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Fig. 24.2
Responses to query “Apart from an infrastructure, what do you think is needed to guar-
antee that valuable digital research data is preserved for access and use in the future? (multiple
answers possible)”
Fig. 24.3
Responses to query “Do you think the following initiatives would be useful for raising
the level of knowledge about preservation of digital research data?”
To encourage and facilitate the behavioural changes PARSE.insight identified a
number of benefits for researchers to get their data preserved and re-used:
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Safe your data for future research: 53% of the researchers that responded on
the survey mentioned that they have experienced data created previously by
other researchers was not available (anymore). By offering a guarantee that data
deposited in a digital archive is kept for the long term, researchers do not have to
worry about taking archiving actions by themselves.
