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The BRIDGE Conference took place on 20 and 21 March in Bucharest, Romania, bringing together a diverse group of researchers, data managers, and policymakers from various domains. The aim of the conference was to promote interdisciplinary research and cross-domain integration by improving practices around data management, sharing, and reuse. This was achieved through six panel discussions on topics such as discipline-specific challenges, developments within EOSC, and data stewardship — with DANS participating in the latter two.

FAIR-Aware is an online tool designed to help researchers, data stewards and other data professionals evaluate their understanding of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) guiding principles, and subsequently improve their skills in implementing relevant practices.

We’re pleased to announce that DANS will be hosting the position of ‘RDA in The Netherlands Community Development Manager 2025 – 2026’. Kim Ferguson (she/her) of DANS’ Expert Section will be taking on this role until the end of 2026. 

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DANS recently published the guidebook ‘Making 3D Scholarly Editions Reusable: A step-by-step guide for depositing FAIR 3DSEs’. The report guides researchers to make their 3DSEs FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and to deposit them within the DANS Data Stations or other repositories, and sets out best practices in this area for 3DSEs. 

From 1 March, the KNAW Humanities Cluster has been using the research data repository DataverseNL, followed by Zuyd University of Applied Sciences from 1 April. This brings the number of participating institutes to twenty-two.

We welcome you to register for two workshops this spring, each covering different aspects of the topic of hard-to-share in the social sciences and humanities. 

Since the publication of our guide Making Qualitative Data Reusable in early 2023, the  Short Guidebook For Researchers And Data Stewards Working With Qualitative Data has been viewed over 12.000 times. We want your feedback to improve and update this guide.

A newly-published data paper in the themed journal issue on ‘Ampifying GLAM collections’ presents a rich overview of the ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935-1950) from NIOD Digitised’ dataset in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Read all about the dataset, the methods for data curation and sharing and its reuse potential.