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Do We Need to Preserve Research Data?
Taina JääskeläinenFSD
Forskning – Arkiv – Forskning31 May 2007
Can researchers use their own data 10 years from now?
Collection time period?
Sampling procedure?
Why can’t I open the data?
Variable names?
Research data – current situation
• Most existing data sets in the hands of primary researchers
• A third in the department/unit
• Not in any database
• 10% have guidelines on preservation
Proportion of reusable data
30
6
15
16
34
0 10 20 30 40
Can't say
Over 75 %
51-75 %
20-50 %
Less than 25 %
Pro
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sab
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respondents (%)
Barriers to reusing existing data
• Insufficient documentation (54%)• Lack of informed consent (47%)• Confidentiality issues (43%)• Not relevant for current study topics (43%)• IT problems (e.g. obsolete format) (38%)• Other legal problems (31%)• Ethical problems (23%)
OECD Principles for Access to Research Data from Public Funding
• Openness
• Diversity
• New research
• New or alternative hypothesis and analysis methods
• New topics
• Education
Advantages for funders
• No overlapping data collection
• Financial benefits: data used more efficiently
Advantages for the scientific community
• Increased interaction and co-operation
• Verifiability, repeatibility
• Equality of access
• Improved teaching
• Improved research
Advantages for researchers
• Long-term preservation of own data
• More visibility
• Longitudinal research
• Cross-national research
• Comparative research
Researchers: barriers to openness
• Lack of informed consent
• Workload for preparing data for archiving
• Confidentiality issues
• Concern regarding future use of data
• Loss of competitive advantage
Data archives 1
• Anonymisation
• Produce and enrich metadata
• Access agreements, conditions of use agreements
• Copyright: embargo, permission to use
• Migration: use of standard formats
Data archives 2
• Support to data collectors and secondary users
• More visibility
• Study descriptions in English, data translations
• Cessda data portal: www.cessda.org
Finnish Social ScienceData Archive
• Acquires, processes, preserves and disseminates digital data
• Secondary use• Social sciences• National resource• Quantitative and qualitative• Research and teaching• Nearly 800 data sets
Opinions on openness of own data
1
8
15
43
33
0 20 40 60
Very negative
Fairly negative
Neither positive nor negative
Fairly positive
Very positive
respondents (% )
Opinions on the ways to preserve research data
22
38
65
76
18
27
14
15
60
35
21
9
0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %
Researchersthemselves
University departments/units
Data archives for eachuniversity
National data archivesfor different disciplines
good neither bad
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