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World Environment Day, hosted by Colombia this 2020, is the most renowned day for environmental action. Since 1974, it has been celebrated every year on 5 June: engaging governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue.

Curious about information about Dutch science? The NARCIS.nl portal provides information about Dutch science through the linking of persistent identifiers in a PID Graph.

Reusing data created by others holds great promise in research, but little is known about how users actually search for data.

Senior information scientist Slava Tykhonov has joined the initiative CoronaWhy. Currently, around the globe, institutional and grass-rooted initiatives try to bring all data together to fight the COVID-19 virus.

Currently, The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) is offline available as well.

Within the ZonMw program “Enabling Technologies Hotels”, DANS operates as a specialist facility for managing, sharing and storing data. Together with Amsterdam UMC and Philips Medical Systems, DANS is embarking on an ambitious project to share raw MRI data for AI and other advanced analysis via the DANS infrastructure.

The deadline to nominate for the Dutch Data Prize 2020 has been extended to July 1st. Are you a researcher with a good example of shared data? Or do you know someone who is? Nominate yourself, another researcher or a research group for the Dutch Data Prize 2020.

CoreTrustSeal is an international quality mark for data repositories focussed on sustainability, reliability and accessibility.