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The online archiving system EASY is accessible again since 31 July. As a precaution, the system has been out of service for a short time after a data breach was detected. The cause of the data breach has since been established and necessary measures have been taken. As a result, EASY can be used safely again,

Online archiving system EASY is currently out of use. Users with an account for EASY have been personally notified. When the platform will be back online is currently  unknown. Make use of the DANS Data Stations for data archiving and reuse.

In medical research, data files often need to be destroyed after a certain period of time. It is now possible to document the maximum period that data is kept (retention period) in DataverseNL and the DANS Data Stations.

Applying FAIR principles to qualitative data requires a careful balancing act between making data available for reuse, protecting respondents’ privacy and staying true to your epistemological beliefs. Data Stewards from Maastricht University have written a data story on this.

Cultural heritage practitioners such as librarians, archivists, curators, and data stewards as well as researchers, scholars, and practitioners collaborating with them, are invited to contribute to a Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) that focuses on GLAM collections as data. DANS Research Data Management Specialist, Deborah Thorpe, is a guest editor for this special collection.

The FAIR-IMPACT project has produced a list of 16 requirements for creating a EOSC compliant PID policy for PID managers. This list is open for community review.

The paper on Croissant*, a metadata format that helps standardise machine learning (ML) datasets, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 8th Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM).

We are pleased to invite the research support community, policymakers, and researchers to our upcoming Open Day on 14 November 2024. Join us for an insightful event dedicated to promoting Open Data & Open Science and its principles.