News

Dr Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has been appointed as the new CESSDA Director. Her five-year term will begin on 1 April 2022.

DANS contributed to the translation of terms available in the CESSDA topic classification. The terms of this and eight other controlled vocabularies published in the CESSDA Vocabulary Service are now available in Dutch.

The datasets Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2021 (DPES/NKO 2021) and Dutch Ethnic Minority Study 2021 (DEMES 2021) are available through DANS.

The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) Call 2022 is now open. The grant is intended for researchers employed at participating ODISSEI organisations.

The article “From Disparate Disciplines to Unity in Diversity: How the PARTHENOS Project Has Brought European Humanities Research Infrastructures Together” was recently published. DANS Data Station Managers Femmy Admiraal (Humanities) and Hella Hollander (Archaeology) contributed to this article.

Alex Brandsen of the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Leiden developed a search engine called AGNES, which searches very precisely through thousands of archaeological reports. His PhD defence took place on 15 February 2022.

Together with head researcher Gemma Blok and the Poppi Museum, DANS starts the project Tales from the Drug Closet. In this project, stories about personal experiences with drug use are collected through an online environment.

As of January 18th 2022, SSHOC has launched the SSH Open Marketplace. It is a discovery platform for resources relevant to academics, scholars, and students of the social sciences and humanities. The range of covered resources spans from tools and services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.