Ir ishSocial ScienceData Archive

ISSDA

Jenny O'Neil l , Data Manager,UCD Librarywww.ucd.ie/issda/ti lda/

O V E R V I E WBackground

Data Services

Services for Researchers

Accessing TILDA Data

www.ucd.ie/issda/tilda/

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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DATASERVICES

PROFESSIONALLYCURATED

All data disseminated by

ISSDA have undergone

rigorous checks to ensure

that they are of a high

quality.

ISSDA enhances data

through the creation of

metadata based the Data

Documentation Initiative

(DDI) .

PRESERVEDENHANCED WITHMETADATA

D A T A A R E

ISSDA is committed to

maintaining data resources

for the long term, ensuring

that the archive’s holdings

are always available in

easily accessible forms.

DISSEMINATED VIA ANATIONAL PLATFORM

All data disseminated by

ISSDA have undergone

rigorous checks to ensure

that they are of a high

quality.

ISSDA holds a range of key

Irish and international

comparative datasets, and

makes them available for

secondary analysis by

students, academics, and

researchers in the public

and commercial sectors.

ENCRYPTEDDISSEMINATEDUNDER LICENCE

D A T A A R E

ISSDA uses tools to ensure

that data are encrypted at

ingest and delivery.

We use HEAnet FileSender

to deliver data to

researchers.

DIGITAL OBJECTIDENTIFIERS

ISSDA will roll out Digital

Object Identifiers

(DOIs) for both data and

documentation in the

future.

Nesstar is a software

system for data publishing

and online analysis. Users

can search, browse and

analyse the data online.

NESSTAR

F U T U R E S E R V I C E S

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SERVICESFOR

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.

www.ucd.ie/issda/ti lda/

Researchers can

Submit queries

02

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

03

ISSDA manages a register of use for twostudies – Growing up in Ireland (GUI) andThe Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing(TILDA). Each register is organised aroundresearch themes according to the researchprojects that have/are being carried out.

http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/ti lda/ti ldareg/

Researchers can be included in the

Workshops

04

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

So far we have organised a workshopon 'Anonymising Research Data ' withCRNINI.

Researchers can attend

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ACCESSINGTILDADATA

Identify the dataset(s)you require

Complete the relevantrequest form

Send the signed consentform to issda@ucd.ie

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Documentation

Release Guide Project reportsQuestionnairesCodedebookAnonymisation Actions

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Waves 1&2

Citation &Acknowledgement

It is a requirement of both TILDA(see Release Guide v2.2, p34) andISSDA (see ISSDA_Application_Research_V2.3, section 8) that dataare cited in any work based on thedata.

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