From Clio Infrastructure
Data Archiving and Networked Services
DANS is the national organisation responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Netherlands. It is a ‘joint venture’ of two major national research organisations in the Netherlands: the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Currently approximately 15 permanent and 15 temporary staff members are working on both recurrent tasks (e.g. acquisition of datasets, data curation, and training and consultation) and research & development projects with a focus on the long term longevity of scientific datasets. DANS staff have been and still are involved in many R&D projects and have world class knowledge on data curation, preservation and dissemination. Research and development projects include: EASY - Electronic Archiving SYstem: a recently developed system to accommodate data up- and downloading by researchers for preservation and dissemination purposes; MIXED - Migrating to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data: development of an archival format (and software) for databases and spreadsheets to allow for efficient long term preservation and accessibility of datasets; Persistent Identifiers: a research project to create an overview of the different solutions for persistent identifiers (this is an essential ingredient for setting up durable connections between datasets and/or publications); DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities: an international project that aims to set up a European infrastructure for data curation, preservation and dissemination.
DANS will be responsible for the central portal
Contact details
Data Archiving and Networked Services
P.O. Box 93067
2509 AB The Hague
The Netherlands
+31 70 3494450
info@dans.knaw.nl
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/
