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The new edition of E-data & Research features an interview with Henk Wals. E-data spoke with him about the new five-year programme of DANS, in which collaboration takes centre stage.

Read the success stories about sharing and reusing data in the latest E-data & Research. In this issue you will find, among other things: vangoghworldwide.org facilitates research, ASReview software searches through digital data faster and KansenKaart.nl sketches a rich picture of equal opportunities in the Netherlands.

Curious about the possibilities and challenges with regard to geodata in relation to the European Data Strategy? Please join us at the online NCG workshop on February 18. Registration is still possible.

On February 10 and 24, the second edition of the Latin America and Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop will take place, with DANS participating in the panel ‘Scientific data management in Health and the Environment’.

The news article was published on the OpenAIRE website by Gerda McNeill (University Vienna) as part of the Task Force Research Data Management (RDM). The Taskforce RDM is led by DANS.

On 25 March, three handy Dutch tools are launched simultaneously to keep digital information sustainably accessible. These are ‘Wegwijzer Certification’, ‘Wegwijzer Voorkeursformaten’ and ‘Wegwijzer Duurzaamheidsbeleid’. As of this year, the ‘Wegwijzer Certification’ is maintained by DANS.

With seven academic journals in the field of social sciences and humanities, the open access platform Openjournals.nl was launched today. The platform is made possible by a collaboration between the KNAW, NWO and the OPUS Foundation. DANS strongly encourages this initiative.

On 18 January 2021, the Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC (DICE) project was officially launched with an online kick-off meeting. The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the EU. DANS is also involved in the project.