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Dutch data have recently been stored in the NEWW VRE (New approaches to European Womens’s Writing) and archived in the online archives of DANS’s EASY. During the DANS-colloquium on Research and Data: ‘Women readers finding their literary foremothers’ on the 21st of March, possibilities for datastorage were discussed. One of the initiatives, Suzan van Dijk, provides a brief account on the colloquium.

The EOSC-synergy proposal has been favorably evaluated and will start the last quarter of 2019. The project will be coordinated by IBERGRID, the Iberian scientific and technological cooperation framework signed by Spain and Portugal on distributed computing. DANS is a partner in the project and will provide knowledge and experts on policy development and FAIR data repositories.

The digital newsletter from DANS, DataLink, has recently been published. The April issue contains a collection of news items from the DANS website. DataLink appears every two months.

On the 1st of March, the three-year project FAIRsFAIR coordinated by DANS started. With an initial meeting on the 14th and 15th of March in Amsterdam, the 22 project partners kicked off the project gloriously.

The ‘National Institute of Health’ offers a workshop on the implementation of the CoreTrustSeal principles for data archives of the biomedical sciences.

In the science letter ‘Curious and involved – the value of science’, Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) announces three ambitions for Dutch science for the coming four years. “Open science” is frequently used in this science vision and policy.

NWO has allowed 1 million euro of its budget to go to replication studies, of previous research. The previous two series of replication studies in 2017 and 2018 aimed at health and social sciences. This time, the replication research is focused at humanities.

NARCIS offers access to scientific information: publications, datasets, research, researchers and scientists, and organisations. As part of a pilot within the European Freya-project, NARCIS now supports the use of persistent identifiers for organisations.