Library & Archive projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

NICHE projects and other capacity building projects in ODA countries

Institutions involved: depends on the project

Funding: NUFFIC

The Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE) is a Netherlands-funded development cooperation programme aimed at strengthening institutional capacity in developing countries for providing post-secondary education and training.

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For more information on capacity building projects contact Drs. M. Th. Koelen

RECENTLY FINISHED PROJECTS

ESCAPE-2

Institutions involved: UT

Duration: July 2010 – July 2011

Funding: SURF

Escape -1 has resulted in a successful generic tool for making aggregates of objects that are related by content; Escape -2 is developing this further.

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3TU.Datacentrum

Institutions involved TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, UT

Duration: February 2007- December 2011

Funding: 3TU federation

The aim of the project is to set up a data centre for the beta and technical sciences.

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Podium Plus

Institutions involved: UU (Chair), UT, DANS, 3TU.Datacentrum

Duration: September 2010- June 2011

Funding: SURF

Pilot project of Dataverse Network (DVN) as an aid for saving and describing data sets and for sharing data with other researchers.

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CARDS: Controlled Access to Research Data, Stored Securely

Institutions involved: VU (Chair), UvA, UvT, UL, UT, DANS, 3TU.Datacentrum

Duration: February-December 2011

Funding: SURF

The aim of CARDS is to offer concrete help to researchers when independently managing (saving and sharing) their research data.

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For all finished projects: for further information contact Dr.ir. Maarten van Bentum