Research data : Données de recherche: un potentiel insoupçonné

The toolkit, along with a companion document that discusses roles for libraries in the management of research data, will provide readers with a general understanding of the current state of research data in Canada and internationally, and offer suggestions to begin addressing the issues involved. [...] Planning The US National Science Foundation data management throughout the and support from data professions describes digital data as both life-cycle of the data, beginning at the at the initial stages of the research the products of research and, time they are first envisioned. [...] In the US, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $100 million funding program called States “Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)” 6. The program is developing “new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data streams by creating a set of exemplar national an [...] To build on this, the Consortium of Research Libraries in the UK and Ireland, and the IT Directors Group undertook a study to assess the feasibility and costs of developing and maintaining a national shared digital research data service for the UK Higher Education sector. The study concluded that considerable efforts are being made in other countries to surface and exploit data on a national or re [...] Canada In October 2000, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the National Archivist of Canada established a Working Group of research and archival experts and asked them to assess the need for a national research data access, preservation and management system.