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The complete application for CoreTrustSeal (CTS) by DANS (September 2021). CTS offers a process of self-evaluation for digital repositories. The certification process consists of a set of 16 criteria with which a repository must comply.

The report identifies gaps (in 2017) for further development of data archives services in each country by exploring the wider ecosystem of data sharing culture, organisational setting, and service operational profile.

This webinar introduces the Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements.

This document summarizes the DANS strategy 2021-2025. It describes the organization's mission and target groups, as well as its strategic priorities and objectives.

This report describes and analyse a selection of existing deposit services within the SSH based on a common framework and set of information categories that seeks to synthesize the knowledge contained within the different deposit services. In addition, it also provides a set of best practices and...

This webpage gives recommendations to the depositor: 1. before depositing data, such as licenses, terms of use, IPR, personal data, file formats, discipline-specific requirements, pricing; 2. during the deposit process: how to provide metadata, how to chose access categories, how to upload the...

This webpage summarizes legal information of importance for the deposit of data files in EASY and for the use of data from EASY. It contains brief information about license agreement and general conditions of use, as well as DANS privacy regulation, liability and intellectual property rights. Fro...

The report contains general guidelines on how to determine what research data should be preserved for the long term and what data should not. These guidelines can be used by individual researchers or research groups, researchers who co-operate within a collaboratory, research institutes, universi...

The web page contains information about the liability of DANS for datasets and metadata, as well as the citation rules.

This Webpage provides brief information about the costs of depositing data at DANS. There are no fixed prices, rates are determined by several factors, for example specific needs and requirements attached by the deposit.