Post on 27-Mar-2015
• Access to Statistical Data
– The EUI Data Portal– Open Data
• The EUI Data Portal– Library licensed resources– Indexing and description – Access, registration and data protection– Off-campus and exceptions
• Open DataGrowing trend among scholars, government agencies and international organisations to share data outputs, codebooks and software.
• Discovery, Repositories & Archives
– National: eg.Statistics Canada–Multi-disciplinary: Dataverse, GESIS
– Discipline/cluster: NBER– Journal archives: Econometrica, PloS– Institutional data repositories
• Data Support - Library• Support desks: Badia Library and VSP• Training, listservs and networks
• Data Support - ICT• Research software• Infrastructure: Citrix• Technical support
• Data Outputs– Data from research projects• Institutionally-generated, large and medium-
scale research and survey projects• EUDO, RDP/DReMM
– Data from individual scholars• Related to specific research projects and
publications: data elaboration, mix of data sources, surveys.
• Data Outputs and Planning•Data Management Plans•Metadata, documentation• Formats, code and visualisation•Open dissemination strategies• Licensing• Preservation and archiving
• Data Outputs and Planning
Open Research Data Handbook (February 2013) Digital Curation Ctr. data preservation & sharing Open Economics working group guidelines American Economic Association guidelines on data
NSF guidelines for social and economic data
• Data: Social Sciences & Humanities– Numerical data for scholarly research:
Economics, Sociology, Political Economy, Economic History &c.
– Qualitative: coded data, cases, images.
• The Data Deluge– ‘Free Our Data’– Indexing of ‘Big Data’– Personal data
• Propensity towards Open Data– Data from research projects – Data from individual scholars–Macro data (ECB, W.B., states)–Micro-socioeconomic data– Financial data– HFDF
Next Step...
New EUI Data Handbook
Crowd-editing: June
Launch: September
Open Data and the EUI Data Portal
22.02.13