Acquiring datasets is a lot of work. It means a lot of talking and explaining. We had meetings with the management of the Schools. Mails are sent to leaders of research groups and to individual researchers. We have a (growing) list of 62 names that we want to contact. We contact as much as possible researchers with which the library already has collaborated in the past. But old contacts can lead to new ones; expanding our network. We already contacted 2/3 of the names on the list; in most cases we mail first and then make an appointment. The result until now is that we collected 6 datasets, but we are just starting. In many cases researchers are sympathetic to the idea, but first want to organise (and archive) their data better. This means that ideally we collaborate with the researchers in the different phases of their research. If successful one contact can be good for connecting datasets to several publications. We located more than 60 publications with Tilburg authors that are based on one (longitudinal) dataset. Hopefully we can use these 60 publications in our project. Personal meetings are in most cases necessary to explain and convince researchers.
Een gedachte over “ODaP and the acquisition of datasets”
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Indeed, often researchers mention the fact that they haven’t organized and archived their datasets. This is my favoured moment to convince them to participate in ODaP, so that we can archive their datasets and link them to the publication for which the datasets are used.