What is the UK Data Service? A beginner’s guide
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What is the UK Data Service? A beginner’s guide
David MartinDeputy Director
ESRC Research Methods FestivalSt Catherine’s College, Oxford9 July 2014
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Overview
• welcome and introduction
• a brief introduction to the UK Data Service
• an infrastructure for social science data access
• range of services and data
• innovations and developments
• brief overview of rest of this session – three “sample” data collections
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UK Data Service
• ESRC has invested substantially in social science datasets, seen as an “infrastructure” for social science
• previous investments included ESRC’s Census Programme, Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and Secure Data Service (SDS)
• in summer 2012, all combined into a new integrated UK Data Service
• overarching aim: to provide users with seamless and flexible access to data resources to facilitate high-quality social and economic research
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UK Data Service
• place of deposit for data arising from ESRC-funded research• an obligation for award holders to offer data for access by other
researchers• includes ReShare self-deposit facility
• Census Support provides access to UK census datasets• major collections of UK and international survey datasets• Secure Lab for sensitive data access • training, support and guidance• free to users
• different access conditions apply to different datasets, from source
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Innovations and developments…
• Ongoing data acquisitions
• Continuous working with national statistical organisations and other key data providers on behalf of the social science research community
• Innovation projects – enhancing the service
• Data enhancement projects such as Enhancing and Enriching Historic Census Microdata
• Integration with ESRC’s new “big data” initiatives such as business and local government data research centres
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