Introducing DANS Easy
What is DANS
DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services - is an institute under the auspices of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) which is also supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Since its establishment in 2005, DANS has been storing and making research data in the arts and humanities and social sciences but also in the geospatial sciences permanently accessible. To this end DANS itself develops permanent archiving services, stimulates others to follow suit, works closely with data managers to ensure as much data as possible is made freely available for use in scientific research.
What is DANS EASY
DANS EASY - Electronic Archiving System is open to all researchers in the arts and humanities and social sciences. It allows them to permanently store their data and to search data themselves. This includes data from the former socio-scientific Steinmetz Archive and the former Netherlands Historic Data Archive. Archaeologists can also make use of EASY to incorporate the data sets of their current research and research from the recent past. EASY gives access to a large number of research datasets. Data and documentation can be downloaded free of charge. For some datasets permission from the depositor is necessary before the data can be downloaded.
As a researcher or data manager, you can also use EASY to deposit your data and accompanying documentation. As soon as you have done so, your data will be stored in a permanent and sustainable manner. The data will be available to other researchers under the conditions you specified.
Searching for data
DANS offers 'Open Access' to a large number of data files from various disciplines. Data can be downloaded immediately and free of charge. In a few cases, prior permission from the depositor is needed. The entire collection is housed in the 'Electronic Archiving System' DANS EASY.
To be able to download the data, a onetime registration is required.
Searching for data and downloading can be done by discipline:
- Humanities - History
- Humanities – Archaeology
- Socio-cultural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Behavioural Sciences
- Life Sciences and Medicine
- Geospatial sciences
- Statistics Netherlands (CBS) Data