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Over the last few months, DANS was part of the author team that created a working paper on the creation of a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs). This working paper depicts the vision of this Network and the next steps to make it a reality. The paper has now been published online.

During a session of the Dutch national Open Science Festival, ODISSEI launched the first version of the ODISSEI portal. This portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced semantic queries to support findability, and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands.

DANS is the Dutch national expertise centre and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. Therefore, we have joined the European coalition that sets a shared direction for changes in assessment practices for research, researchers and research performing organisations. The overarching goal is to improve the quality and impact of research. 

During four intensive Bootcamp days in June-July at the Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) in Amersfoort and Amsterdam, nine course participants studied the ins and outs of good data management in heritage studies. Under the guidance of a heritage data coach and a research data coach, the course participants, who come from different organisations, worked on data management plans and personal learning objectives. Speakers from collection management, research and policy provided the Bootcamp with an extra dimension of expertise and experience. The Bootcamp was a first training pilot of the Dutch node of the European Research Infrastructure for the Heritage Sciences (E-RIHS).

DANS and IKOS continue their collaboration in various forms. Andrea Scharnhorst from DANS is appointed as Associate fellow at the Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure (IKOS). 

After successful earlier editions, a new edition of the DANS Data trail will take place on Thursday, 22 September 2022. This time the topic will be how the EOSC organisation stimulates community based Open Science.



This article gives an overview of the current situation regarding digital archaeology in the Netherlands and how it is connected with worldwide innovations.

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On 17 June, 2022, Ingrid Dillo spoke at the American Chorus Forum about making data FAIR on behalf of DANS. The main subject is the challenge of making data interoperable and reusable.