Include Swissuniversities National Strategy and Action Plan for Open Research Data in Documentation

[maehr]

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Background

The project currently follows best practices for open data as outlined in The Turing Way. To further align with national guidelines, it would be beneficial to include information from the Swissuniversities National Strategy and Action Plan for Open Research Data.

Suggested Changes

1. Add a new section in the README.md under "How this template helps you" to discuss the Swissuniversities guidelines.
2. Include a hyperlink to the Swissuniversities page for readers to get more detailed information.
3. Briefly summarize the key points from the Swissuniversities guidelines that are relevant to the project.

Benefits

• Aligns the project with national guidelines on open research data.
• Provides additional context and resources for users interested in Swiss-specific guidelines.

Tasks

• Update README.md to include a new section about Swissuniversities guidelines.
• Add hyperlink to Swissuniversities page.
• Summarize key points from Swissuniversities guidelines.

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Docs

Any links to similar examples or other references we should review?

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[maehr]

I took a quick look at the documentation:

• https://openresearchdata.swiss/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Swiss_National_ORD_Strategy_en.pdf
• https://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Hochschulpolitik/ORD/20201123_ORD_Grundlagenbericht_final__swu_.pdf
• https://openresearchdata.swiss/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/EPFL_ORD_ActionPlanV1.0_December_2021_def.pdf

I am not sure what we can derive from this for this repo at the moment. May be:

• The TRUST Principles are also relevant in this guiding principle: Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dillo, I. et al. (2020). The
  TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Sci Data 7, 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7