ABSTRACT
The amount of digitally available research data is growing continuously. Unfortunately, when scientific resources are made available on-line, they are not always published with reliable and consistent metadata. This complicates the retrieval of these research data, which in turn poses a serious threat to an effective reuse of digital resources. A promising approach to improvement of the access to research data is through the enhancement of the traditional publication. This entails that publications are enriched with references to the primary data that were used to produce the insights that are put forward in this text. Scientific publications and research data are currently shared and disseminated through largely the same channels, and publishing these resources in conjunction is now more and more a realistic option. Through Enhanced Publications, researchers can be forwarded effectively to relevant sources, such as underlying data collections, models and algorithms. Such resources can normally not be incorporated fully in the actual publication, but the presence of pointers to the primary data, which are stored separately, should contribute greatly to an improved accessibility of this information. In a sense, the scientific publication will function as metadata for the research data.
