The goal of the workshop is to discuss the interaction between research data and exploitation by various user groups. There is a growing demand to find, share and reuse research data in order to be useful for society and justify the cost of collecting and archiving research data. The workshop is organised by the Norwegian infrastructure project NorDataNet (Norwegian Scientific Data Network) in collaboration with INTAROS and other research data projects. The workshop takes place at University of Tromsø with NILU as local organiser. More information at https://www.nordatanet.no/Tromso_user_meeting_2018