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On Monday 20 February, NWO brought the news that nine projects will receive 140 million euros to set up or improve large-scale research infrastructure. The Dutch research field jointly set its priorities for investment in large-scale research infrastructure for the next ten years in the so called National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure. DANS is involved in two of these projects: SSHOC-NL and LTER-LIFE.

FAIR Data is an important element of Open Science. In Europe we are several years down the road and there are a lot of initiatives and fundings. What has this brought us so far? What is the status of the FAIR practices of researchers and the FAIRness of research data? The European Research Data Landscape study, which DANS was a partner in, dives into this. We summarise the most important and noticeable outcomes. 

Are you a data steward, data manager, or researcher in the heritage sciences? Are you or will you be responsible for managing research data derived from the analysis of cultural heritage collections or objects, and would you like to store your data “FAIR” so that they can be better found and (re)used by others? Then sign up for the E-RIHS workshop on metadata for FAIR heritage research.

During the National Open Science Festival in September 2022, the first prototype of the ODISSEI Portal was launched. The Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability, and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands. Portal had an upgrade. 

For the FAIR-IMPACT project, we are looking for FAIR Champions. This group of 12 experts will actively engage in analysing and shaping FAIR data policies and practices in their field, act as ambassadors for FAIR, engage their community and advocate for adoption of the project results. The deadline to apply is Friday March 10th at 17:00 CET.

As announced at the CLARIAH & NDE Annual Conference on November 24 2022, CLARIAH opens a call for research projects using data from Dutch heritage institutions. The call aims to provide access for researchers to new data and gives heritage institutions the opportunity have their data developed and disseminated.

The new ARIADNEplus portal provides access to more than 4 million sources. DANS ensured that the data of Dutch archaeologists, dendrochronologists and other cultural heritage researchers are included.

DANS will decommission the NARCIS Portal. This means that from January, all content related to projects, persons and organisations on the NARCIS website will be frozen. And on March 1, this website will be taken offline.