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Ellen Leenarts (DANS) recently published a blog about the blog series of OpenAIRE. Main elements of this are the NOADs who share their experiences about starting Research Data Management support for institutes, such as universities and universities of applied sciences.

DANS has developed an online self-assessment tool to educate and raise awareness of users on making their data FAIR before depositing it into a repository.

If you want to store digital data in a sustainable way, knowledge about file formats is indispensable. A white paper highlights the plans for a guide in this area. Heritage institutions are invited to comment on this.

The RDA Global Adoption Week will take place from 15 to 19 June, a week full of interesting webinars. DANS is one of the parties involved.

World Environment Day, hosted by Colombia this 2020, is the most renowned day for environmental action. Since 1974, it has been celebrated every year on 5 June: engaging governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue.

Reusing data created by others holds great promise in research, but little is known about how users actually search for data.

Within the ZonMw program “Enabling Technologies Hotels”, DANS operates as a specialist facility for managing, sharing and storing data. Together with Amsterdam UMC and Philips Medical Systems, DANS is embarking on an ambitious project to share raw MRI data for AI and other advanced analysis via the DANS infrastructure.

The deadline to nominate for the Dutch Data Prize 2020 has been extended to July 1st. Are you a researcher with a good example of shared data? Or do you know someone who is? Nominate yourself, another researcher or a research group for the Dutch Data Prize 2020.