Ir ishSocial ScienceData Archive

ISSDA

Jenny O'Neil l , Data Manager,UCD Library

O V E R V I E WBackground

Services for depositors

Future services

Depositor responsibilities

Services to researchers

IRISHSOCIALSCIENCEDATAARCHIVE

ISSDA is

Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data

acquisition, preservation, and dissemination.

Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide

access to quantitative datasets in the social

sciences, and to advance the promotion of

international comparative studies of the Irish

economy and Irish society.

2000ISSDA was set up in 2000

in the Geary Institute in

UCD with support from

the CSO & ESRI.

ISSDA transferred from

the Geary Institute to UCD

Library during the

summer of 2012.

20162012

B A C K G R O U N D

A Data Manager for ISSDA

was hired, highlighting

UCD Library's

continuing commitment

to ISSDA.

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S E R V I C E S F O R

DATAPROVIDERS

Professionallycurated

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Sharing your data via ISSDA ensuresthat your data wil l be professionallycurated and managed.

All data disseminated by ISSDA haveundergone rigorous checks to ensurethat they have been fullyanonymised, thus protecting theindividual data confidential ity.

Your data are

Enhanced withmetadata

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ISSDA enhances data through thecreation of metadata based the DataDocumentation Init iative (DDI)international standard for describingstatistical and social science data.

A metadata record is created basedon the information provided by thedepositing organisation in thedeposit form.

ISSDA uses Hassett , the leadingthesaurus for the social sciences, forsubject headings.

Your data are

Preserved

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ISSDA is committed to maintainingthese data resources for the longterm, ensuring that, as data formatsevolve and advance, the archive’sholdings are always available ineasily accessible forms.

ISSDA is working towards to the DataSeal of Approval (DSA), a certificationfor sustainable and trusted datarepositories.

Your data are

Disseminatedvia a nationalplatform

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ISSDA is a national platform & holdsa range of key Irish and internationalcomparative datasets.

Key studies include data from theCSO, Growing Up in Ireland, HealthyIreland & TILDA.

Research data have signif icant valuebeyond the usage for the originalresearch. ISSDA ensures that value isrealised.

Your data are

Disseminatedunder l icence

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ISSDA holds a range of key Irish andinternational comparative datasets,and makes them available forsecondary analysis by students,academics, and researchers in thepublic and commercial sectors.

Data providers can choose underwhich l icenses their data aredistributed; research & teaching.

Your data are

Encrypted

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ISSDA uses tools includingKleopatra, PKWARE SecureZip & Keka(for Mac users) to ensure that dataare encrypted at ingest and delivery.

We use HEAnet Fi leSender to deliverdata to researchers. Fi leSender isdeveloped to the requirements of thehigher education and researchcommunity and supportedby HEAnet, Ireland’s NationalEducation and Research Network.

Your data are

Usage reports

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ISSDA can generate usage reports,which typical ly include the numberof requests, number of users, type ofusers, subject area and description ofprojects.

We are currently developing a newdatabase which wil l al low easierreporting to depositors.

ISSDA provides

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FUTURES E R V I C E S

DOIs

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UCD Library mints Digital ObjectIdentif iers (DOIs) for objects in theUCD Digital Library using a servicecalled EZID, provided by theUniversity of California.

ISSDA wil l rol l out this service forboth data and documentation in thefuture.

Minting of

NESSTAR

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Nesstar is owned by Norwegian SocialScience Data Services (NSD). It is asoftware system for data publishingand online analysis . The softwareconsists of tools which enables dataproviders to disseminate their dataon the Web.

Nesstar handles survey data andmultidimensional tables as well astext resources. Users can search,browse and analyse the data online.

Implementing

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R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S O F

DEPOSITORS

DATA

Anonymised

Clean

Recommended formats:

SPSS, SAS, STATA

Depositor form

Data dictionary

Questionnaire

Reports

etc.

SUPPORTDOCUMENTATION

WHA T D O WE N E E D F R OMD E P O S I T O R S ?

Answer questions about

the data when they arrise

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S E R V I C E S F O R

RESEARCHERS

Request data

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Researchers submit an applicationform to ISSDA. This describes whichdata are required, who wil l be usingthe data and what the intended use ofthe data is .

The End User License is signed by theprimary user, who is bound by theterms of the l icence.

Researchers can

Submit queries

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ISSDA supports the re-use of data byhandling researcher queries viaemail . General queries are handledby our Library Assistant.

Data specif ic queries, including thoserelating to variables or methodology,are forwarded to the Data Provider,i f necessary, by the Data Manager.

Researchers can

Register of Use

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ISSDA manages a register of use fortwo studies – Growing up in Ireland(GUI) and The Irish Longitudinalstudy on Ageing (TILDA). Eachregister is organised around researchthemes according to the researchprojects that have/are being carriedout.

Researchers can be included in the

Workshops

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To help researchers re-use datasuccessfully ISSDA is developing aseries of workshops.

So far we have organised a workshopon 'Anonymising Research Data 'with the Children's Research Networkfor Ireland and Northern Ireland(CRNINI) .

Researchers can attend

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