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On 27 January the 2Doc documentary ‘De Sobibor Tapes – de vergeten interviews van Jules Schelvis’ was broadcasted. The complete interviews can be found in the thematic collection: Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, available via EASY.

The database “Pupils of the Amsterdam Maritime Institute 1792-1943” is available via EASY. The file contains data on recruits of the Maritime Institute during the period 1792-1943.

On January 14, 2021 the kick-off of the new research project Polifonia took place, financed by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. DANS is responsible for the Data Management Plan within the project.

On 1 April 2021, NWO and ZonMw will become members of Europe PMC (PubMed Central), an open science platform that maintains a worldwide collection of scientific articles and other research output.

On 8 and 11 February, SSHOC and DARIAH-ERIC organise an interactive bootcamp on Research Data Management (RDM). DANS participates in the SSHOC project within the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA).

DANS can now call itself an official member of the EOSC Association. On December 17 last, the first General Assembly of the members and observers of the new EOSC Association took place. This association succeeds the temporary EOSC governance.

On 8 January 2021, the article “Connected Research: The Potential of the PID Graph” was published in the open access journal Patterns (Cell Press). DANS staff members Ricarda Braukmann and René van Horik were co-authors of the article.

On Tuesday 2 March, Kathleen Gregory, researcher and PhD candidate at DANS, will defend her PhD at Maastricht University.