Why does DANS launch a data station for the Physical and Technical Sciences?

There are several reasons for setting up this DANS Data Station for the Physical and Technical Sciences. First, DANS is a national institute for scientific data, providing repository services for all scientific disciplines. DANS is not affiliated to any particular universities, scientific institutes or Universities of Applied Research. We do not want to exclude any discipline, organisation or scientist from our services. If an engineer, architect, chemist or physicist, for whatever reason, wants to use a DANS Data Station, they should be able to do so using a dedicated data station. Another reason for setting up the Data Station for the Physical and Technical Sciences, is that the previous DANS repository EASY contained datasets from these disciplines. DANS is responsible for the curation and maintenance of these datasets. The only way to continue this responsibility is to set up our own data station for these data.