The NETWORKSHOP conference is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Organized by the HUNGARNET Association between March 31 and April 2, 2026, this year’s edition of the most prestigious domestic conference on computer networking and applied information technology in higher education, public education, research, and public collections will be hosted by the University of Debrecen.

This year’s multi-day program will feature lightning talks in addition to lectures, interactive presentations, tutorials, and mini-workshops. Key topics of the conference include “Data Repository Systems and Networks,” “Long-Term Preservation and Web Archiving,” “Major Trends in AI Applications: Service Developments in Content Delivery,” and “New Network Technology Solutions.”

The KDK team is participating in the program with a presentation and an interactive presentation:

• In her presentation titled “What is DDI, and how will it make the Centre for Social Sciences KDK Repository more visible?”, Júlia Egyed-Gergely will present the services, repository and archive of the KDK, as well as the system’s development plans and the possibilities for connecting to the international circulation. The presentation also covers the international Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) ecosystem and the good practices of the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Tampere, Finland).

• In their interactive presentation titled “Treasure Hunt in the ARP Data Repository,” Enikő Meiszterics, Gabriella Virág and Júlia Egyed-Gergely will present the potential role of the ARP Data Repository – which is partially operated and supported by KDK – in scientific and interdisciplinary research as well as in market applications, the potential of data reuse, the vast data resources available in the ARP repositories, and the methods for searching within them.

Further information is available on the conference website.