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16 May 2023

Twentieth research institution joins DataverseNL

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From 1 May, the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Amsterdam UMC) will use DataverseNL to publish their research data. This makes it the twentieth Dutch research institution to use our data service.

22 February 2023

DANS involved in two NWO National Roadmap projects

Social Sciences and Humanities Life Health and Medical Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences

FAIR and Open data RDM Collaborations

On Monday 20 February, NWO brought the news that nine projects will receive 140 million euros to set up or improve large-scale research infrastructure. The Dutch research field jointly set its priorities for investment in large-scale research infrastructure for the next ten years in the so called National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure. DANS is involved in two of these projects: SSHOC-NL and LTER-LIFE.

26 October 2022

Socioeconomic data in the context of the BY-COVID project – An update after the project’s first year.

Social Sciences and Humanities Life Health and Medical Sciences

Collaborations

A milestone has been reached in the first year of the BY-COVID project. Over 600 COVID-19-related studies from the social sciences and humanities (SSH), harvested from the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) are added in the COVID-19 Data Portal. Also, BY-COVID had its first General Assembly this month, which highlighted the important role of socioeconomic data for infectious disease research, and for responding to public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

14 September 2022

Thematic DCCs will strengthen digital competences in three science domains

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The formation of three science-wide Digital Competence Centres has started. As a first step, the Governing Board of NWO has agreed to allocate a total of 4.5 million euros for the appointment of network coordinators. They will strengthen data intensive research together with experts and infrastructures within their research domain.

14 September 2022

DANS & NIOO start pilot: data infrastructure for sustainable and advanced use of ecological data

Life Health and Medical Sciences

Collaborations

DANS and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) – both part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – are joining forces and starting a pilot project to make existing ecological data suitable for advanced data use, both now and in the future.

15 June 2022

FAIR and metadata: conjoined twins! A workshop on FAIR and (geospatial) metadata.

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FAIR and Open data RDM Collaborations Training & Outreach

To reach a common picture on how FAIR and metadata are connected and what guidance can be given to properly provide metadata in order to claim your (spatial) data are FAIR, the Netherlands Geodetic Commission (NCG) organises a workshop for scientists and data stewards working with geospatial data. The workshop shall take place in the afternoon of the 7th of July at the WUR Campus (Omnia building) in Wageningen.

11 April 2022

BY-COVID project releases factsheet and newsletter

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FAIR and Open data Training & Outreach

BY-COVID released a factsheet including information about the key goals, activities, and outcomes of the project. Subscribe to the newsletter to keep up to date with the project.

8 March 2022

Automatic depositing of data leads to growth spurt

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In just under four years, the number of deposited datasets has more than doubled to 200,000. In part, this has been made possible by the ‘machine-to-machine’ depositing of data, without human intervention. We have made strict agreements with the various institutions for this automatic depositing of data.

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