Open Data

23 October 2014

• A growing trend among scholars, government agencies and international organisations to share data outputs, codebooks and software.

• Data in the Social Sciences & Humanities– Numerical data for scholarly research: economics,

sociology, political economy, economic history &c.– Qualitative: case studies, text coding/analysis,

interviews, images.

Data 'cycle'

• Research Data Management– Science funders increasingly require DMPs– Data security: especially micro data– Keep record of dataset changes, variables,

software versions and pre-agreed terms of disclosure

http://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/ResearchGuides/Economics/ResearchDataGuide.aspx

• Metadata for data output– Title, names of creator(s)– Description - 'data abstract'– Source(s)– Creation date– Spatial / temporal coverage– Format– Location of data & DOI– Access status and embargo– Licence– Funding Statement– Related publications

• Open data check

• Open data check• Data protection: For data sets where persons, households or

firms are identified - it is normally not possible to publish data openly. In such instances, it may be possible (pending terms) to generate an anonymised version of the data for sharing.

• Database copyright: Where a research dataset is derived/elaborated from pre-existing, commercially-licensed database(s), it is normally not possible to re-publish significant extractions due to copyright protection and contractual terms of use.

• Contact the Library for advice

Licensing / IP / Copyright

•Assistance and 'brokering'•Research team ↔ Library ↔ Data © owner

http://fsr.eui.eu/CPRU/EUTLTransactionData.aspx

Open data Data protection

Copyright

← Macro Micro →

"Micro data access restrictions are increasing"

– U.C. Berkely Data Librarian at U.S. Federal Reserve data conference, September 2014

Archiving & Access

Locating repositories

Support

• Badia Library Info. Office 2346– Weekday mornings and Tue. & Thurs. afternoons

• Departmental Information Desk 2904– Mon., Wed., & Fri. afternoons

• econlibrary@eui.eu