Creating an Academic Information Domain: a Dutch Example

The KNAW presents the outcome of different projects which have resulted in the first steps towards an Academic Information Domain (AID) in the Netherlands. All Dutch academic repositories, the content of Current Research Information Systems (or CRIS’s) and the datasets available are brought together in one portal.

When creating an AID, problems such as interoperability and the relation between the data within the different systems have to be solved.

The relation between the data of different systems will be made by implementing DAI (Digital Author Identification). The DAI project, in which each individual researcher is given a unique number, will make it possible to create links between the different kinds of information and Persistent Identifiers are to be introduced to guarantee sustainable access to the data.