Data for International Social Science Research: what we have and what we need

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Data for International Social Science Research
what we have and what we need

• K. Schürer
• UK Data Archive, Essex
• President, CESSDA

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CURRENT
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Geographies of data access
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Sources of data production

• Academic
• Commercial
• Governmental
• Impact of decline in public funding and business
  investment?

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Limitations of cross-border data discovery and
transfer

• Authorisation of use
• Legal issues / Data Protection
• Security
• Demand
• Lack of interoperability / google
• Language / adequate metadata

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Comparative data

• Made
• Crafted
• Glued
• Mashed

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FUTURE
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Technical requirements and interfaces

• AAA
• Grid
• Secure settings
• Common development (ADAT)
• Trusted respositories

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New metadata standards

• Standards, standards, standards
• DDI v3.0, Inspire
• OAIS
• OAI
• Mappings

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New data types

• Longitudinal/cohort data
• Continuous surveys
• Transaction data
• Observational data
• Administrative data
• Disclosive data

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New secure access mechanisms

• Safe data
• Safe people
• Safe places
• Safe virtual settings
• International data transfers

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New methodologies for matching/linking

• Question banks, variable searching
• Mapping classifications
• Geo-referencing
• Grid HPC
• Google
• Imagination

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New alliances with data disseminators data
producers

• Commercial providers/Google
• NSIs, government departments agencies
• Non-social science domains
• Institutional repositories

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Organisational and legal requirements

• ESFRI
• cessda-ERI other ERIs
• IASSIST
• IFDO
• IDF