MareData, an initiative for the flow of shared data

• Main Authors: Remedios MELERO-MELERO, Ernest ABADAL-FALGUERAS
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2018-10-01
• Series: Revista ORL
• Subjects: maredata; red; datos de investigación
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2444-7986/article/view/16988

Research data (or scientific data) arouse great interest in their potential use and reuse, not only by the R & D sector but also by other actors such as industry or service companies that can use them for innovation of new products or for creation of new jobs. From the point of view of research, sharing and accessing the data generated during the research activity entails multiple benefits at institutional and individual level. Institutions provide transparency in the processes of obtaining or generating data. Researchers promote collaboration between interdisciplinary groups, and avoid duplication. For society, the benefits of making data available enhance confidence in the science system and is an exercise in transparency, accountability and responsibility in the use of investment in science. Multiple forums point to the value of data and the need for collaboration among all stakeholders, since science forms a particularly complex socio-technological infrastructure, involving both the public and private sectors. The partners of the Maredata network come from seven working groups (CSIC-IATA, CSIC-INGENIO, UA, UB, UC3M, UOC, UPV) that have research lines related to the management of research data: interoperability, access, preservation, and metrics. The overall objective of this subject oriented network is to coordinate the action of these groups and to consolidate in Spain the different actors interested in research data as the fundamental basis of open science, a responsible, transparent and accessible science. By consolidating the collaboration between the working groups, it will be possible to address research data issues in a multidimensional manner, and promote cross-cutting synergies that will enable the industrial sector, the infomedia sector and Spanish society in general to be reached.