Research Seminar for Mediated Culture and Information: Madeleine Dutoit (Malmö universitet), Researchers’ data sharing practices in the context of open data policies. A case study

Madeleine Dutoit presents her thesis that investigates the relationship between researcher and research data and researcher and data sharing from a researcher perspective. The results shows an unexpected complexity regarding the researchers’ perspectives on data. They shared a definite conceptualisation of data as experimental results and measurements. In parallel the term data was elastic and used inclusively for several types of information. The insights of this thesis are valuable because policymakers, research funders, developers and providers of academic support and librarians need to be able to relate to researchers’ views on data and data sharing when developing appropriate directives and satisfactory research services during the transition to open science.