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

The European-funded SSHOC project facilitates trainers in the social sciences and humanities with a community for exchanging knowledge and experience. Ellen Leenarts, Research Data Management Specialist at DANS, wrote about it in the June issue of E-data & Research.

Recently, the vacancy for a new director at DANS was announced. The vacancy is to replace interim director Henk Wals, who will remain at DANS until April 2022.

Knowledge institutions, research funders and governments must focus on the wishes and needs of scientists when improving storage and availability of research data. Close collaboration among these parties and researchers is essential. This is what the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) advocates in its report 'Storage and availability of data for research – from intentions to implementation', published on 20 May 2021.

Europe offers many initiatives for researchers and data professionals to share publications, research data and research data management knowledge. OpenAIRE is one of the examples.

This year, DANS is launching domain-specific Data Stations, which are places where researchers from various scientific disciplines can store, share and publish their data online, both during their research and beyond.

Over a course of one month, between 6 and 25 May 2021, over 50 reviewers from around the world attended the first CoreTrustSeal Assembly of Reviewer Workshop series, organised by the teams of the FAIRsFAIR project and CoreTrustSeal. DANS is involved as a coordinator and project partner in the FAIRsFAIR project, and through participation in the board of CoreTrustSeal.

A video instruction on the FAIR-Aware tool is now available online on the DANS YouTube account.

On June 7, the workshop ‘Riding the Next Wave of Research Data, Leveraging the COVID-19 response towards advancing data interoperability’ takes place. Ingrid Dillo, deputy-director of DANS and Co-Chair of the RDA Council, is one of the invited speakers.

Read the success stories about sharing and reusing research data in the latest E-data & Research. In this issue you will find, among other things: Searching for werewolves and mermaids, A gold mine of data mined from Russian state archives and Openjournals.co.uk facilitates Diamond Open Access.

On 20 May 2021, Ricarda Braukmann (Data Station Manager Social Sciences at DANS) presented an updated version of the report on RDA and its potential for the social sciences at IASSIST Global Virtual Conference.