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.
Download the SURFshare flyer on Enhanced Publications.
Projects
SURFshare initiated several projects in 2008 and 2009. Universities experimented with Enhanced Publications
• JALC – Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries - Dissertations in Dutch Archaeology
• DatapluS - Repositories for Enhanced Survey Publications
• ESCAPE - Enhanced Scientific Communication by Aggregated Publications Environments
• Proefschriften Plus - Enhanced dissertations in the Utrecht repository
• Veteran Tapes VP - Enhanced publication based on multidisciplinary reuse of qualitative research files
• CORF/OA+ - Collectieve Onderwijs Research Faciliteit
• Samen in Delen - Enhanced Publications Universiteit van Tilburg en Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Videos
A series of short films on Enhanced Publications describes what such publications are and why this new technique offers researchers added value. The films are based on lessons learned in five different innovation projects carried out within the context of the SURFshare programme in 2009. The overall promotional video has English subtitles.
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).
The DRIVER II project, financed in the context of the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), resulted in two publications on Enhanced Publications:
• Enhanced Publications: Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories.
• Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology
For more information, contact John Doove on +31 (0)30 234 6600.