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README

This website and repository holds the Research Cockpit Playbook. It is set up to be the place where we can share and collaboratively evolve in an open format what the concept of the Research Cockpit is and how it can evolve with parties within TU/e and input from the broader research (support) community.

The Playbook contents itself can be found in the separate file: RESEARCH_COCKPIT_PLAYBOOK.md.

Note

If you are a student or researcher looking for the Research Cockpit itself, you can find it at https://cockpit.research.tue.nl.

Status

Status: v0.1 draft. A living document. Corrections, extensions, and forks welcomed

We are actively looking for feedback and input on content, framing and scoping to build towards a v1.0 release of this playbook.

For v0.1 the approach is consciously to provide a large variety of aspects involved in establishing the Research Cockpit to elicit feedback on the scope. Feedback on what should be removed or captured elsewhere is as valid as feedback and input on what you wish to have more detail on.

v0.1 writing methodology

In the period of building and establishing the Research Cockpit at Eindhoven University of Technology a large internal knowledge base was built out. The internal knowledge base spans conceptual thinking, process design elements, highly detailed configuration documentation and by now adds up to hundreds of pages. The methodology for writing the v0.1 draft was by having an Agentic AI system (Claude Code) compile various versions of the playbook from a local mirror of this internal documentation repository. Parts of the v0.1 playbook were written by hand while other parts were hand-picked from these AI-compiled versions of a playbook.

Summary

The Research Cockpit within Eindhoven University of Technology is a central portal for researchers to navigate research support and infrastructure. The Research Cockpit Playbook serves as open reference for the design of the Research Cockpit as replicable concept. At Eindhoven University of Technology this concept is called the Research Cockpit, at other universities it might have it's own name. Read the RESEARCH_COCKPIT_PLAYBOOK.md for more details.

Brief history

  • 2023 - Concept definition within context of Research Data Infrastructure program.

  • 2024 - Initial build-out & DMP/ERB go-live.

  • 2025 - Adoption phase and more process onboarding (Data Agreements, Research Contracts, pre-DPIA & more).

  • 2026 - Further system integrations & evolved project-based UI/UX.

    • Playbook initialized.

Contributions

Any type of feedback, input or questions are welcome. These can be transparently submitted through issues on this repository.