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Licensed Data Resources and Open Data: a research library perspective
SELL meeting, EUI23 May 2014
Thomas Bourke
Research Data: Social Sciences & Humanities
Quantitative data: numerical/statistical data in Economics, Sociology, Political Science and History/Humanities
Qualitative data: case studies, text coding/ analysis, interviews, images, maps and audio-visual materials
Traditional Library rôles
• Acquisition of paper and discs• Classification and cataloguing• Providing access: paper, free-standing disc /
network• Paper, CD-rom and reel preservation
Library Data Portal
Library Support
• Discovery (Data Portal): Both restricted & open data• Metadata as a ‘checklist’ for data use and re-use • Ontology (eg. ‘tree’ for multi-level datasets) • Assistance with Data Management Plans (DMPs)• Assistance with deposit and preservation
Where should research data be stored and made accessible?
– Registry of research data repositories: re3data.org
– Subject repositories: Gesis Datorium– International: Zenodo– Institutional data repositories– Journal archives: Political Analysis, PloS– Funding agencies’ repositories