Developments on the Internet are resulting in many new facilities for storing primary and secondary research data and making it accessible. This also creates possibilities for re-using data. SURFshare initiates projects for storing and preserving data.
SURFshare is working with the 3TU Data Centre, DANS, and the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD) to ensure permanent access to data. These organisations jointly form a research data forum.
To ensure transparent access to research data, it is important to clarify the legal aspects of the data. At the behest of SURFshare, the Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER) at Utrecht University has drawn up a report on these matters. The report clarifies the issues concerned in legal protection for research data. The report considers situations in which researchers utilise other researchers’ data in their own research and situations in which a researcher wishes to protect his own raw data. The main focus is on researchers who re-use other researchers’ data.
The 3TU Data Centre began a study early in 2009 on “Valuable Data and Services”. This project focuses on identifying the perceived additional benefits of “publishing” data sets in a data archive. It is intended to produce a survey of the functional demands and requirements for working with a data repository for storing technical research data.
There will be more projects for data storage and curation at a later date.
More information and contact
For more information, contact Wilma Mossink on +31 (0)30 234 6600.