Research Data and Humanities: an European overview

The article examines research data practices in the Humanities within the European area. The great attention paid to research data in European policies on research confirms their strategic role in the development and optimization of the scientific research. The analysis of some research infrastruct...

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Main Author: Maura Funari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-08-01
Series:JLIS.it
Online Access:http://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/236
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Summary:The article examines research data practices in the Humanities within the European area. The great attention paid to research data in European policies on research confirms their strategic role in the development and optimization of the scientific research. The analysis of some research infrastructures and projects focused on research data in the Humanities shows how the European Member States can act centrally in improving and developing them, in order to make efficient individual activities and to reduce the lack of homogeneity, and to support the presence of easily identifiable, usable and integrated systems.
ISSN:2038-1026