Dutch ministry to continue with memorandum Scientific Information Provision

Before this year finishes, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science will publish a memorandum on how to deal with digital information in scientific research. The September issue of the quarterly magazine e-data&research recently reported on it. 

The Ministry, then headed by cabinet member Maria van der Hoeven, was already working on a memorandum for dealing with data and research information in 2006. The draft ended up in a drawer after changes in cabinet members and political priorities, says e-data&research (in Dutch). The magazine quotes policy officer Louise Perbal of the Ministry’s Directorate of Research and Science, who emphasizes that it’s among other things the idea of Open Access that motivated current Minister Plasterk in his decision to continue with this topic. The memorandum will draw on the earlier work, but also on the Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey presented in early July by the <Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation | http://www.ncdd.nl/>.