THE SOLUTION In 2016, KAPSARC launched an open data portal with Opendatasoft to provide researchers with critical data re- sources. The portal provides: THE CHALLENGE Within its sector, KAPSARC observed that: KAPSARC (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center) is an energy research non-profit center located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Its goal is to advance energy eco- nomics to build a more energy-sustainable future. Data is often locked in PDFs, making it very difficult to search. Data is difficult to reuse. There is no simple way to plug it directly into a re- search model on third-party software. In the Middle East, India and China, 32 % of the data that researchers want comes as PDF documents. This compounds the challenge of reusing their data, especially given differ

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