Dr. Simon van Rekum

Work at ZHAW

Position

Staff member at Research & Infrastructure

Focus

• Open Science
• Data Management
• History of Knowledge
• Language Studies

Experience

• Scientific fellow and Lecturer
  University of Zurich
  2017 - 2022
• Visiting Researcher at the Institutt for arkeologi konservering og historie
  University of Oslo
  2018 - 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / History
  University of Zurich
  2017 - 2023
• MA / History, Linguistics
  University of Zurich
  2013 - 2015

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0000-1535-4782

Projects

• Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Team member / ongoing
• Developing Data Anonymization Solutions and Services / Project leader / ongoing
• Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Team member / completed
• Open Research Data in Swiss Movement Laboratories / Team member / completed
• Swiss-AL: Linguistic Open-Research-Data Practices for Applied Sciences / Team member / completed
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Co-project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Haas, M. C. et al. (2025) 'Open research data in human movement analysis : Swiss-initiated-guidelines for broader scientific communities', Data in Brief, 61(111884). doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111884.

Books, peer-reviewed

van Rekum, S. (2026) Ontologies of titles : office-person relationships and social taxonomies in 13th-century Norway and Iceland. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004755659.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Haas, M. C. et al. (2024) 'Development of open science guidelines for movement laboratories', in Annual Conference of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC), Oslo, Norway, 11-14 September 2024. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-31489.

Other publications

• Daudrich, A. et al. (2025) Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten : Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Daten in der Sekundärnutzung bei studentischen Arbeiten. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15688758.
• Kapossy, B. et al. (2025) ORD Task Force Social Sciences and Humanities data report. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15268746.
• Daudrich, A. et al. (2024) Checkliste: Mindestkriterien zur Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.11385459.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Haas, M. C. et al. (2026) 'Guidelines for open research data in movement sciences', in Current Issues in Sport Science. Bern Open Publishing, p. 058. doi: 10.36950/2026.2ciss058.
• Haas, M. et al. (2025) 'Fostering the potential of open research data in movement analysis by means of guidelines for data sharing', in Gait & Posture. Elsevier, pp. S15–S16. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2025.01.055.
• Sommer, B. et al. (2025) 'The use of 'Open Research Data Guidelines for Movement Laboratories' for sharing normative gait data', in Gait & Posture. Elsevier, p. S31. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2025.01.076.

Research data

Haas, Michelle C.; Sommer, Bettina B.; van Rekum, Simon; Moerman, Felix; Graf, Eveline, 2024. MoveD – open research data guidelines for movement laboratories. Zenodo. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13347388

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