Preliminary analysis: Introduction of FAIR data in Denmark
The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education has commissioned Oxford Research and Højbjerre Brauer Schultz to carry out a preliminary analysis of the potential for implementing FAIR data in Denmark.
National Strategy for Data Management
In February 2014 The Danish Rectors College, DeIC and DEFF etablished ”The Steering Group for National Data Management” with members appointed from Universities Denmark, the Danish Royal Library, The State and University Library and the Danish National Archives with the purpose to ensure that Denmark, in a collaboration between the prime stakeholders, got a national strategy for research data management.
The vision is to ensure Denmark a better and more competitive research through efficient collection, securing, dissimination and re-use of relevant research data.
The strategy was published in 2015 and is accessible on the website of DeIC - Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation.
The Danish Data Archive
The Danish Data Archive is part of the Danish National Archives and makes research data based on questionnaires accessible to researchers and students. Grants from the Danish Council for Independent Research to research projects within health science and social science are usually provided with a general obligation to deliver research data to The Danish Data Archive.
Statens Serum Institut (SSI)
SSI is a public enterprise under the Danish Ministry of Health. SSI gathers and disseminates data about the population’s state of health and data regarding activity, economy and quality in the Danish health service. The gathered data is for payment made accessible for researchers.
Statistics Denmark
Statistics Denmark contains an extensive collection of register data, with data collected from the 70s to the present. Through the Division of Research Services at Statistics Denmark authorised research institutions can for payment gain access to data needed in order to solve specific research tasks and analysis tasks.