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EU status for CLARIN

2012-05-03

The European Commission has given a major boost to research project Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CLARIN) by the award of an EU status.


Data new wave Labor Demand Panel available

2012-05-03

Are you curious about changes in the demand for labor and employment policies of employers? The data from the Labor Demand Panel of 2010 are available through DANS EASY.


UvA gets access to ICPSR Direct through DANS

2012-05-03

Students and staff of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) can now download data directly and for free from the data archive at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in the United States.


Lecture ‘Mining, Mapping, and Accelerating Science and Technology’

2012-05-02

On June 6th Katy Börner, current KNAW Visiting Professor and guest at DANS and the e-humanities group, gives a public lecture on the topic ‘Mining, mapping and accelerating Science and Technology’.


Fourth ESS Workshop - Stability and Change in Europe

2012-04-25

On September 27 DANS organizes the Fourth Dutch ESS Workshop in collaboration with Prof. Kees Aarts, national coordinator for European Social Survey (ESS).


1 million euros 'seed capital' for CLARIAH

2012-04-25

CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) receives 1 million euros of "seed capital" from Secretary of Education Halbe Zijlstra for further development while waiting for a new round of Roadmap projects in 2014.


Are you the winner of the Dutch Data Prize 2012?

2012-04-24

Are you or do you know of a researcher or research group that makes a unique contribution to science, through hard graft in the area of data archiving? Nominate him or her for the Dutch Data Prize!


New release research WoON 2009

2012-04-24

A new release of the WoON research over 2009 is available in EASY. This version (1.4) contains new variables and corrections to existing variables.


Data available from more countries ESS 2010/2011

2012-04-23

In 2010/2011 the fifth round of the European Social Survey was held. Late 2011 data from the first 20 countries were published. Currently the data and documentation from another six countries (Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Slovakia, Ukraine) are also accessible via the ESS website.


First CARARE datasets in Europeana

2012-04-20

The first CARARE dataset was successfully published by Europeana. The publication follows two years’ work on data preparation, the creation of a CARARE metadata schema tailored towards archaeological content and establishing the technology for a complete harvesting, aggregation and ingestion service.

Swedish national monuments inventory