News about the sustainable archiving and reuse of data, research data management, open access en more.

OCLC organised a 'mini-symposium' on Linked Data in the OCLC Leiden office on 19 November, 2018. 43 staff members from a range of Dutch academic libraries, cultural heritage institutions, the National Library, the National Archive, the Institute for Sound and Vision and OCLC colleagues based in Europe were brought together to discuss how Linked Data meets interoperability challenges in the online information environment. A blogpost has been written about the event.

After all the festivities at the end of the year where family and friends connect, OpenAIRE together with FREYA will start off the new year with a webinar on digital connections: the Persistent Identifiers. Please join us on January 10th, at 10:00.

This round the awarded projects are from a variety of disciplines, ranging from African Linguistics to Ecology and Digital Humanities. A Small Data Project (KDP in Dutch) receives a maximum of 10.000 euros.

At the event on 10-14 October, DANS visiting fellow and former KNAW Visiting Professor Richard Smiraglia gave a presentation about NARCIS, its classification system and the embedded research occupational classification in it.

iPRES 2019 announces that their Call for Contributions for is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In a rapidly changing digital world, libraries are regularly assessing and innovating their service offering to support researchers work. The webinar on December 14th aims to connect the LIBER community with the EOSCpilot project’s work on skills for stewardship in the EOSC context, through roundtable discussion with the LIBER working group on Digital Skills for Library Staff and Researchers.

This year's Dutch Data Prize is awarded to Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands (PAN), BBMRI-omics and OpenINTEL Active DNS Measurements. The prizes were presented on 28 November by NWO President Stan Gielen at a successful event called ‘Celebrating Data! What’s next?’

On Friday 23 November the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was officially launched, in Vienna, at an event hosted by the Austrian Presidency of the European Union. The inauguration marks the conclusion of a long process of consultation and reflection with stakeholders led by the European Commission.

Visit the DANS open day on open science on February 14, 2019. Together with the Young Academy of the KNAW, Promovendi Netwerk Nederland and the Horizon 2020 project OpenAIRE, DANS organizes this afternoon about research data management, data archiving and data re-use. The day is specially organized for (young) scientists and data librarians.

The need for professionally managing sensitive data is growing in science, therefore we invite you to join our webinar on good practices, tips & tricks, as well as cloud-based services for researchers. The webinar will take place on December 6th 2018, at 14:00.