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Around 400 experts from 30 countries, 5 continents and various sectors will soon gather in Amsterdam to share knowledge about the digital accessibility of our heritage. The iPRES conference is taking place in the Netherlands this year from 16-20 September and DANS will be contributing as a sponsor.

The first week of the new open online course: Delivering Research Data Management Services was successfully launched. Week 2 focuses on the fundamentals of self-evaluating an institution’s current and potential ability to deliver appropriate RDM services.

In 2018, Prof. Marcel van Aken and his colleagues Prof. Maja Dekovic and Dr. Ellen Reitz received a KDP grant for STARS, a longitudinal study into the relational and sexual development of young people in the Netherlands.

From 5 to 16 August, the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 2019 took place at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste. On behalf of DANS, Frans Huigen participated as a student.

In 2017 Kim Cohen, Utrecht University, received a Small Data Project-grant (dutch: KDP-subsidie) for the project Lowlands Coring Database Utrecht University. Between 1959 and 1990, the Lowlands Coring Database of coring descriptions was created of the Rhine-Meuse delta. Thanks to the KDP grant, part of the analogue archives could be digitised.

DANS and the Netherlands eScience Center joined forces to more constructively support researchers and scientific programmers when writing and archiving their research software. One of the first practical and visible results of this cooperation is that scientific software is now included in NARCIS, the national information portal of and for the Dutch research community.

Frank van Harmelen, member of the DANS Science Committee, is one of the principal applicants of the allocated grant.

Data must be stored in a findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) way. But how do you know if a dataset is FAIR? DANS is developing a tool which supports researchers in depositing their data in EASY in a FAIR manner. We invite everyone to think along.