The document discusses the Dutch approach to research data infrastructure, highlighting the roles and achievements of organizations like SURF and DANS. It outlines various initiatives and collaborations aimed at improving data management, preservation, and accessibility, while facing challenges in government policy coherence. Future goals include expanding services beyond social sciences and enhancing international collaboration in research infrastructures.

1. The Dutch Approach to Research Data Infrastructure Peter Doorn (DANS), Marc Dupuis (SURF), Maurice Vanderfeesten (SURF) ANDS Invitational Research Data Infrastructure Workshop, Prato, April 11-13, 2011 Data Archiving and Networked Services &

2. Overview The context: Dutch research data infrastructures and policies The role of SURF and DANS: achievements SURF DANS Future plans and requirements

3. Dutch research data infrastructures and policies Recent attempts to formulate a coherent government policy failed Nevertheless, strong building blocks do exist: National Roadmap for Large-scale Research Facilities (first version 2008) Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (since 2008) Big Grid (2008-2012) 3TU.Datacentrum (since 2008) Netherlands eScience Center (started 2011) SURF (since 1986) DANS (since 2005)

4. National Roadmap Connected to ESFRI Roadmap First version: 2008 25 facilities in five research domains Six funded so far, others on the way (M€ 20 p.yr.) Data (management, storage, quality, standards, linking, metadata) issues play an important role in the majority of the infrastructures Update next summer/autumn (additional M€ 80)

5. Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD) Public sector organisations whose remit includes long-term access to digital data: Royal Library DANS National Archives Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Museum/cultural sector

6. Big Grid Collaboration between NCF , Nikhef and NBIC Nation-wide grid-based e-Science research infrastructure to manage the distributed data explosion Grid-enabled data storage and processing facilities Human support for many scientific disciplines, ranging from particle physics and life sciences to social sciences and humanities

7. 3TU.Datacentrum Center of Exellence of the 3TU.Federation (3 Technical Universities Data archive specific for technical-scientific research Mission : permanent accessibility of technical-scientific research data . Engaging data storage during research programs and projects. And provide access to data stored elsewhere in the world. Store : Long-term Sustainability provides Research Reliability; Long term data management Access : Search and Reuse; access rights management Cite : DOI and DataCite ; labeling with a familiar brand Impact : connecting datasets to publications with Enhanced Publications increases impact: info:doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308 http://datacentrum.3tu.nl

8. Netherlands eScience Center Initiative by SURF and NWO (Research Funding Organisation for Dutch HE) Focus on multi-disciplinary and data-intensive scientific and scholarly research Stimulate innovation of research using ICT Link to eHumanities Group of KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts & Sciences) Budget is 6 M€ per year

9. SURF Dutch organisation for ICT in higher education and research (age: 25 years!) Membership organisation with over 60 members paying an annual fee Latest strategic plan covers the years 2011-2014 Main pillars of SURF: SURFfoundation ( general innovation department) SURFnet (high capacity academic network provider) SURFdiensten (services and licensing) SURFfoundation’s three main programmes: e-Research e-Learning e-Administration

10. SURF e-Research data activities SURF facilitates/supports/chairs/manages Working group of repository managers Research Data Forum Guidelines for storing and preserving data DiPPP (Data in Publicly Private Projects) Explores implications of Open Access for research data and usage rights CARDS project Supports researchers in storing and managing data

11. SURF and e-Research e-Research programme has its own multi-year programme Current SURFshare programme ends 31/12/11 Main fields of interest: Enhanced publications Collaboratories Infrastructure and architecture Data management

12. Data Archiving and Networked Services Mission: providing permanent access to research data Founded in 2005 by the KNAW and NWO, but roots go back to 1964 Focus area: humanities and social sciences (sociology, political science, geography, history, archaeology, language and literature studies) Discipline-independent activities and services: Data Seal of Approval, persistent identifiers, etc.

13. Online archiving system

14. NARCIS.nl: Research Information

15. www.volkstellingen.nl

16. Shipping logs in the Golden Century

17. 5 Criteria 16 guidelines The research data: can be found on the Internet are accessible (clear rights and licenses) are in a usable format are reliable can be referred to (persistent identifier) 11-04-11 Data Seal of Approval

18. Joint SURF-DANS activities Persistent Identifier Infrastructure (URN - PERSID) Knowledge Exchange OpenAire Research Data Forum Several “Enhanced Publication” projects Several studies & reports about aspects of data infrastructure Legal issues & data licenses CARDS (Controlled Access to Research Data Stored securely) project to find solutions for “orphaned data”

19. Challenges and policy priorities for the future SURF: Support researchers with enhanced publications Bring research data management (storage, preservation, access, sharing) in the centre of the focus Help HEIs to make appropriate use of cloud solutions Encourage further collaboration between HEIs in the national context Collaborate with international (primarily European) partners, in particular the Knowledge Exchange consortium (NL, DE, DK, UK)

20. Challenges and policy priorities for the future DANS strategic goals 2011-2015: Connecting content and community: data, publications, research informa- tion (researchers, projects, institutes) Expanding services to domains outside of SSH (eg. technical universi- ties, healthcare research) Research into Data Life Cycle (creating, enriching, processing, storing, accessing) International collaboration in European & World Wide Research Infrastructures

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