The first RDA in Europe Annual Summit will be held in Paris on Tuesday, 18 November 2025. This free event, organised by RDA Europe in collaboration with RDA France and CNRS, is open to anyone interested in research data and related policy.
DANS has an active Training Team with expertise in a wide range of areas, including open science, research data management (RDM), FAIR and research infrastructures. As a research data repository, we also have a busy team of data specialists who manage our Data Stations, steward and process data, and also provide training and support to depositors and users.
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It’s 1985. Take On Me by Norwegian band A-Ha is topping the charts, telephones still weigh a kilo, youth unemployment is sky-high, and squatters’ riots are a frequent occurrence in Amsterdam. In the midst of these turbulent times, Marion walks into the Steinmetz Archive – the predecessor of DANS. Exactly 40 years later we celebrate her well deserved retirement.
Due to the nationwide train strike, the DataverseNL 10th anniversary event unfortunately had to be postponed. A new date has now been confirmed: 16 september 2025, location Domstad, Utrecht.
DANS is a partner in the SSHOC-NL project – Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud – which brings together ODISSEI and CLARIAH to strengthen the research infrastructure in the social sciences and humanities. Two recent deliverables highlight DANS’ work on improving data deposit workflows and discovery tools for FAIR data use.
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On 1 June 2005, DANS was founded as a joint initiative of the KNAW and NWO. Over the past two decades, DANS has developed into the national centre of expertise for sustainable access to and reuse of research data.
