Selection of Research Data. Guidelines for appraising and selecting research data. A report by DANS and 3TU.Datacentrum

Although a great deal of research data should be preserved, either for use/reuse or to validate research results, that is not true of all such data. To determine which research data are valuable sources or resources for research, we have developed a set of practical guidelines in the form of a checklist. It should be emphasised that this...

Building a 'data repository' for heterogenous technical research communities through collaborations

The paper describes the project ‘3TU.Datacentrum’, an initiative of the libraries of the three Dutch Technical Universities. Its aim is to build a data curation facility for the improvement of data management, providing data curation services for data producers of the Technical Universities and enabling data reuse. The libraries initiated this...