Common policies and services: a pan-European data infrastructure for all
Joining EUDAT means that data centres can offer valuable insights and services to their users. This includes ensuring that users can easily share their data with their peers in other countries and in return gain easy access to data provided elsewhere. The common policies and services provided by EUDAT are a perfect tool to ensure that a data centre’s infrastructure is compatible with other research data infrastructures. EUDAT and its partners prototype new services that are potentially of interest to national users, who profit from the experiences gained in other countries in evolving national infrastructures. EUDAT provides data centres with a perfect forum to ensure that their efforts are not happening in isolation but in sync with similar efforts elsewhere, for example, it is becoming more and more important to have a strategic approach to data that focuses on data management - such as handling metadata and facilitating the replication of data – rather than just providing storage.
