DANS, the Netherlands Data Archiving and Networked Services, has published a video
to promote storing and sharing data within the research community. The video is
available in Dutch and English, and shown on the DANS Youtube channel. The title
of the English video is 'Sharing data: good for science, good for you': http://youtu.be/HJbo-OAaJ1I
"Scientific research
produces data. The lifetime of these data varies greatly. Stored on a hard disk
or USB stick they are likely to be lost in the near future together with the
storage medium. Luckily, there is another, more sustainable option, which
benefits science.'
In this video Dutch
historian Martijn Kleppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam) explains why he opened
up his big photo database for other researchers to use, and quantitative data
analyst Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) speaks about the
treasures in data archives that are waiting to be discovered by
researchers.
Both scientists made use of
the online archiving system EASY from DANS (Data Archiving and Networked
Services) in the Netherlands. As an institute of KNAW and NWO, DANS promotes
sustained access to digital research data."