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19 July 2022

Metadata for publishing training courses and training materials

FAIR and Open data Training & Outreach

For some time now, there has been a desire to make training materials more FAIR in order to increase the retrievability of existing materials and promote their reusability. Within the Interest Group Education and Training on Handling Research Data (ETHRD) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), a task force has examined the minimum metadata required when publishing training materials.

15 July 2022

Easier searching, easier sharing and created for archaeological datasets

Archaeology

With almost 120,000 datasets, our new Data Station Archaeology is the central place where you can easily store, find, share and publish archaeological data online. A large amount of easily searchable reports, photographs, tables and field drawings ready for reuse.

15 July 2022

Collection datasets ‘Women in decision-making’

Tools

The collection datasets ‘Women in decision-making’ are now available in EASY through a Thematic collection page. Previously the sets could be found as separate items in EASY, now they are bundled on an overview page.

Curus Publicieren en archiveren voor Hogescholen

14 July 2022

DANS and DCC-PO provide a new tailor-made course: “Publishing and archiving for universities of applied sciences”.

Collaborations Training & Outreach

Within practical education, there appeared to be a need for a course specifically about publishing and archiving data and software. DCC-PO and DANS have joined forces to design a new course, tailored to the needs of data stewards working at universities of applied sciences.

13 July 2022

DANS contributes to Open Science Festival

Collaborations Training & Outreach Consultancy

On September 1, the second edition of the Open Science Festival will take place around the Atrium of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. DANS, as a supporter of open data and with its expertise, will contribute to the festival.

12 July 2022

Anja Smit on board at DANS

Anja Smit has been the director of DANS since Monday, July 11. She succeeds Henk Wals, who has taken a well-deserved retirement. Smit brings with her more than 30 years of (international) experience in the field of sustainable access to scientific information.