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The European FIDELIS project welcomes digital repositories that practice or aspire to practice TRUST-inspiring and FAIR-enabling ways of working to join the network. The FIDELIS Network aims to grow into an advocacy group for FAIR-enabling trustworthy digital repositories, which facilitates knowledge exchange. Members can co-create the Network, engage in the pilot support offer in 2025, and engage with other Network members.

On 20 May at SURF Research Day, several DANS colleagues will deliver workshops during SURF Research Day.
Nicole Emmenegger and Nils Arlinghaus will lead a session on data interoperability in the humanities and social sciences. Mike Priddy will facilitate a hands-on workshop on supporting FAIR practices using FAIR-Aware. René van Horik will present on the infrastructure behind persistent identifiers, while Cees Hof will contribute to a session on research reproducibility and the use of RO-Crate. Below is a brief overview of the sessions.

The BRIDGE Conference took place on 20 and 21 March in Bucharest, Romania, bringing together a diverse group of researchers, data managers, and policymakers from various domains. The aim of the conference was to promote interdisciplinary research and cross-domain integration by improving practices around data management, sharing, and reuse. This was achieved through six panel discussions on topics such as discipline-specific challenges, developments within EOSC, and data stewardship — with DANS participating in the latter two.

FAIR-Aware is an online tool designed to help researchers, data stewards and other data professionals evaluate their understanding of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) guiding principles, and subsequently improve their skills in implementing relevant practices.

We’re pleased to announce that DANS will be hosting the position of ‘RDA in The Netherlands Community Development Manager 2025 – 2026’. Kim Ferguson (she/her) of DANS’ Expert Section will be taking on this role until the end of 2026. 

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DANS recently published the guidebook ‘Making 3D Scholarly Editions Reusable: A step-by-step guide for depositing FAIR 3DSEs’. The report guides researchers to make their 3DSEs FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and to deposit them within the DANS Data Stations or other repositories, and sets out best practices in this area for 3DSEs. 

From 1 March, the KNAW Humanities Cluster has been using the research data repository DataverseNL, followed by Zuyd University of Applied Sciences from 1 April. This brings the number of participating institutes to twenty-two.

We welcome you to register for two workshops this spring, each covering different aspects of the topic of hard-to-share in the social sciences and humanities.