Data Horror Escape Room
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Title
Data Horror Escape Room
Subject
Gamified informatics education focused on Research Data Management (RDM), data ethics, and the importance of open science practices.
Description
An interactive, narrative-driven game where players must navigate various "horror" scenarios caused by poor data management. The resource highlights common pitfalls like lack of backups, poor file naming, and metadata omissions through a series of puzzles and logic challenges.
Creator
The website and the puzzles were created by a collaborative team from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. They were inspired by the ideas of and the escape room created by Lieke Mulder and Merel Talbi.
Publisher
Data Horror Escape Room 2020 CC-BY-SA-4.0
Date
2024
Rights
Free to use Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Data Horror Escape Room 2020 CC-BY-SA-4.0
Data Horror Escape Room 2020 CC-BY-SA-4.0
Format
Online
Language
English
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Collection
Citation
The website and the puzzles were created by a collaborative team from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. They were inspired by the ideas of and the escape room created by Lieke Mulder and Merel Talbi.
, “Data Horror Escape Room,” TinkerOER, accessed April 18, 2026, https://tinkeroer.ucd.ie/items/show/39.