Introduction With this poster we would like to present the Dutch Diary Archive (DDA) and the European Diary Archives and Collections Network (EDAC) to a larger community in the Benelux Countries. The poster also explains the way the collection of the DDA is connected to the European Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) and informs the audience about our ongoing activities. Teenage Diaries “We were talking about hair and stuff and then Tom said: ‘Our Frans is very hairy. Nice and warm if you’re lying next to him.’ I think hairs are very masculine. Hairy legs and stuff, but oh, everything about Frans is manly to me. I saw him only once today. This morning in church, that’s it.” This is a fragment from a girl’s diary, written in 1961, recently published in the anthology: De Puberdagboeken - Teenage Diaries (Soeting et. al 2017). Diaries and personal chronicles like letters, autobiographies and memoirs hold more information than just the quotidian routine of the writers. They are interesting resources on many levels. The fragment above provides us with information about what’s considered masculine (in that time, place and culture), writing in dialect (the original fragment is in Dutch and uses dialect from the province Noord-Brabant) and traditions (attending church on Sundays). Once these rich resources are available they serve a number of disciplinary fields, including digital humanities, literary studies, history and linguistics. And while several institutions within the Netherlands collect these resources within the boundaries of their own collection profile, there was no central archive. For this reason, the Dutch Diary Archive (DDA) was established in 2009. Data from Diaries Since 2014 the DDA is situated at the Meertens Institute. The DDA collects diaries and other forms of life writing and promotes scholarly research on the material. The vast collection consists of thousands of written egodocuments and digital data. The DDA is also a founding member of European Diary Archives and ...