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The DCC Spring Training Days will celebrate its 5th edition in 2025. The workshops will take place on various Tuesdays between April and June at SURF Utrecht. DANS is responsible for three workshops on Research Data Management and FAIR Data.  

DANS has been a part of the CoreTrustSeal Board since the start, and we are happy to announce that this involvement will continue in the coming period.

The Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) consortium, of which DANS is a co-founder, is committed to strengthening the profession of data professionals in the Netherlands over the next four years. Together with SURF, 4TU.ResearchData, and Health-RI, we are developing a national training and community platform.

 

Today, on ‘International Croissant Day’ we look at the developments of Croissant ML, a metadata format designed to standardise machine learning (ML) datasets. What is new and what does the near future foresee?

From February 1 2025, DANS will no longer actively communicate via X (formerly Twitter). While our account will remain available as an archive of past posts, we’ve chosen to focus on platforms that better align with our values and community engagement. 

DANS is committed to preserving research data in the long term and offers guidance in various ways, including through documentation with comprehensive guidelines. Recommendations on file formats are available on our website, and these guidelines have recently been updated in several respects.

On January 20, the European Commission has granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). This recognition highlights EHRI’s vital role in safeguarding the historical record of the Holocaust and its ongoing relevance to modern society and is a major milestone in Holocaust studies. 

The first article in a new themed journal issue on ‘Amplifying GLAM collections’ discusses the FAIR Photos Project, with enriched metadata published as open data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. Read how this project contributed to data reusability.