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The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) organises the Web Archiving Conference (WAC) in cooperation with the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales de Québec (BAnQ) on 12 and 13 May 2020. Proposals for the conference can be submitted until the 1st of December 2019.

The United Nations proclaimed November 21st as “World Television Day.” A day on which extra attention is paid to cultural exchange that focuses on peace, security and economic and social development. In EASY you can find all kinds of data about television and media use.

The Sharing is Caring conference takes place at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on 22 November. During the conference, heritage institutions share their ideas and best practices in the field of digital collections and open data.

International Student’s Day is celebrated on November 17, an international observance of student activism. In our digital archive you can also find and reuse data about students and their environment.

The Digital Heritage Network (Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed) offers a workshop on 28 November 2019 during the Digital Heritage Week. You can attend this workshop free of charge between 10:30 am and 4:30 pm in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague.

Employees of Wageningen University & Research-Library, together with a broad network of importers in the research groups, have ensured that the number of publications accessible via NARCIS has risen above two million. DANS has congratulated the team at WUR with a festive cake.

The National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) has published several horror stories on research data management. These stories appear during the Dutch Data Horror week, inspired by Halloween.

At the invitation of the Technical University of Vienna, DANS is organising a workshop for repositories in Austria on 14 November.