Knowledge Exchange
The purpose of Knowledge Exchange is to develop digital infrastructures and services for the benefit of research and higher education.
The purpose of Knowledge Exchange is to develop digital infrastructures and services for the benefit of research and higher education.
Knowledge Exchange is an international collaboration between six national organizations in Europe: CSC, Jisc, SURF, DFG and CNRS. The collaboration was established in 2005.
The work area of Knowledge Exchange is Open Science, including Open Access.
DeiC is a Danish member of Knowledge Exchange and coordinates Danish participants in the organization's activities and projects and disseminates knowledge to Danish universities and other stakeholders.
Knowledge Exchange strategy and organization
The strategy for 2020 and beyond has three themes:
- FAIR data and software supporting reproducibility
- Changing evaluation in the context of Open Scholarship
- Scholarly communication and publication models of the future including plan S principles and implementation
Knowledge Exchange has associated one or more expert groups across the member countries. Experts are invited to participate by the partner organizations, who continuously exchange knowledge about the group's focus areas and help develop best practices and recommendations.
The group also initiates projects and publishes reports and other material aimed at the public.
Danish KE experts
- Anne Thorst Melby, University of Southern Denmark, SDUB
- Jesper Boserup Thestrup, Aarhus University Library (AUL), KB
- Rasmus Rindum Riise, Copenhagen University Library (KUB), KB
- Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen, Copenhagen Business School, CBS Library
- René Belsø, DeiC
- Kaare Aaagard, Aarhus University
- Mareike Buss, Copenhagen Business School, CBS Library
Knowledge Exchange is an international collaboration between six national organizations in Europe: CSC, Jisc, SURF, DFG and CNRS. The collaboration was established in 2005.
PID: risk and trust
The purpose of the project is to investigate the operation and development of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier (PID) infrastructure. PID is a unique identifier for digital objects that can support modern digital research processes and contribute to Open Science and FAIR data management. There are many types of PIDs, DOIs for publications and datasets or Orcid for researchers to name a few. The following deliverables are planned:
- Case studies of PID infrastructures in the KE countries
- Analysis of risk and trust aspects of PID infrastructures.
- Recommendations to stakeholders on how to reduce risk and increase trust in a well-functioning PID infrastructure.
The project is led by Josefine Nordling, CSC and Frank Manista, JISC, for Knowledge Exchange. Rene Belsø, DeiC is the technical leader of the project.
Open Science merit
The project is about improving the evaluation of research and researchers. Knowledge Exchange wants to create more recognition of contributions to Open Science and has therefore developed a proposal for a tool called Openness profile, which can highlight data management, FAIR data and other Open Science activities and can be included in research evaluations. Lorna E. Wildgaard (The Royal Library) participates as a Danish expert in the project. The project is led by Josefine Nordling (CSC) and Jean-Francois Nominé (CNRS).
Publishing reproducible research output
The project is about making it easier for researchers to publish reproducible data. In this European project, Knowledge Exchange explores opportunities to improve social and technical infrastructures in relation to reproducible publishing. Birte Christensen Dalsgaard (Aarhus University) participates as a Danish expert in the project. The project is led by Juliane Kant (DFG) and Anna Mette Morthorst from DeiC.
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