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After two years of research, the European
project PARSE.Insight held its final symposium on 25 June 2010. The project
results were received with enthusiasm by Brussels’ EC representative Carlos
Morais-Pires who stated to be ‘very happy to have facts about the situation in
research and to receive recommendations for the science data infrastructure in
Europe’.
Ten
major insights in research were
presented, amongst these major gaps between European countries in how to deal
with research data and researchers' reluctance to share their data while they
certainly want others' data. These findings were enforced by the outcomes of three case studies in High-Energy Physics, Earth
Observation and Social Sciences and Humanities.
In conjunction with these insights the final roadmap for a science data infrastructure in
Europe has been published. Aside from technical aspects this also addresses
organisational as well as social aspects such as incentives for researchers to
increase their willingness to share their data. Furthermore, the gap analysis tool was presented which helps analysts to
find weak spots and contradictions in stakeholder
communities.
Please visit our website
for downloading the PARSE.Insight reports:
http://www.parse-insight.eu/publications.php
Apart from these documents, PARSE.Insight
created an online
visualisation of actors putting effort in digital preservation. This
Interactive Map is a first attempt to give an overview of who is playing an
important role in research to digital preservation. Via this map researchers,
data managers, publishers, funders and other stakeholders that would like to
learn more about best practices in preservation can look for an organisation in
their country or discipline.
On behalf of the project
team,
David Giaretta
About
PARSE.insight
PARSE.Insight was a two-year project co-funded by the
European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the
preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through
analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is
how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is
accessible, usable and understandable in future. The rapid pace of change in
information technology threatens media, file formats and software with
obsolescence, and changing concepts and terminology also mean that, even if data
can be read, it might not be correctly interpreted by future
generations.
Many
initiatives are already under way in this area. Therefore, PARSE.Insight aimed
to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the science data
infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of
scientific digital information in Europe. The project conducted surveys and
in-depth case studies of different scientific disciplines and stakeholders and
based its results on these findings, as well as knowledge of ongoing
developments.
The
consortium consists of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC,
coordination), National Library of the Netherlands (KB), German National Library
(DNB), Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG), International Association of Scientific,
Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), European Space Agency ESRIN (ESA),
FernUniversitat in Hagen (FUH), European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) and Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Stiftung Oeffentlichen Rechts
(UGOE).
PARSE.Insight is closely linked to the Alliance for
Permanent Access to the Records of Science (http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/). The output
from the project is intended to guide the European Commission's strategy about
research infrastructure.
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