News

Registration for both the 50th Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) organized by the CCAAAs is now open.

A new DANS Data Guide has been published recently. Data Guide 19: Social and Cultural Developments in the Netherlands 2019. Documentation of a national survey on social cohesion and modernisation.

ODISSEI organizes a conference for its community on the 22nd of October, 2019.

DANS will work together with 16 partners to expand the capacity and capabilities of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to nine participating countries, providing more and better resources for scientists in Europe.

AVA_Net is the network organization for audiovisual collection holders in the Netherlands. The network strengthens the position of the audiovisual heritage and offers a (knowledge) platform. This June AVA_Net launched a new AV library.

Slava Tykhonov from DANS and Philipp Conzett (UiT/DataverseNO) presented the vision on the development of the Dataverse SSHOC project at the Dataverse Community Meeting 2019 at Harvard University, in the United States.

ZonMw and NWO have made funds available for the 5th call for projects within the ZonMw programme Enabling Technologies Hotels. The goal of this call is to stimulate active collaboration between researchers with and without access to high-end technologies.

After six months of preparation, the sustainable metadata integration into the EHRI portal was successfully completed. The current integration of the collection descriptions from Yad Vashem’s archive added new and updated descriptions to the EHRI portal using ResourceSync technology and a tool for this created by DANS. The blog describes their journey to a sustainable infrastructure for publishing collection descriptions.