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In medical research, data files often need to be destroyed after a certain period of time. It is now possible to document the maximum period that data is kept (retention period) in DataverseNL and the DANS Data Stations.

Applying FAIR principles to qualitative data requires a careful balancing act between making data available for reuse, protecting respondents’ privacy and staying true to your epistemological beliefs. Data Stewards from Maastricht University have written a data story on this.

Cultural heritage practitioners such as librarians, archivists, curators, and data stewards as well as researchers, scholars, and practitioners collaborating with them, are invited to contribute to a Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) that focuses on GLAM collections as data. DANS Research Data Management Specialist, Deborah Thorpe, is a guest editor for this special collection.

The FAIR-IMPACT project has produced a list of 16 requirements for creating a EOSC compliant PID policy for PID managers. This list is open for community review.

The paper on Croissant*, a metadata format that helps standardise machine learning (ML) datasets, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 8th Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM).

We are pleased to invite the research support community, policymakers, and researchers to our upcoming Open Day on 14 November 2024.ย Join us for an insightful event dedicated to promoting Open Data & Open Science and its principles.

DANS is proudly providing one day in the study-abroad programme of the iSchool of the University of Washington, Seattle. Since many years Professor Trent Hill is the driving and caring enabler for this honours student programme, and DANS next to many other institutions in The Netherlands is a regular host for a group of vary enthusiastic and open-minded students.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the CESSDA Main Office in Bergen, the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) organised a conference alongside the biannual Service Provider Forum and General Assembly meeting.