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
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Co-project leader / completed
• Swiss-AL: Linguistic Open-Research-Data Practices for Applied Sciences / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Haas, M. C., Sommer, B. B., Moerman, F., van Rekum, S., & Graf, E. S. (2025). Open research data in human movement analysis : Swiss-initiated-guidelines for broader scientific communities. Data in Brief, 61(111884). https://doi.org/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. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004755659

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Haas, M. C., Sommer, B., van Rekum, S., Moerman, F., & Graf, E. S. (2024). Development of open science guidelines for movement laboratories. Annual Conference of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC), Oslo, Norway, 11-14 September 2024. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31489

Other publications

Kapossy, B., van Rekum, S., Lurk, T., Schlunegger, S., Mumenthaler, R., Jeney, S., Schmidheiny, K., Hodel, T., Gabriel, R., & Jann, B. (2025). ORD Task Force Social Sciences and Humanities data report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15268746

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Haas, M. C., Sommer, B. B., van Rekum, S., Moerman, F., & Graf, E. S. (2026). Guidelines for open research data in movement sciences [Conference presentation]. Current Issues in Sport Science, 11(2), 58. https://doi.org/10.36950/2026.2ciss058
• Sommer, B., Haas, M., van Rekum, S., Moerman, F., & Graf, E. (2025). The use of ‘Open Research Data Guidelines for Movement Laboratories’ for sharing normative gait data [Conference presentation]. Gait & Posture, 117(Supplement 1), S31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2025.01.076
• Haas, M., Sommer, B., Moerman, F., van Rekum, S., & Graf, E. (2025). Fostering the potential of open research data in movement analysis by means of guidelines for data sharing [Conference presentation]. Gait & Posture, 117(Supplement 1), S15–S16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2025.01.055

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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