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iPRES 2019 is seeking submissions from software developers and vendors who would like to nominate software for the workflow-specific software category of the Great Digital Preservation Bake-Off, to be held as part of the iPRES 2019 conference at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 16 – 20 September.

Last month, the European Commission published a new success story of EU research featuring DARIAH and its project Humanities at Scale. The HaS-DARIAH project, which ran from 2015 to the end of 2017, built on preparatory work for supporting transnational researchers in all phases of their work: from data acquisition and analysis to publication and archiving.

The World Data System (WDS) has created a new network to support Early Career Researchers and Scientists (ECRs). The network commits to support the next generation of data stewards and data professionals that wish to develop various data related skills.

The train-the-trainer bootcamp event, held on the 17th of April in The Hague, was a great success. The event is part of the FOSTER Open Science bootcamp series.

The Essentials 4 Data Support course will reoccur in the autumn. This is an introductory course for those who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.

Over 50,000 new collection descriptions and 25,000 updates were added to the EHRI portal last month. The EHRI portal focuses on Holocaust related archives.

At the beginning of this year, a policy document was published on the role and objectives of DANS with regard to the social sciences. The roots of DANS lie in the social sciences and humanities and these disciplines play a central role in the services that DANS provides and the projects in which DANS is involved. DANS will continue and deepen many of the social science projects in the coming year.

More than 1000 datasets of the Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands project (PAN) made accessible in EASY.