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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.

Essentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course for those who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.

From April 5 to 30, ACS Spring 2021 will take place. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Meetings & Expositions are meeting places for chemistry professionals to exchange ideas and advance scientific and technical knowledge. On April 14, DANS will provide two presentations on FAIR and TRUST for the Division of Chemical information track.

SciDataCon 2021 is part of International Data Week (IDW) 2021, which is organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA), the World Data System (WDS) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) from 8 to 11 November 2021. Session proposals for SciDataCon 2021 can be submitted until 30 April 30.

The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will take place in virtual format on 19 April in Edinburgh. Ingrid Dillo, deputy director of DANS, will speak at the conference.

On 25 March, three useful tools for heritage institutions were launched by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE). These Dutch tools are: Wegwijzer Digitale Duurzaamheid, Wegwijzer Voorkeursformaten and Wegwijzer Certification.