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DANS maintains a strong national presence and is acknowledged internationally as an innovative contributor in the field of research data management. These are among the findings of an independent review committee in its recent evaluation of the institute. The committee observes that DANS has played a meaningful role in advancing the professionalisation of data management, both in the Netherlands and internationally. The evaluation, conducted in June 2024, covers the period from 2017 to 2023. The full report, along with responses from DANS, the Scientific Advisory Board for DANS (WAR), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has now been made publicly available.

The European FIDELIS project welcomes digital repositories that practice or aspire to practice TRUST-inspiring and FAIR-enabling ways of working to join the network. The FIDELIS Network aims to grow into an advocacy group for FAIR-enabling trustworthy digital repositories, which facilitates knowledge exchange. Members can co-create the Network, engage in the pilot support offer in 2025, and engage with other Network members.

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DANS recently published the guidebook ‘Making 3D Scholarly Editions Reusable: A step-by-step guide for depositing FAIR 3DSEs’. The report guides researchers to make their 3DSEs FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and to deposit them within the DANS Data Stations or other repositories, and sets out best practices in this area for 3DSEs. 

We welcome you to register for two workshops this spring, each covering different aspects of the topic of hard-to-share in the social sciences and humanities. 

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Upcoming funding opportunity for collaborative projects solving challenges with FAIR Data and Software in the Social Sciences & Humanities.

Make your experiences heard: ‘Untangling FAIR implementation in the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities’, one of the TDCC-SSH Bottleneck Projects, would like to hear from you!

DANS was invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Amsterdam focused on depositing interviews and oral history data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The materials presented in this event can now be viewed and reused via Zenodo. 

The first article in a new themed journal issue on ‘Amplifying GLAM collections’ discusses the FAIR Photos Project, with enriched metadata published as open data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. Read how this project contributed to data reusability.