Research data in Norway: How do expectations, demands and solutions correspond in the knowledge infrastructure for research data?

Abstract

Amounts of digital data combined with incentives for open research challenges researchers to share their research data (RD). Researchers are meeting requirements for data management plans (DMPs), and in Norway the Research Council has made it a priority to develop an infrastructure for making RD available. This project investigates how these constraints influence the researchers’ choices and how the solutions created fit with the expectations from other stakeholders. Is there a satisfying dialog between the research environments and the service providers? Do the researchers experience that their voices are heard by the infrastructure providers and the research funders? The work aims to strengthen the dialog between the stakeholders in the knowledge infrastructure (KI) for RD and contribute to an improvement of this.