Mit der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung von Forschung und Lehre steigt die Zahl an Software-Lösungen, die an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen entstehen und zur Verarbeitung wissenschaftlicher Daten genutzt werden. Die unter dem Stichwort Open Science geforderte Zugänglichkeit und Nachnutzung von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen kann in vielen Fachgebieten nur sichergestellt werden, wenn Forschungsdaten und Programmcode offen zugänglich gemacht werden.
The Data FAIRport initiative is an open movement started as the practical follow up of a Lorentz Workshop in Leiden, The Netherlands, January 2014, named: Jointly designing a Data FAIRport.
The participants of the workshop represented the worlds of research infrastructure and policy, publishing, the semantic web and life sciences research.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has now made its research data accessible to the public in support of the European Commission’s strategy on Open Science for improved circulation of knowledge and thus innovation for generating growth.
The Dataverse Project is an open source software application to share, cite and archive data. Dataverse provides a robust infrastructure for data stewards to host and archive data, while offering researchers an easy way to share and get credit for their data.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
The RDA vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
We want to help make data more accessible and more useful; our purpose is to develop and support methods to locate, identify and cite data and other research objects.