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she wants the data to be available as a separately citable item, counted in all
significant citation scores;
she wants to be sure that any reader of her research paper in journal AAA can
easily link to the datasets and the related software.
SCENARIO : the library
A National library in Europe has changed its policy to broaden its scope of their
digital collection. From now on, data sets and accompanied tools for analysis of
that data (software) in the field of Social Science and Humanities are part of their
digital collection plan. In conjunction with that, they have adjusted their existing
digital archive to also cope with digital material other than electronic scientific
papers, book and magazines. To do so, they put in place extra preservation strate-
gies that deal with this new type of content such as an emulation delivery service
for running research software. Furthermore, they enriched their catalogue func-
tionality with a linking mechanism for data sets and improved Digital Rights
Management to allow several levels of access such as “open access all time”,
“open access after X period”, “restricted access - only after author's approval”.
However, the descriptive information of the data will always be open.
With the new functionality in place, the National library is technically speaking
ready for accepting data and software. To ensure researchers and their institutes
are aware of this, they started a audit and certification procedure so that they can
proof that their organisation is a trusted place for research output. In parallel,
the library contacted several research organisations in their domain to set up
archiving agreements. Part of these agreements is that researchers should spent
a minimum amount of their valuable time to selection and archiving research
data. The library committed themselves to this by building flexible tools for selec-
tion and “metadata” capture in cooperation with the research organisations.
Furthermore, they will offer training courses of 2 days for each researcher that
will start using the archive. In turn, each research institute pays a yearly fee for
depositing the research output at the library. Also, the institutes are intended to
form an international group of experts that will support the developments of data
standards and selection procedures in their domain.
SCENARIO : the funding organization
As part of a significant new research initiative, a national funding organisation
in Europe issues a call for research proposals in the area of behavioural social
sciences. The theme is about eating habits of adolescents, to be measured and
collected and analysed over a period of 25 years, with reporting on trends every
5 years. The call is hugely oversubscribed but the multitude of proposals deliver
a wide spectrum with some very interesting different approaches. The aspects to
 
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