Post on 23-Dec-2015
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
• 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
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