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Building a Shared Knowledge Base for Data Donation: Join the DDP Tracker Initiative

November 3, 2026

The Data Donation Lab and the Weizenbaum Institute are developing the DDP Tracker, a collaborative knowledge base to help researchers and developers better understand and work with Data Download Packages (DDPs) from different platforms. Following a successful Data Donation Sprint in Berlin, the initiative is inviting additional contributors to join the effort. Interested in supporting the project? Fill in the questionnaire by 15 November to get involved.

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Data Donation Early Career Network

October 12, 2026

Initially starting out as a PhD network, we broadened our focus to include all early career researchers who are interested in exchange and networking around the topic of data donations.

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D3I and TDCC RIGHTS at the Data Donation Symposium 2026 in Berlin

October 9, 2026

The D3I and TDCC RIGHTS team joined the Data Donation Symposium 2026 in Berlin to discuss the future of data donation research.

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Meet Lennert: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Macroscope Project

October 1, 2026

Lennert is a postdoctoral researcher in the Macroscope project, studying how online media consumption relates to attitudes and behaviors over time through innovative data donation research.

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Workshop Recap: Towards Shared Standards for Data Donation Research

September 21, 2026

On 4 September 2026, the RIGHTS project (NWO TDCC) brought together privacy experts, data stewards, ethics committee members, and researchers at the University of Amsterdam to tackle the legal and ethical challenges of data donation research.

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Data Donation Symposium Program Available

September 8, 2026

The schedule for the 2026 Data Donation symposium has been published, featuring a keynote from Jasper Tjaden, sessions on study design decisions, use of chat bots, handling biases, substantial research, quality and augmentation, and standards/frameworks.

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Welcome our new research engineer, Erik van Haeringen

July 14, 2026

Erik van Haeringen joins D3I as a research engineer and postdoctoral researcher, focusing on platform development and supporting digital trace data research.

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Meet our new community manager, Dachi Shanidze

July 14, 2026

Dachi Shanidze joins D3I and TDCC RIGHTS as community manager, supporting project operations, administration, communication, and events.

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LISS Panel Grant 2026: One grant reserved for data donation research

July 14, 2026

The ODISSEI 2026 LISS Panel Grant call is open until 24 September 2026. Six grants are available, including one for data donation research using the representative LISS panel. Researchers from ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free panel time to collect data or run experiments in 2027.

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Build your data donation study with our new Script Builder

July 14, 2026

The new Port Script Builder helps researchers quickly create tailored Python scripts for local data processing. Select your platform and the data you want to collect, and generate a study-specific script through an easy-to-use interface.

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