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The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), is the European program that builds a virtual environment for all researchers to store, manage, analyse and re-use data for research, innovation and educational purposes.

Today a new entry has appeared on the blog of the EHRI website: “The learning curve in sharing data with the EHRI project: the example of a memorial site, Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen”.
New EHRI blog appeared: “The learning curve in sharing data with the EHRI project”

Emily Bongiovanni, a graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Denver (US), has developed an independent study to understand the structure of research data services. She visited three institutions to achieve this and took the initiative to contact DANS, among other institutions in the United Kingdom, to reach her goals.

This year the Dutch Data Prize will be awarded for the fifth time. The prize will be granted to a researcher or a research group that has made a special contribution to science by making research data accessible for new or additional research. Just like in 2016, the prize will be awarded in three categories: humanities & social sciences, exact & technical sciences and medical & life sciences.

On June 11 2018 it was announced that the EHRI-portal won an honorary mention of the
Prix Ars Electronica in the category ‘Digital Communities’.

On September 27 and 28, a new colloquium will be organized by DANS’ Research & Innovation Group. Please submit your paper before July 31.

On October the 29th a workshop on ‘Research Objects’ will be organized in Amsterdam. Interested scientists and related professionals are invited to vocalise their thoughts on this data approach and submit an abstract or paper before the 1st of July.

On 28 March 2018, the EASY online archiving system of DANS received CoreTrustSeal (CTS) certification. CTS is an international quality mark for data repositories focussed on sustainability, reliability and accessibility.