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Best Practices/Bottom-up organisation
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Title
Bottom-up organisation
Short Description
Find others with similar problems and try to solve it jointly.
Why?
In case of new technology needs to be used, it most probably causes many problems: it needs programming, budget, education of people, etc. These efforts and costs may be shared with others having the same problems.
Intended Outcome
The expected outcome is a jointly managed set of tools to overcome technological difficulties or to provide new types of services. It may have a legal form such as an association. The costs of operation are divided, and the results (services, source code, teaching material, etc.) are accessible to all partners.
Relationship to PSI-Directive
All
Possible Approach
Governments or larger bodies are often slow to react to emerging needs. On the other hand, this solution may be more cost effective than using purely commercial solutions. The need may be so marginal that commercial solutions do not evolve. This was the case for example for persistent and reliable archival of small journals, for research data management and discovery, etc. In both cases university alliances were formed.
How to Test
Can I assign DOIs to my data? I have to see how I can join DataCite, and use their services.
Evidence
DataCite.org
Tags
associations, cost sharing, enabling services
Status
Draft
Intended Audience
Managers, strategy makers
Related Best Practice
Contact
micsik@sztaki.hu