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The Essentials 4 Data Support course will reoccur in the autumn. This is an introductory course for those who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.

Over 50,000 new collection descriptions and 25,000 updates were added to the EHRI portal last month. The EHRI portal focuses on Holocaust related archives.

At the beginning of this year, a policy document was published on the role and objectives of DANS with regard to the social sciences. The roots of DANS lie in the social sciences and humanities and these disciplines play a central role in the services that DANS provides and the projects in which DANS is involved. DANS will continue and deepen many of the social science projects in the coming year.

More than 1000 datasets of the Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands project (PAN) made accessible in EASY.

Scientific service providers SURF, DANS, the Netherlands e-Science Center and 4TU.ResearchData were given the chance to present their services to potential users within the NWO Roadmap program.

On Thursday, June 20, 2019, AVA_Net is organizing a brand new AVA_Net Symposium. The location is at Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum. Registration is possible via the AVA_Net website.

Dutch data have recently been stored in the NEWW VRE (New approaches to European Womens’s Writing) and archived in the online archives of DANS’s EASY. During the DANS-colloquium on Research and Data: ‘Women readers finding their literary foremothers’ on the 21st of March, possibilities for datastorage were discussed. One of the initiatives, Suzan van Dijk, provides a brief account on the colloquium.

The EOSC-synergy proposal has been favorably evaluated and will start the last quarter of 2019. The project will be coordinated by IBERGRID, the Iberian scientific and technological cooperation framework signed by Spain and Portugal on distributed computing. DANS is a partner in the project and will provide knowledge and experts on policy development and FAIR data repositories.