Open Data

23 October 2013

Support

•Badia Office: Library room 085 (entry level floor)

•Villa San Paolo: Mon., Wed., & Fri. afternoons•Weekly Bulletin (Fridays)

•econlibrary@eui.eu

Open Data

• A growing trend among scholars, government agencies and international organisations to share data outputs, codebooks and software.

Issues • How can we define research data and what types of

research data should be open?• When and how does openness need to be limited?• How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?• Where should research data be stored and made

accessible?• How can we enhance data awareness and a culture of

sharing?

Research Data: Social Sciences & Humanities

• Public data / research data • Research data outputs

– Quantitative data: numerical statistical data in Economics, Sociology, Political Science and History/Humanities– Qualitative data: case studies, text analysis, interviews, images, maps and audio-visual materials.–Indexing of Big Data–‘Free Our Data’–Personal data

Research Data

• Data from research projects– Institutionally-generated, large/medium scale

projects (frequently with an original survey/simulation component) EUDO, DReMM

• Data from individual scholars– Related to publications: theses, articles, WPs,

monographs– Elaboration of macro and micro sources; smaller

surveys & fieldwork

D Research Data Cycle

• Propensity towards Open Data– Data from research projects – Data from individual scholars– Macro data (ECB, W.B., states)– Micro-socioeconomic data– Financial data– HFDF

Derived / elaborated data

• No consensus on how, and how much, research data derived or elaborated from pre-existing, commercially-licensed databases, can be re-platformed in open access mode.

Library Support • Discovery Data Portal: Both restricted & open data• Metadata and ontologies• Datasets generated by project work:

– information on possible limitations and data protection

• Datasets derived from a pre-existing database: – publisher, institution and/or author should be cited. If

there are multiple streams of input, all should be cited

• Assistance with Data Management Plans (DMPs).

Research Data Guide

Licensing / IP / Copyright

• Assistance and 'brokering'• Research team ↔ Library ↔ Data © owner

– eg. RSCAS Climate Policy Research Unit• Emissions Trading System Project

Library web

Where should research data be stored and made accessible?

– Subject repositories: Gesis (social sciences)– International: Dataverse, Zenodo– Institutional data repositories– Journal archives: Political Analysis, PloS– Funding agencies: Welcome Trust– Registry of research data repositories: re3data.org

EC Report: October 2013• Assist

EC Commission Strategy

• The Commission proposed in its Communication Towards Better Access to Scientific Information to develop a pilot on open access to data, primarily those data underlying (open access) scientific publications.

A Data Survey

November 2013

•The EUI Library invites you to participate in a survey, telling us about your experience with research data and issues related to its use.•We are interested in what kinds of data are being used at the EUI, and what kinds of data are being generated – both by individual researchers and teams.

Support

•Badia Office: Library room 085 (entry level floor)

•Villa San Paolo: Mon., Wed., & Fri. afternoons•Weekly Bulletin (Fridays)

•econlibrary@eui.eu

Open Data

23 October 2013