Table 5

A summary of the main similarities and differences between the institutional and national technical research data services

Main similarities between case institutionsMain differences between case institutions
All case institutions had the following technical services and infrastructures available for researchers
  • Data storing and sharing services during research projects

  • Electronic lab notebooks

  • Software version control systems

  • High-Performance Computing facilities and services

All case institutions had solutions for research information management. Aalto: ACRIS (https://research.aalto.fi/) TU Delft: Research portal (https://research.tudelft.nl/), Purdue has Institutional Data Analytics and Assessment (https://www.purdue.edu/idata/)
Symplectic Elements System and use of ORCID identifiers
Differences in in-house data publishing repository development:
  • Purdue’s data stewardship team administered the PURR research data repository;

  • Delft’s Library administered the 4TU research data repository consortium common to the technical universities of Netherlands;

  • Aalto’s services did not run a dedicated repository for research data, but relied on national and European services for data publishing

Differences in national services and infrastructures
Purdue:
  • Government agency run labs

  • Agency Data archives

  • Not-for-Profit/NGOs

TU delft
  • DANS: National centre of expertise and repository for research data

  • SURF: national IT facilities for research and education

  • eScience Centre: national centre with expertise on research software

Aalto:
  • Finnish Center for Scientific Computing (CSC)

  • Finnish Social Science Data Archive (based in Tampere University)

  • FinData: Social and Health Data Permit Authority

Source(s): Table by authors

or Create an Account

Close Modal
Close Modal