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Open Data and the EUI Data Portal

22.02.13

• 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