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Researchers with a PhD who are employed by a Dutch research institution can request funding for the replication of ‘cornerstone research’ in the disicplines of the NWO Research Area of the Social Sciences and ZonMw.

Pearl Dykstra argues in her column for a multidisciplinary approach, because great science can arise through collaboration.

Last year, 8 projects from DANS received a KDP grant. These projects include the vectoring and making available of analogue excavation drawings, the oral history project ‘Istori Manokwari’ and data on structured data about Dutch female authors who were active until around 1900.

DANS has published a Data Guide on the 1795-2001 census of the Netherlands. The Data Guide has been published in EASY.

A new DANS Symposium Publication (number 9) has been published. The European Social Survey (ESS) is a large survey survey that has been conducted every two years since 2002 among the residents of around thirty European countries.

May 20th and 21st, Frans Huigen of DANS attended a workshop that took place at the CODATA headquarters in Paris. There he worked, together with experts in the field of Research Data Management (RDM), knowledge management, educational science, FAIR data, and data literacy, on the terminology of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) stewardship skills.

Also a fan of the “Top 10 FAIR Data and Software Things”? The existing list has been expanded, and everyone can participate.

Read the success stories about sharing and reusing data in the latest E-data & Research. In this issue: subsidy for small data projects, visiting a seventeenth-century studio online and machine learning: what is real and what is fake?