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The FAIRsFAIR proposal, coordinated by DANS, has been selected by the European Commission and has now entered the stage of contract preparation. The start of the three-year project is 1st of March 2019.

A new thematic collection is accessible in EASY: the 12th census of the 31st of May 1947.

DANS wishes you a year filled with FAIR-data and open science!

The Dutch event on Humanities and Social Science: SYNERGY conference 2019, will take place on the 7th of February. Keynote speakers, experts, and young talent will debate the full spectrum of research on humanities and social sciences.

Using humanities knowledge to explore bias in big data approaches to knowledge creation.

OCLC organised a ‘mini-symposium’ on Linked Data in the OCLC Leiden office on 19 November, 2018. 43 staff members from a range of Dutch academic libraries, cultural heritage institutions, the National Library, the National Archive, the Institute for Sound and Vision and OCLC colleagues based in Europe were brought together to discuss how Linked Data meets interoperability challenges in the online information environment. A blogpost has been written about the event.

This round the awarded projects are from a variety of disciplines, ranging from African Linguistics to Ecology and Digital Humanities. A Small Data Project (KDP in Dutch) receives a maximum of 10.000 euros.

After all the festivities at the end of the year where family and friends connect, OpenAIRE together with FREYA will start off the new year with a webinar on digital connections: the Persistent Identifiers. Please join us on January 10th, at 10:00.