News

Ron Dekker has been appointed as director of CESSDA.

A new online tutorial is made available by CESSDA concerning the following topics: OAIS, Ingest and Access and Dissemination. The tutorial targets an audience involved in data archiving in the social sciences.

The NCDD and the UK Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are offering a series of monthly webinars. Starting this month, all the winners and finalists of the Digital Preservation Awards 2016 will take the stage.

The ICSU World Data System (WDS)
and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Board are pleased to announce the availability of their
unified Requirements for Core Trustworthy Data Repository certification.

The aim of the MoU between nestor and the OPF is to facilitate discussion between the two organisations and to co-operate on activities to promote digital preservation.

The Essentials 4 Data Support course is offered by DANS, 4TU and SURFsara, as part of the Research Data Netherlands alliance.

On August 29-30, DANS co-organizes the workshop “Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics” in Budapest.

DANS is happy to announce that Project K-PLEX, Knowledge Complexity will officially be funded under H2020.