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EU, US and Australia aim to create ‘internet’ of research data
Funders in Australia, the EU and the United States have launched the Research Data Alliance, in a determined effort to enhance science data sharing worldwide.
The alliance will seek to bring together working researchers with a plethora of existing national and global initiatives across all disciplines. It says it intends to develop global, interoperable data infrastructure and promote standards and practices to make it easier and faster for scientists to share, use and reuse data.
Launch of the Research Data Alliance/Stockholm
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda
18 March 2013
I am very happy to be with you today, here in the EU, to launch the global Research Data Alliance.
Scientists have always sought new ways to share. And they've always been in the vanguard using new technologies to help them do that better.
Scientists developed the internet, for example. Its forerunner, the Computer Science Network of the eighties, was funded by the National Science Foundation; then scientists at CERN developed the worldwide web. Now it's everywhere: available to scientists and laymen, the greatest tool for sharing information ever invented.