The Knowledge Exchange has released A Surfboard for Riding the Wave—Towards a Four Country Action Programme on Research Data.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The report not only offers an overview of the present activities and challenges in the field of research data in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom but also outlines an action programme for the four countries in realising a collaborative data infrastructure. This report is a response to the Riding the Wave report which was published by the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data. . . .
In the report four key drivers are addressed: incentives for researchers, training in relation to researchers in their role as data producers and users of information infrastructure, organisational and technical infrastructure and, finally, the funding of the infrastructure. The report offers recommendations for actions in each of these fields for the partners and others, not only in the four partner countries, but also beyond these borders.
Based on the overview of the present situation in the four Knowledge Exchange partner countries, the report formulates three long-term strategic goals:
- Data sharing will be part of the academic culture
- Data logistics will be an integral component of academic professional life
- Data infrastructure will be sound, both operationally and financially.
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