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Are you also curious about what exactly is an enhanced publication and how it looks like?
The first concrete results are available: within the national portal for scientific publications, NARCIS, it is now possible to search for the enhanced publications [Dutch link].

Via a sort of click-model the publications are visually related to associated items like:

• research data (i.e. numerical data, but also movies, photos et cetera)
• research project of which the publication is a result (data derived from the Dutch research database NOD)
• details of the author (s) of the publication

Together with universities and organizations such as DANS and the Royal Library, SURF has been working on understanding of and agreement on what makes a publication enhanced. The agreements include:

• describe the relationships between the components in an enriched publication
• store those items
• present them in NARCIS

While researchers were asked to experiment with creating enhanced publications, University Libraries and SURF were engaged in bringing the various enhanced publications in a similar way together so that they could be presented in NARCIS.
If only the purely textual relationships would be rendered, it would create a far from sufficient overview of the enhanced elements of the publication. A graphical presentation is essential for a good understanding of these publications. With InContext Visualiser (developed by SURF) a clear presentation of the relationships is now created.

A Beta-version of the presentation of more than 1700 enhanced publications is now available within the national portal NARCIS. The process of creating, storing and presenting enhanced publications is certainly not yet fully developed. In the course of 2012 tools will be offered to create enhanced publications in a way that they also can be presented via  NARCIS.