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In February and March 2023 a new round of the course Essentials 4 Data Support will commence, with in-person and online dates and given in English. The course is offered by Research Data Netherlands (RDNL).

Contributing towards increased knowledge about training on European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is what the train-the-trainer training focussed on. EOSC is an ambitious vision to be a (federated) ‘system of systems’, enabling access to (research) data, services, software, and more throughout Europe.

DANS founder Dr Peter Doorn has received the royal distinction Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau from the hands of mayor Carla Breuer of his hometown Voorhout (municipality of Teylingen). He received the distinction for his many years of personal achievements, in particular as founder and former director of DANS. The ceremony took place at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, during the FAIR Data Day.

DANS has, in collaboration with the The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and The Portuguese Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP), contributed to the EOSC Synergy project where we were dealing with the outputs coming from four different automated FAIR assessment tools: F-UJI, Fair EVA, FAIR Evaluation Services and FAIR Enough. 

DANS Data Station Manager Ricarda Braukmann wrote a blog about PIDs and why you should love them for ODISSEI. Persistent Identifiers or PIDs allow us to uniquely identify digital research resources like publications and datasets, ensuring the resources remain accessible over time. The ODISSEI FAIR Support team has published a blog post that takes you through the concept of PIDs, and how PIDs help make our research FAIR. The post also explains the different kinds of PIDs that currently exist for publications, datasets, people, organisations and grants.

Read the complete blog post here.

From the ARIADNEplus project, which links archaeological data from several European countries, the ARIADNE Virtual Research Lab has been launched. The lab provides researchers with new tools to aggregate, analyse and process data from the ARIADNE infrastructure.



Digital technologies contribute to the accessibility of cultural heritage. Yet there is still a lot to gain. The MuseIT project aims to achieve more inclusiveness in the protection of cultural heritage. DANS cooperates in this project.  

The FAIR Data Day event, taking place on 29 November at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht, focuses on the benefits of data reuse in everyday research practice. Inspirational keynote speakers and interactive workshops on practical examples of FAIR implementation will give the audience plenty of food for thought. Two of the eight selected workshops will be co-hosted by DANS.