Esther Plomp

Postdoc/Research Developer

Working together with the University of Aruba colleagues to strengthen the Social Sciences and Humanities research agenda through application for funding, development and implemention of seminars for research skills; and by conducting and/or supervising research.

Software Sustainability Fellow

This project focuses on facilitating contributions to open source/science communities, particularly on the differences between paid versus volunteer contributions. The project will focus on The Turing Way, but any recommendations will likely apply to other community projects as well.

eScience Center Fellow

We need to shift the criteria of success from (the number of) research articles published to include more research objects into research evaluation. This is easier to do if they become as visible as research articles. This project aims to improve that visibility and provide incentives for researchers to share their research objects such as software. I co-organised a conference session on this topic and worked together with the eScienceCenter to make the analyses scripts available on GitHub.

Data Steward

As a Data Steward I was responsible for research support at the Faculty, providing support for researchers on writing data management plans (DMPs), data storage and sharing solutions, managing personal and confidential data, and increasing awareness of open science practices. In the 2020/2021 academic year I have been coordinating the online programming workshops that are hosted at TU Delft thanks to the Carpentries. Next to that I was involved in the organisation of other trainings with a focus on Open Science and Research Data Management. Together with the Research Support Team at TU Delft Library and the other Data Stewards at TU Delft I wrote blog posts (http://openworking.wordpress.com) and papers about the Data Stewards activities. I was responsible for the development of the Faculty’s policy on research data, and I coordinated the Faculty's Open Science team (2021-2024). I was also part of the board of the Open Science Community Delft (2023-2024). I have also been involved in the Electronic Lab Note (ELN) pilot at the TU Delft that introduced RSpace annd eLABnext licenses at the university, as well as a pilot for BioRender.

Open Research Ambassador

As an Open Research Ambassador I promote Open Science practises in the the isotope/bioarchaeology community. In 2021 I co-organised the IsoArcH event on Open Science.

Open Research Calendar Team Member

I'm one of the founding members of the Open Research Calendar, a community-powered shared calendar that enables interested users to keep track of open research events or promote their events through a Google calendar, Twitter and a newsletter.

Project member and Working Group Member (Book Dash) of The Turing Way

The Turing Way is a handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science, as well as a community that promotes these practices. My contributions are primarily found in the Guide to Reproducible Research. I was the Book Dash Working Group Chair (2024), and have been a returning Planning Committee member (2022-2024).

EU Regional Coordinator

As a regional coordinator I am part of an Open Knowledge mapping exercise of various relevant parties involved in open knowledge, responsible for organising an event for the EU region during Open Data Week, and for facilitating regional activities and connections within the network.

Advisory Board Member

I provide input on ORCA’s strategy and activities, particularly from my experience in the EU as well as a member of several grass roots Open Science communities.

Other Community Involvements

Article: Hall, S.M. et al., 2024. Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events, PLOS Computational Biology DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011797

Article: Silverstein, P., et al., 2024. A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science, Research Integrity and Peer Review DOI:10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5

Article: Bennet, A., et al., 2023. A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognizing Team Infrastructure Roles, Journal of Trial and Error DOI:10.36850/mr8

Article: Plomp, E., 2020. Going Digital: Persistent Identifiers for Research Samples, Resources and Instruments, Data Science Journal, 19(1), DOI:10.5334/dsj-2020-046

Article: Plomp, E., N. Dintzner, M. Teperek, A. Dunning 2019. Cultural obstacles to research data management and sharing at TU Delft. UKSG Insights, 32(1), DOI:10.1629/uksg.484

Workshop: Open Data, Speaker for the AREN Local Network Lead Training Program (2024), Open Data: Principles and Tools DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10994248, Open Data: Benefits and Challenges DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10994160, Reusing Open Data DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11862588, Sharing Open Data DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11862672

Workshop: Digital Research Academy – Research Data Management 101 , Co-organiser (29-02-2024), DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10651598

Workshop: Recognising supporting roles, Co-organiser (13-04-2023), DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7821114

Workshop: CODOBio Open Science Workshop, Co-organiser (13-01-2022)

Workshop: Good Practices for Collaboration (The Turing Way), Open Publishing Fest / Open Science FAIR Co-organiser (15-11-2021 & 21-09-2021)

