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From 5 to 16 August, the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 2019 took place at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste. On behalf of DANS, Frans Huigen participated as a student.

In 2017 Kim Cohen, Utrecht University, received a Small Data Project-grant (dutch: KDP-subsidie) for the project Lowlands Coring Database Utrecht University. Between 1959 and 1990, the Lowlands Coring Database of coring descriptions was created of the Rhine-Meuse delta. Thanks to the KDP grant, part of the analogue archives could be digitised.

DANS and the Netherlands eScience Center joined forces to more constructively support researchers and scientific programmers when writing and archiving their research software. One of the first practical and visible results of this cooperation is that scientific software is now included in NARCIS, the national information portal of and for the Dutch research community.

Frank van Harmelen, member of the DANS Science Committee, is one of the principal applicants of the allocated grant.

Data must be stored in a findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) way. But how do you know if a dataset is FAIR? DANS is developing a tool which supports researchers in depositing their data in EASY in a FAIR manner. We invite everyone to think along.

Every year throughout the second weekend of September, thousands of monuments open their doors to the public during ‘Open Monumentendag’ (Heritage Day). DANS has many datasets that have to do with monuments.

In collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh, Research Data Netherlands developed an Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Delivering Research Data Management Services (DRDMS). The course is open for enrolment, starting officially on the 2nd of September 2019.

For the past 5 years, Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) has offered the “Essentials 4 Data Support” course, an introductory course for those who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.