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Over the past year, DANS has taken important steps to promote open science and ensure the sustainable management of research data. It was a year characterised by innovation, collaboration, and milestones, ranging from infrastructure improvements to new initiatives designed to enhance support for archiving, publishing, and reusing data. We reflect with satisfaction on a productive 2024.

Users of the DANS Data Stations and DataverseNL can now add a ROR ID to their affiliation.

A new version of the ODISSEI Portal, the place to find social science datasets in the Netherlands, was launched this week, in which important steps have been made in terms of metadata.

As of 2 December 2024, EASY will no longer be accessible to external users. Datasets can be found and deposited in one of the domain-specific DANS Data Stations.ย 

The DANS Open Day, held on 14 November 2024, was a great success, bringing together researchers, data professionals, and policymakers to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of open science and research data management. Hosted at the DANS office in The Hague, the event highlighted the organisation’s role in advancing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data practices.

A new user guide is available for users of DataverseNL. The guide has been simplified and refers users better to where they need to go for support and obtaining user permissions.

On November 7, World Digital Preservation Day, the new NDE Netwerk Certificering (Network Certification) was launched. Become a member and discuss the trustworthiness and sustainability of your archive!

On World Digital Preservation Day we celebrate all things to do with digital preservation across the world. This year, the dayโ€™s theme is Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities. We want to celebrate today by shining some light on the recent community-driven developments in the way repositories are defined and described. On this topic, the UK Data Service has written a blog for the Digital Preservation Coalition in collaboration with the CoreTrustSeal Board, of which DANS is also a member. In this post, we highlight the blog discussion and bring it to our own audience, also in a Dutch translation, to bridge the gap between the international and national community.