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The CoreTrustSeal requirements have been updated based on the Board’s experience and extensive community feedback. The guidelines have been clarified, overlaps have been reduced, and greater attention has been paid to an international audience.

For the third time Valentijn Gilissen, Data Processing Team Leader at DANS, was present at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES). In this blog post, he reflects on the event, and shares his experiences and lessons learned.

PATTERN’s event on 4 December is developed for early-stage researchers to learn about essentials of open science: Open Access, Dissemination & Exploitation and FAIR RDM.

PATTERN launches free and downloadable eLearning and training toolkit, developed by DANS, in collaboration with OpenAIRE amongst other project partners.

The new year is starting off good for data professionals, with another edition of the Essentials 4 Data Support courseThe course is offered by Research Data Netherlands (RDNL)and will be instructed in English this round. 

The newly updated version of the ODISSEI Portal improves discovery of more than 9,500 social science datasets from Dutch data providers. The update includes an improved display of the controlled vocabularies as well as software and documentation updates, making the Portal more stable and easier to use.

A new version of the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) has recently been released. This edition introduces several important updates and improvements. Below we highlight the keychanges.

NWO awarded €16.8 million from the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure to fund building the Macroscope: the world’s first population-level research infrastructure designed to observe and understand how societies change over time.