Abstract
Governments and publicly-funded research organisations increasingly make research data available openly. Researchers can use this data in Virtual Research Environments (VREs) to conduct multidisciplinary data-driven research and to obtain new insights potentially for governmental policy-making. However, the requirements for such a VRE are not yet clear. The objective of this study is to elicit and define requirements for a multidisciplinary VRE that integrates Open Government Data (OGD) and open research data for public policy making. Based on a VRE case study, we elicit 13 VRE requirements related to data storage, data accessing, data curation and other aspects, and describe a use case of open data for governmental policy-making. Meeting the requirements results in a VRE that 1) overlays the existing e-Research Infrastructures to provide researchers with integrated open data from different domains, 2) offers OGD in combination with data from publicly-funded research, and 3) stimulates innovation and research collaboration.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of CeDEM16: International Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government 2016 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | CeDEM16: International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2016 - Krems, Austria Duration: 18 May 2016 → 20 May 2016 |
Conference
| Conference | CeDEM16 |
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| Country/Territory | Austria |
| City | Krems |
| Period | 18/05/16 → 20/05/16 |
Keywords
- Open data
- Virtual Research Environment
- VRE
- policy making
- research infrastructure