The Data Infrastructure in Eastern Europe Current Situation and Prospects

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The Data Infrastructure in Eastern Europe
Current Situation and Prospects
Brigitte Hausstein (Central Archive
Cologne/Berlin, Germany) Larisa Kosova/Ludmila
Khahulina (Russian Social Data Archive at IISP,
Moscow) Janez Stebe (Slovenian Data Archive,
University of Ljubljana)
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Topics

• Development of Social Science Data Archives in
  Eastern Europe
• EDAN Its Aims and Activities
• Prospects of further Networking
• The Russian Sociological Data Archive 5 Years of
  Growth
• The Slovenian Data Archive (ADP)

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ZA Cooperation with Eastern Europe

• Promote the transfer of knowledge, exchange of
  data, development of networks
• Provide users access to multiple data sources
  contained in the (West) European and American
  Data Archives
• Support the development of archive initiatives in
  Eastern Europe

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Development of Social Science Data Archives in
Eastern Europe before 1990

• Hungary TARKI (1985)

• USSR All Union Data Bank DB (1985)

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Development of Social Science Data Archives in
Eastern Europe since 1990

• Russia RSDA (2001)
• Romania RODA (2001)
• Slovakia SASD (2002)
• Bulgaria SSDA (2002)
• Poland ADS (2003)

• Estonia ESSDA (1994)
• Latvia LSZDA (1996)
• Slovenia ADP (1997)
• Czech Republic SDA (1998)

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Organisational Settings

n 11 Data Archives
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Current Situation

• Small budgets
• Lack of accumulated resources, expertise and
  personnel
• Small data collections
• Need for special training

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East European Data Archive Network
EDAN was founded at the UNESCO workshop Social
Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe in 2002

• Informal network designed to unite data archives
  which are at an early stage of their existence
  and share common problems

• Data Archives from Hungary, Estonia, Slovenia,
  Latvia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia
  Bulgaria, Poland
• Data Archive Initiatives in Lithuania, Serbia,
  Ukraine

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EDAN Aims

• Make sure that the Eastern European data
  archives will catch up with the advanced
  western data archives
• Coordinate efforts for setting up new archives
• Close co-operation with IFDO and CESSDA

EDAN Coordinator GESIS Service Agency Eastern
Europe/Central Archive
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EDAN Activities

• Workshops on meta data production (Sofia 2003,
  Ljubliana 2004)
• Joined applications to funding organisations
  (EU, ESF)
• Exchange of knowledge and experiences (Mailing
  list)

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Prospects (1)
Creating a European Infrastructure for Social
Sciences
Integrate EDAN activities under CESSDA umbrella
New Archives Group
Open to CESSDA members as well as to those
archives and archive initiatives which are
working on becoming a member
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Prospects (2)
New and small data archives need

• Encouragement and aid of CESSDA (general
  guidance, advanced seminars etc.)
• and
• Assistance and support of a group (network) which
  shares the problems of the beginners lack of
  accumulated resources, expertise and personnel,
  no participation in previous CESSDA projects.

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Prof. Erwin Scheuch (1990)
The greatest gain being always that of the
late-comers.
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Archive Reports

• The Russian Sociological Data Archive 5 Years
  of Growth
• The Slovenian Data Archive (ADP)

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Russian Sociological Data Archive
(RSDA) http//sofist.socpol.ru/
Comparing with beginning of 2002 the number of
deposited studies increased almost 10 times.
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Russian Sociological Data Archive
(RSDA)http//sofist.socpol.ru/

• Number of RSDA customers doubled during 2004
• In 2003 almost 70 of inquiries came from Moscow
  in 2004 more than 50 inquiries came from other
  regions of Russia. There are 20 regional
  universities among our new customers

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Russian Sociological Data Archive
(RSDA)http//sofist.socpol.ru/

• WE PROVIDE OUR USERS WITH
• Catalogue on-line
•  Survey title
  Fieldwork terms N
• 1.  Europe and Germany 07.06.2002 -
  24.06.2002 1753
• by Eyes of Russians
• 2. Woman of New Russia 22.12.2001 -
  15.01.2002 1406
• Search on-line
• key words
• wording
• Frequences on-line
• Monitoring of Economic and Social Changes in
  Russia 2003-7
• HOW WILL YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION CHANGE WITHIN
  NEXT 6 MONTHS?

• WE KEEP WORKING ON
• On-going seminars for users
• More than 70 participants from different Russian
  regions took part in the seminars by the moment.
• Translation
• About 90 questionnaires have been translated
  into English by the moment
• Rubricator search
• By the end of the year we are to index all
  questions in all deposited studies using
  automatic means that allows to implement
  rubricator searching (this work is conducting
  together with UIS RUSSIA)