![Croissant_MLdataset_tool](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Croissant_MLdataset_tool.png)
8 March 2024
Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences DataverseNL
Tools
On 6 March 2024, MLCommons (an Artificial Intelligence engineering consortium) announced the release of Croissant, a metadata format to help standardise machine learning (ML) datasets. The aim of Croissant is to make datasets easily discoverable and usable across tools and platforms. This is highly relevant in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) tasks on FAIR data sustainability and important for Linked Data in general.
![Quantum_LOGO_Quantum-H](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Quantum_LOGO_Quantum-H.png)
1 March 2024
Social Sciences and Humanities Life Sciences DataverseNL
Collaborations Tools
On 20 and 21 February, the QUANTUM project kicked-off in Brussels to officially launch the start of this EU-funded data project. Within the scope of the European Health Data Space, QUANTUM will develop a quality and utility label for health data, to be used by organisations generating and hosting health data, as well as organisations providing access to health data.
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22 December 2023
Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences DataverseNL EASY
FAIR and Open data RDM Collaborations Training & Outreach Consultancy Tools
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.
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11 December 2023
Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences EASY
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.
![BY-COVID-GA-October-2023](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BY-COVID-GA-October-2023.webp)
15 November 2023
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.
![ObituariesMiddleAges Image of handwritten Middle Age obituary texts](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ObituariesMiddleAges.png)
2 November 2023
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.
![Schermafbeelding 2023-10-20 om 09.39.30 A screenshot of the ODISSEI Portal](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Schermafbeelding-2023-10-20-om-09.39.30.png)
20 October 2023
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.
![Clariah_tech&dataDay](https://dans.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Clariah_techdataDay.webp)
12 October 2023
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.