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iPRES 2019 announces that their Call for Contributions for is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

This year’s Dutch Data Prize is awarded to Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands (PAN), BBMRI-omics and OpenINTEL Active DNS Measurements. The prizes were presented on 28 November by NWO President Stan Gielen at a successful event called ‘Celebrating Data! What’s next?’

On Friday 23 November the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was officially launched, in Vienna, at an event hosted by the Austrian Presidency of the European Union. The inauguration marks the conclusion of a long process of consultation and reflection with stakeholders led by the European Commission.

Visit the DANS open day on open science on February 14, 2019. Together with the Young Academy of the KNAW, Promovendi Netwerk Nederland and the Horizon 2020 project OpenAIRE, DANS organizes this afternoon about research data management, data archiving and data re-use. The day is specially organized for (young) scientists and data librarians.

The need for professionally managing sensitive data is growing in science, therefore we invite you to join our webinar on good practices, tips & tricks, as well as cloud-based services for researchers. The webinar will take place on December 6th 2018, at 14:00.

FAIR data, FAIRness, FAIR compliance: did you also stumble upon the capitalized version of “fair” often in the past couple of months? Did you sometimes wonder what this acronym means exactly in relation to your own work or for the research community in general? Or do you know about the FAIR principles in detail and would like to get to know more about some of the most recent discussions on that topic? Then the webinar ‘FAIR data in practice: From FAIRy tale to FAIR enough’ organized by DANS is interesting for you.

More than 250 databases with data on public health and healthcare in the Netherlands are now available via NARCIS, the information portal of, and for, the Dutch research community. This new expansion of NARCIS is the result of a collaborative project between DANS and the RIVM and is part of the DANS program on life sciences.

With Eurostat estimating that in 2015, 119 million people, or 23.8% of the EU population, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, poverty remains an important research topic in the context of Europe. Hosted by the CESSDA training group, this one-hour webinar will explore data available for researching poverty and its impact.