The possibilities offered by the Internet will give researchers and teaching staff broad and easy access to scientific/scholarly sources. It is not only publications that will become available but also the underlying data, models, and algorithms. Adding the underlying data and models to an article makes it easier to verify, reproduce, and re-use the results of research. An article of this kind is referred to as an “enhanced publication”.
What is an enhanced publication?
An enhanced publication is a publication – usually a text – that has been enhanced with additional material. The publication may be an article in a journal, a dissertation, a report, a memorandum, or a chapter in a book. It must involve scientific or scholarly research and contain an interpretation or analysis of primary data or something derived from it. The supplementary material may consist, for example, of research data, illustrative images, metadata sets, or post-publication data such as comments or rankings. The option of changing post-publication data allows an enhanced publication to develop over the course of time.
An enhanced publication can also utilise other enhanced publications and the associated data sources. One enhanced publication can therefore form part of another. An enhanced publication can be considered a compound object centred around a (scientific) publication.
Collaboration
SURFshare collaborates with universities, DANS (Data Archiving and Network Services), the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), the 3TU Data Centre, and other relevant organisations and institutions in developing an infrastructure for enhanced publications. There is also a great deal of collaboration with international partners in the context of Knowledge Exchange (JISC in the United Kingdom, DFG in Germany, DEFF in Denmark) and within the DRIVER II project, which is financed in the context of the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Tenders
SURFshare put out calls for tender in 2007 and 2008 in the context of enhanced publications, resulting in two projects in 2007 and five projects in 2008. For more information about the tender projects, go to SURFshare Tender Projects.
More information and contact
Download the SURFshare flyer on Enhanced Publications.
For more information, contact John Doove on +31 (0)30 234 6600.