british library social science national postgraduate training day - datasets presentation
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Social Science Datasets
September 2010
John Kaye – Social Sciences Dataset Lead
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Datasets Session
British Library Datasets Programme Economic and Social Data Service Other Sources of Data Analysis Tools Data Visualization Citing Data Depositing and Archiving
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What is a dataset?
Seismic measurements taken by a geologist.
Genetic data collected by a medical researcher.
A survey of public opinions collected by a sociologist.
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The Foundation for Research
Data is a crucial component of the scholarly record.
Re-acquisition may be impossible
Datasets are essential to the British Library’s mission to advance the World’s knowledge.
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The Datasets Programme
We envision a future where researchers can:
Discover, access, reuse, and reference datasets.
Track the impact of the data that they generate and receive appropriate credit.
Our approach is to:
Provide a focus for the community to establish needs, requirements and agreement.
Explore novel technology and creative solutions.
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Search Our Catalogue
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Search Our Catalogue (Portals)
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Projects – Search Our Catalogue (Portals)
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Resource Guides
Topical Bibliographies and Dataset Resource Guides are currently in production
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/socsci/topbib/bibliographies.html
Quantitative methods in social research (Published)Management and Business Studies (October 2010)Before End 2010:
Sport and Society and Olympics Food Studies International organisations UK government data
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Economic and Social Data Service - (ESDS)
http://www.esds.ac.uk/
ESDS Government large-scale government surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey and
the General Household Survey
ESDS International multi-nation databanks, such as World Bank's World Development
Indicators, and survey data including Eurobarometer
ESDS Longitudinal major UK surveys following individuals over time, such as the British
Household Panel Survey
ESDS Qualidata a range of multimedia qualitative data sources
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Economic and Social Data Service - (ESDS)
Data search and download
Research method guides
Thematic guides
Online analysis
Survey Question Bankhttp://surveynet.ac.uk/sqb/
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Other Sources of Data – Spatial Data
Go Geo! Searchhttp://www.gogeo.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Edina Digimap and UK Bordershttp://edina.ac.uk/digimap/http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders/
Experian Mosaic data (Geodemographics/Market Research)http://cdu.mimas.ac.uk/experian/index.htm
Landmaphttp://landmap.mimas.ac.uk/
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Other Sources of Data – UK Government
http://data.gov.uk/
Office for National Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/Default.asp
National Digital Archive of Datasets
http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Census Data – casweb
http://casweb.mimas.ac.uk/
Regional Government
http://data.london.gov.uk/
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Other Sources of Data – International Organisations
United Nations
http://data.un.org/
European Union
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
OECD
http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/
World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org/
IMF
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
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Examples of Other Sources of Data
Arts and Humanities data Service (AHDS)
http://ahds.ac.uk
Guardian Data Store
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store
Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/home/uk
Economist Intelligence Unit
http://www.eiu.com/Default.aspx
Web Archive
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
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Analysis Tools and Software
SPSS, SATAArcGIS, MapInfo, IDRISIExcelOnline Tools
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Examples of Online Analysis Tools
ESDS NESSTAR
http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk
ESDS Spatial Tools
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/gis/
Economists Online Dataverse
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/NEEO
United Nations
http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx
London Brownfield Sites Review
http://www.londonbrownfieldsites.org
CASA – Gmap Creator
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/gmapcreator.asp
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Data Visualization
Presenting data in a useful and interesting manner
Allowing concepts to be easlity understood
Lots of examples online e.g:
http://flowingdata.com/
http://datavisualization.ch/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
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Citing Data
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DataCite
DataCite is an international consortium which aims to:
Establish easier access to research data on the Internet
Increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record
Support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study
http://datacite.org/
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A Key Component for Many Goals
MakeVisible
Find
AccessTrackImpact
Verify
Reuse
Cite
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Identification
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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) offer a solution
Mostly widely used identifier for scientific articles
Researchers, authors, publishers know how to use them
Put datasets on the same playing field as articles
Connecting an Article with the Underlying Data
DatasetYancheva et al (2007). Analyses on sediment of Lake Maar. PANGAEA.doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.587840
URLs are not persistent
(e.g. Wren JD: URL decay in MEDLINE- a 4-year follow-up study. Bioinformatics. 2008, Jun 1;24(11):1381-5).
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Depositing and Archiving Data
Why Archive?Institutional RepositoriesUK Data ArchiveMetadata and Code!
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John KayeLead Content Specialist – DatasetsSocial Science Collections and ResearchThe British Library96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Telephone: 020 7412 7450Email: [email protected]: @johnkayebl