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The recently canceled RDA plenary meeting will be held in a virtual space. The physical event has been canceled due to the situation surrounding COVID-19. The Keynotes and presentations are provided online.

Research Data Netherlands and Digital Curation Center jointly organize an online course on data management.

Stichting Batavialand has digitized the paper archaeological (ship) excavation documentation of the former maritime depot of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. This special collection is now accessible via EASY. The first series of excavation files from the maritime national collection are published in EASY. This series concerns the files of wrecks that were found during the extraction of the Wieringermeer and the Noordoostpolder.

For the 15th anniversary of DANS, the DANS Data Game was produced. The game was developed especially for researchers in the Netherlands, but has already spread throughout the world. For example, researchers in Brazil, Spain and Finland are currently playing the game.

RDJ, published by Brill publishers and DANS, is a peer reviewed e-only open access journal. Authors can submit their data papers online.

On February 6 2020 DANS organized the first FAIRsFAIR certification workshop, in cooperation with FAIRsFAIR partners UKDA, PANGAEA, CINES and DCC.

Not all file formats ensure long-term usability, accessibility and preservation of data. DANS works with preferred formats.

Read the success stories about sharing and reusing data in the latest E-data & Research in Dutch. Including in this issue: Trading areas VOC and WIC online, EHRI brings researchers and sources together as a platform for Holocaust research and Koninklijke Bibliotheek saves XS4ALL homepages.