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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.

As a partner of the eScience Symposium 2019, which takes place on November 21, DANS will be involved in three sessions during the event.

Since 2005, Internet Day is celebrated every year on 29 October. Internet Day wants to show the possibilities that new technologies offer to improve the standard of living by giving people a better understanding of technology and its functions. In our online EASY archive, datasets can be found to analyze and investigate the internet and online behavior.

The Helis Academy Course: FAIR Data Stewardship – digital data scholarship for life sciences – aims to improve FAIR data stewardship in the life sciences. This three-day course will focus on various aspects of data stewardship, the data life cycle, and the FAIR principles.

Are you working on research support from an IT perspective, from a supportive and training perspective or from a policy perspective? Are you a researcher and would you like to think along about adapting RDAs “23 Things” for your colleagues? Join in!

The first FAIR terminology workshop was held in Paris on 20 and 21 May. This week the participants meet again at DANS in The Hague, from 16 to 18 October.

A Reproducibility Hackathon will take place in the Leiden University Library on the 30th of November. An interdisciplinary group of researchers will work on improving reproducibility during ReproHack.

NIOO, IBED and DANS organise a joint workshop at the Biodiversity_Next conference in Leiden. Biodiversity_Next brings together various international organizations that work together on a knowledge and data infrastructure for biodiversity research.