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Research Data Netherlands and Digital Curation Center jointly organize an online course on data management.

DANS follows the advice of KNAW and RIVM regarding the coronavirus. This leads to a number of concrete measures to limit the spread of the virus.

SSHOC will be featured at this year’s Digital Humanities Hackathon (27/5 – 5/6 2020) where Kea Tijdens and Dani Ceccon (T3.2) will showcase the WageIndicator dataset and how it can be utilized in answering research questions in Digital Humanities and Social Science.

Stichting Batavialand has digitized the paper archaeological (ship) excavation documentation of the former maritime depot of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. This special collection is now accessible via EASY. The first series of excavation files from the maritime national collection are published in EASY. This series concerns the files of wrecks that were found during the extraction of the Wieringermeer and the Noordoostpolder.

On Thursday the 9th of April, DANS will host a webinar on the NARCIS PID Graph.

For the 15th anniversary of DANS, the DANS Data Game was produced. The game was developed especially for researchers in the Netherlands, but has already spread throughout the world. For example, researchers in Brazil, Spain and Finland are currently playing the game.

This year the 85th edition of the Dutch Book Week takes place from March 7 – 15. This year’s Book Week is dedicated to those who increase our imagination: the rebels and the thinkers who go against the grain. The aim of this annual week is the promotion of the (Dutch) book. In our digital archive, datasets and publications about the book and the author can be found and reused.

RDJ, published by Brill publishers and DANS, is a peer reviewed e-only open access journal. Authors can submit their data papers online.