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Come to the Open Hour for the Social Sciences and Humanities community! Get all your questions answered during our live Q&A every Monday morning.

Researchers and research data repositories around the world have made efforts to align their practices with the CARE Principles. In this workshop, we will examine how the Ethics processes at Dutch universities facilitate the implementation of the CARE principles and how it can be further aligned.

Are you curious about the project ideas that were submitted for the NWO TDCC Challenge Call 2025 in the Social Sciences and Humanities domain? Attend these online sessions, where you will hear pitches of each project idea, engage in discussion, and even team up and join a project! Open to anyone passionate about open data, software, and innovative research practices in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

On 20 May at SURF Research Day, several DANS colleagues will be actively contributing to the programme. Nicole Emmenegger and Nils Arlinghaus will lead a session on data interoperability in the social sciences and humanities, Mike Priddy will guide a hands-on workshop on supporting FAIR practices with FAIR-Aware, and Renรฉ van Horik will explore the infrastructure behind persistent identifiers.

In this workshop we will dive into these reasons and the pros and cons of sharing fieldwork data, and how to share them. Through case studies from various disciplines within the social sciences and humanities and input from trainers and participants we aim to establish best practices.

This course offers an introduction on beginner level for data professionals and those who support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data. It consists of two days of face to face teaching, complemented by online learning materials and weekly assignments. You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of all of these components. The in person teaching sessions will take place on Thursday 17 April 2025 (SURF, Utrecht) and Monday 2 June 2025 (Health-RI, Utrecht). The teaching will be in Dutch.

OpenRefine is a free desktop application that has been described as 'a power tool for working with messy data'.โ€ฏ OpenRefine is most useful for cleaning and standardising data in a simple tabular format such as a spreadsheet. Therefore, it can be especially useful to researchers in the social sciences and humanities, who are increasingly sharing their research materials and are concerned about others making sense of them.

DataverseNL celebrates its 10th anniversary. We celebrate this with an inspiring event where we look back at a decade of Open Access together and look ahead to the future.