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On April 21, the FAIRsFAIR project organised the first of a series of webinars that aim to support repositories to make the data they manage more FAIR. The webinar, co-organised by DANS, was about persistent identifiers (PIDs) and methods to connect PIDs, the PID Graph.

From 7 to 15 April 2021, both insiders of the FAIRsFAIR project and external stakeholders had the opportunity to immerse themselves in all things FAIR during FAIRsFAIR Week 2021.

The third and final Synchronisation Force workshop series was officially kicked off on April 29th with an opening from Ingrid Dillo, deputy director DANS.

During the 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) on 19 April 2021, attention was drawn to the (un)satisfied user within open research data and the preservation infrastructure. The content of this presentation can be read in the recently published blog post.

During two half days on 14 and 17 June, ODISSEI, CESSDA-ERIC and DANS will organise a workshop on research data management for researchers in the social sciences. Registration is open as of today.

At the RDA Virtual Plenary 17 (VP17) on 23 April 2021, a workshop on priorities and international alignment for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will take place. DANS deputy director Ingrid Dillo has been invited to participate in the panel.

Since 2019, DANS has been a member of the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC). Together with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University and the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina, DANS was involved in the creation of the consortium, which currently includes more than 30 institutions across five continents.

The open access trend in archaeology has flourished in recent years. Eight years ago, the large archaeological companies such as BAAC, RAAP and ADC were the first to opt for more flexible access rights: 99% of the 100,000 archaeological datasets at DANS are now directly accessible.