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15 November 2023

Retrospect on workshop on GDPR issues related to infectious disease research

Social Sciences and Humanities

FAIR and Open data Training & Outreach

The BY-COVID project’s second Annual General Assembly took place in Barcelona on October 9-10. DANS co-organised the workshop ‘GDPR – common challenges when mobilising data’, aiming to gather experiences, challenges, and solutions to GDPR-related issues when mobilising data for infectious disease research. 

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2 November 2023

Let’s celebrate World Digital Preservation Day

Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology

FAIR and Open data

At DANS, we take pride in preserving scientific data. On World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD23), we highlight the importance of taking good care of research data. 

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20 October 2023

New version of the ODISSEI Portal contains enriched metadata

Social Sciences and Humanities

FAIR and Open data Collaborations Tools

This week a new version of the ODISSEI Portal is launched. This is the fourth release since the first prototype which was launched in September 2022. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability, and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands.

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17 October 2023

FAIR data management in practice, the GGDC’s data as an example

DataverseNL

FAIR and Open data RDM

The Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) publishes their data through DataverseNL. One of their datasets, the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) has already been downloaded more than 110,000 times.

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12 October 2023

CLARIAH Tech & Data Day: FAIR data in the Dutch humanities

Social Sciences and Humanities

FAIR and Open data RDM Collaborations Tools

On 28 September, DANS hosted the second CLARIAH Tech & Data Day, which focussed on FAIR data management in the humanities. Here is a recap of the day.

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26 September 2023

The ELSST Thesaurus has been updated

Social Sciences and Humanities

Collaborations Tools

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. In September 2023, the latest version of the ELSST was released. Find out about some of the most important changes here.

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29 August 2023

Report published on how socioeconomic data can contribute to infectious disease research

Social Sciences and Humanities

Collaborations

In May, DANS co-organized the ‘BY-COVID Workshop on the integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness’ in The Hague. A joint report by workshop participants and other experts has now been published, describing the presentations, discussions during the event, and providing a roadmap for how socioeconomic data can contribute to studies of vaccine effectiveness as well as other infectious disease research moving forward.

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4 August 2023

DANS rewards student helper with ticket to IASSIST African Chapter

RDM Training & Outreach Consultancy

In May and June 2023 the University of Pretoria, South Africa held their annual CODATA-RDA School for Research Data Science (SoRDS). This online school, part of the international SoRDS network, focuses on building foundational data science skills amongst early career researchers in low/middle-income countries. The schools are staffed by volunteer instructors and a small number of student helpers to support the learners. These dedicated volunteer helpers play a vital role in the success of the schools. To encourage the student helpers and acknowledge the importance of their work, DANS awarded the most active helper with a ticket to the IASSIST African chapter.

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