Webinar series: RDA/ESIP Physical Samples Webinar Series, Co-organiser (30-06 – 07-10-2021)

Plomp, E. and E. Karoune Removing Barriers to Reproducible Research – Poster, BABAO (16-09-2022) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7079174

Plomp, E., Open Science Buffet, TNW Science Day (30-06-2022) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6752865

Gould van Praag, C., B. Kennedy, A. Lautarescu, and E. Plomp, Open Research Calendar, Open Science Conference (17-02-2021) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4576812

Plomp, E., Persistent identifiers for physical aspects of research, International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 (27-11-2021) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4293408

Plomp, E., From FAIRytale to reality: Research Data Management put into practice, NWOlife 2019 (29-05-2019) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2667392

• R / GitHub (basic)
• Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Access & Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Reader/Acrobat
• Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Slack, Mattermost, Discord

• Fluent: English, Dutch
• Intermediate: Papiamento
• Basic: French, Spanish (reading)

• Chairing, taking minutes
• Interviewing
• Editing, Scientific Writing
• Policy writing

• Planning and organsing
• Result-oriented
• Analytical
• Innovative
• Flexible

Mapping Openness in Europe: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation (30-10-2024)

Open Science Buffet (28-06-2022)

Open Science should not be a hobby (16-05-2022)

Moving Open Science forward at the institutional/departmental level (24-01-2022)

On being an Open Life Science programme mentor in 2021, Open Life Science Programme (04-01-2022)

Diversity and Inclusion in Research, Technology and Design, Delft Open Science Community (29-10-2021)

Publishing a Data Article (17-02-2022)

Managing and Sharing Data in 2021 (17-09-2021)

Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events, Code for Society (22-06-2021)

How can you make research data accessible? Software Sustainability Institute (01-03-2021)

FAIRsharing: how to contribute to standards? (10-07-2020)

Making software FAIR? Open Working (16-12-2021)

Publishing articles in 2021 (19-11-2020)

Quality is key (01-09-2021)

How will we judge scientists in 2030? #wetenschapper2030 (27-05-2019)

Scholarly Communications and Publishing Peer Review Workshop, Open Publishing - TU Delft (15-03-2024)

Overview 2024 Esther (21-11-2024)

Another year over! (31-12-2022)

A Data Steward journey (22-04-2022)

Gridding through 2021 (24-12-2021)

PhD in 4 - 5, 6, 7, Data Horror Stories, (27-10-2021)

The Open Archaeobotanist Guest Blog - Dr Esther Plomp, The Open Archaeobotanist, (30-04-2021)

A year in the life of a Data Steward, Open Working (04-02-2020)

The Turing Way Book Dash at TU Delft (November 2024) (20-11-2024)

Cultivating Openness: From Community Resources to Institutional Acceptance, Upstream (19-11-2024)

How to create institutional support for Open Science initiatives (AKA your ‘hobby projects’), without burning out? (31-10-2024)

The Turing Way Book Dash at TU Delft (31-05-2023)

Workshop on FAIR for Physical Objects – Summary and Conclusions, TDCC NES (06-03-2023)

Barcamp Open Science 2022: Connecting and Strengthening the Communities!, ZBW MediaTalk (13-04-2022)

The Turing Way Book Dash (Online) (18-11-2021)

Teaching Carpentries Workshops Online, RDAP Association Blog (21-04-2021)

Research Data Alliance Plenary 16 – Esther’s perspective (23-11-2020)

15 Tips for Running a Great Online Event (03-11-2020)

Celebrating 4TU.ResearchData’s Role in Fostering Open Science (06-10-2020)

Online Genomics Workshop @TUDelft (02-10-2020)

Remote ReproHacking (05-08-2020)

Movement-building from home, a participant view (20-05-2020)

Online Conferencing (15-05-2020)

Should we Zoom in? Things you need to know (09-04-2020)

VU Library Live talk show and podcast on the academic reward system (25-03-2020)

Turing Way Bookdash (27-02-2020)

Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science 2020 (13-01-2020)

Open to Whom? A gender perspective on open science (25-10-2020)

TU Delft’s First Genomics Data Carpentry (07-06-2019)

Review on workshops to make your data more FAIR: some practical tools and suggestions (03-06-2019)

Open Science Barcamp Berlin 2019 (25-04-2019)

Data Champion kick off meeting (14-01-2019)