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We welcome you to register for two workshops this spring, each covering different aspects of the topic of hard-to-share in the social sciences and humanities. 

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Upcoming funding opportunity for collaborative projects solving challenges with FAIR Data and Software in the Social Sciences & Humanities.

Make your experiences heard: ‘Untangling FAIR implementation in the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities’, one of the TDCC-SSH Bottleneck Projects, would like to hear from you!

DANS was invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Amsterdam focused on depositing interviews and oral history data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The materials presented in this event can now be viewed and reused via Zenodo. 

The first article in a new themed journal issue on ‘Amplifying GLAM collections’ discusses the FAIR Photos Project, with enriched metadata published as open data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. Read how this project contributed to data reusability.

To deposit data in the DANS Data Stations, you need to create an account. Previously, it was already possible to log in using an institutional account via SURFconext, GitHub, or even Google. Now, you can also use ORCIDs, the unique personal identifiers for researchers.

This project tackles bottlenecks in sharing sensitive research data in the social sciences and humanities. A key feature of this initiative is a series of three in-person workshops, designed to give researchers the tools and insights needed to share sensitive data responsibly.

A new version of the ODISSEI Portal, the place to find social science datasets in the Netherlands, was launched this week, in which important steps have been made in terms of metadata.