Seventh Handbook Hackathon
On November 27, 2025, all authors participated in the seventh hackathon for the Research Support Handbook. For this hackathon, we focused on Consolidating content and adding new content.
Overview of results
We updated the information about Pure and about data and software registration in Pure (link to LibGuide manuals instead of PDFs, information about Elsevier no longer supporting DataMonitor).
We created two practical pages related to the RDM Support Desk:
- General information about the RDM Support Desk
- Landing page for requesting access to datasets
Regarding videos in the Research Support Handbook: We stored relevant videos in Panopto and embedded them in our website from there, replacing the YouTube videos. This helps us maintain all video material in a central place and another advantage is that we don’t get suggestions for other videos once a video has ended, as on YouTube.
We expanded the Research Software topic by referring to related information in the Research Support Handbook.
We continued working on the topic de-identifying data, but this is still in progress.
A few updates have been done in tools documentation for Yoda, ADA and SciStor before, during and after the hackathon. We have improved navigation in the tools section as well.
Finally, a new release of the Handbook has been created on Zenodo.
Hackathon Issues and Pull Requests
- Data and software registration updates: Issue #250, PR #621 and PR #623; PR #627 for updates in the general information about Pure. Note that the information about Pure has been transferred from topics to tools see Issue #675 and see PR #678.
- RDM Support Desk: Issue #588 and PR #610 for the information page and Issue #589 and PR #631 for the landing page with information about requesting access to datasets.
- Research software information: Issue #410 and PR #624.
- Topic de-identifying data: Issue #492