Data Archiving and Networked Services

DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO

Data Archiving and Networked Services

Welkom – Data4Librarians

Peter Doorn, director DANS

10 April 2014Den Haag

What is DANS?

Institute of Dutch

Academy and

Research Funding

Organisation

(KNAW & NWO)

since 2005

First predecessor

dates back to

1964 (Steinmetz

Foundation),

Historical Data

Archive 1989

Mission: promote

and provide

permanent access

to digital research

information

Data Archiving in the Humanities and Social SciencesData collection and data processing awareness of the value of preserving data for re-use:

– for validating the results of earlier research– for comparative analysis– for secondary analysis: answering new research questions

with existing data

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

social science data archives

ICPSR, ZA, UKDA Steinmetz

text archives for linguistics and literary studies

Oxford Text Archive

historical data archives

NHDA, HDS, IPUMS

archaeology data archives

ADS, EDNA

Emergence of data archives:

Dataverse, Zenodo, Figshare, B2Suite

University repositoriesGeneral data sharing facilities

Research Data Netherlands

• Mission: the promotion of sustained access and responsible re-use of digital research data

• Builds upon existing cooperation of DANS & 3TU.Datacentrum (Data4Librarians training, Dutch Data Award)

• Expanding cooperation on back-office functions

• Open to other trusted digital repositories

www.researchdatanetherlands.nl

EASY: Electronic Archiving System for self-deposit

NARCIS: Gateway to scholarly information In the Netherlands

Data Seal of Approval

Persistent IdentifierURN:NBN resolver

Our services

EASY Electronic Archiving System

Metadata in 6 varieties

>27.000 datasets gearchiveerd

http://easy.dans.knaw.nl

Datasets accessible at DANS (EASY/NARCIS)

November 2010: 1 million data files

March 2013: 2 million data files (25,000 data sets)

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Open (after login)63%

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25%

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Five re-use cases of data in the humanities

Collaborative work: bringing together data from many scholars

1. Historical shipping

2. Digitized censuses

3. Global inequality

4. Holocaust studies

5. Dendrochronology

1880

Average years of education per capita

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New service from May 1st onward: Dutch Dataverse

We look forward to September…

..and hope to welcome you all in the Amsterdam!

22-24 September

Co-located events 21 & 24-26 September

https://rd-alliance.org/rda-fourth-plenary-meeting.html

Data Archiving and Networked Services

DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO

Thank you for your attention

www.dans.knaw.nl

www.narcis.nl

peter.doorn@dans.knaw.nl

http://youtu.be/HJbo-OAaJ1I

The work DANS does summarized in a 4 minute video, introduced by Neelie Kroes