News

On February 10 and 24, the second edition of the Latin America and Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop will take place, with DANS participating in the panel ‘Scientific data management in Health and the Environment’.

It is until 13 February that you can nominate your colleague or yourself for the Research Support Champion award of 2021. The prize will be awarded during SURF Research Week: the national conference on ICT in research and education.

The news article was published on the OpenAIRE website by Gerda McNeill (University Vienna) as part of the Task Force Research Data Management (RDM). The Taskforce RDM is led by DANS.

On 31 January, CLARIAH launched a call for Fellows. Two kinds of fellowships are distinguished: Research Fellowships and Teaching Fellowships. DANS is involved with CLARIAH in terms of the sustainability and making the infrastructure FAIR.

On 25 March, three handy Dutch tools are launched simultaneously to keep digital information sustainably accessible. These are ‘Wegwijzer Certification’, ‘Wegwijzer Voorkeursformaten’ and ‘Wegwijzer Duurzaamheidsbeleid’. As of this year, the ‘Wegwijzer Certification’ is maintained by DANS.

Thursday 28 January marks the start of Poetry Week 2021. Initiated by Poetry International, the last week of January in the Netherlands and Flanders is traditionally devoted to poetry. Via EASY, data about poetry can be found and reused.

With seven academic journals in the field of social sciences and humanities, the open access platform Openjournals.nl was launched today. The platform is made possible by a collaboration between the KNAW, NWO and the OPUS Foundation. DANS strongly encourages this initiative.

On 18 January 2021, the Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC (DICE) project was officially launched with an online kick-off meeting. The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the EU. DANS is also involved in the project.