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“The project has fully achieved its objectives and milestones for this period and has delivered exceptional results with significant immediate or potential impact”. These are some of the absolute admirable words from the mid-term review of the European Horizon 2020-project FAIRsFAIR.

Since late last year, Dutch Sign Language (NGT) has been an officially recognised language in the Netherlands. On 13 October, the Dutch Senate approved the bill for the recognition of Dutch Sign Language (NGT). Data sets about sign language are also available in EASY.

The new edition of E-data & Research features an interview with Henk Wals. E-data spoke with him about the new five-year programme of DANS, in which collaboration takes centre stage.

The CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) has had an update. The catalogue contains the metadata of the data sets of the CESSDA Service Providers. DANS is the national Service Provider of CESSDA.

Read the success stories about sharing and reusing data in the latest E-data & Research. In this issue you will find, among other things: vangoghworldwide.org facilitates research, ASReview software searches through digital data faster and KansenKaart.nl sketches a rich picture of equal opportunities in the Netherlands.

Did you know, that DARIAH-ERIC, the European Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, offers so called Working Groups? As a researcher or data professional you can join these groups and share your knowledge and questions with colleagues across borders.

Curious about the possibilities and challenges with regard to geodata in relation to the European Data Strategy? Please join us at the online NCG workshop on February 18. Registration is still possible.

CLARIN and SSHOC T6.2 organise a webinar to discuss best practices for preserving oral source materials. DANS participates in the SSHOC project within the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) .