<jats:p>This article describes how virtual research environments (VREs) offer new opportunities for researchers to analyse open data and to obtain new insights for policy making. Although various VRE-related initiatives are under development, there is a lack of insight ...

<jats:p>Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, ...

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 gui...

Het doel van deze verkenning was om de situatie in Nederland te beschrijven ten aanzien van de duurzaamheid van wetenschappelijke digitale onderzoeksobjecten. Dit levert in eerste instantie een tegenstrijdig beeld op. Feit is dat er in Nederland maar weinig organisaties...