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The European Data Protection Day is the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 on the protection of personal data. It is the first legally binding international data protection law, and is celebrated every year, on 28 January, by the 47 countries of the Council of Europe and the EU institutions. As a researcher, you are responsible for protecting the privacy of data you collect during your scientific research. We would like to help you get started on how best to do this. This article gives you a quick overview.

In the context of European Data Protection Day, we want to highlight a new publication from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, on Zenodo that is useful for researchers collecting data. This PDF is a kind of checklist or workflow that researchers can refer to when it comes to data privacy and research.

DANS wishes you a merry christmas and happy newyear

In the dynamic landscape of research data, 2023 proved to be a year of remarkable developments for DANS. From the launch of Data Stations to participation in international projects, here’s an overview of the highlights.

From 11 December 2023, it will no longer be possible to deposit data in EASY. Researchers, groups of researchers and data professionals can archive and publish their data in one of the four domain-specific DANS Data Stations. There is a Data Station for Archaeology, Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical & Technical Sciences, and a Data Station for Life Sciences.

From 1 December, Erasmus Medical Centre has been using the research data repository DataverseNL, followed by Utrecht University of Applied Sciences from 1 January. This brings the number of participating institutes to twenty-two.

The DANS Data Station for the Life Sciences, enabling researchers and data professionals in the Medical, Health, and Green Life Sciences to digitally archive and publish research data, is now live.

Regularly, while curating datasets, we come across gems that deserve to be highlighted. This certainly applies to the dataset containing a geomorphogenetic map of Nijmegen-North, the Netherlands, which is available in the Data Station Archaeology. This map reveals the palaeogeographic and soil data of the area and offers a wealth of information.

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.