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17 January 2025

New in the DANS Data Stations: Log in with your ORCID account!

Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences

To deposit data in the DANS Data Stations, you need to create an account. Previously, it was already possible to log in using an institutional account via SURFconext, GitHub, or even Google. Now, you can also use ORCIDs, the unique personal identifiers for researchers.

14 January 2025

Beyond personal data: a new initiative to support early-career researchers with hard-to-share data

Social Sciences and Humanities

FAIR and Open data Training & Outreach

This project tackles bottlenecks in sharing sensitive research data in the social sciences and humanities. A key feature of this initiative is a series of three in-person workshops, designed to give researchers the tools and insights needed to share sensitive data responsibly.

9 December 2024

ODISSEI Portal from Prototype to Production

Social Sciences and Humanities

A new version of the ODISSEI Portal, the place to find social science datasets in the Netherlands, was launched this week, in which important steps have been made in terms of metadata.

21 November 2024

DANS Open Day: Open Science in action

Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences DataverseNL

RDM Collaborations Training & Outreach

The DANS Open Day, held on 14 November 2024, was a great success, bringing together researchers, data professionals, and policymakers to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of open science and research data management. Hosted at the DANS office in The Hague, the event highlighted the organisation’s role in advancing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data practices.

31 October 2024

New release of ELSST Thesaurus

Social Sciences and Humanities

Tools

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The latest version of the ELSST was released in September 2024. Discover some of the key changes here.

22 October 2024

Winners of the Dutch Data Prize 2024

Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences

FAIR and Open data RDM Collaborations

On Thursday 17 October 2024, the Dutch Data Prize was awarded to the three winning datasets of this eighth edition of the prestigious award. Out of 52 nominations, three datasets excelled most in terms of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR).

7 October 2024

Finalists announced of this year’s Dutch Data Prize!

Social Sciences and Humanities Archaeology Life Sciences Physical and Technical Sciences

FAIR and Open data RDM

On 17 October, the Dutch Data Prize 2024 will be awarded during the FAIR-IMPACT National Roadshow in The Hague. From the 52 submitted datasets, the jury has selected the final three candidates in each of the categories; Social Sciences & Humanities, Life Sciences & Health, and Natural & Engineering Sciences. These nine finalists have a chance to win the Dutch Data Prize 2024 and a cash prize of €3,500, intended to make their dataset even more FAIR.

6 October 2024

New version ODISSEI Portal offers metadata in Croissant-format

Social Sciences and Humanities

RDM Training & Outreach Tools

ODISSEI has released a new version of the ODISSEI Portal. In the Portal you can find more than 8.500 social science datasets available across key data providers in the Netherlands, including CBS, LISS, DANS, IISG, and the institutes affiliated with DataverseNL.