Social Science Data and Digital Resources

February 2012

John Kaye – Lead Curator Digital Social Science

http://www.slideshare.net/johnkayebl

Overview

• British Library Datasets Strategy

• ESDS

• Census Resources

• Spatial Data

• Open Data

• UK Web Archive

• Other Data and Resources

• Tools, Software and Visualisation

• Identifying, Citing and Sharing Data

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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 British Library Datasets Strategy

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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Datasets in Explore The British Library

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Explore The British Library (Portals)

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Explore The British Library (Portals)

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Economic and Social Data Service - (ESDS) www.esds.ac.uk

Data search and download

Research method guides

Thematic guides

Online analysis

Secure Data Service http://securedata.data-archive.ac.uk/

UK Data Service

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Economic and Social Data Service - (ESDS) 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

2011 Census

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Data available on www.ons.gov.uk - latest release is output area key statistics

Academic releases will be made available via Census Dissemination Unit via their InFuse tool http://cdu.mimas.ac.uk/

Lots of information and support at http://census.ac.uk/

Experian Geodemographic Data http://cdu.mimas.ac.uk/experian/index.htm

Previous Censuses

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Data available for 1981-2011 on http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/

Academic data release from 1971 to 2001 on casweb (also contains geographic boundary data) http://casweb.mimas.ac.uk/

Histpop – The Online Historical Reports Collection (OHPR) provides online access to population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937 http://www.histpop.org/

Look at changes between census questions, structures and geographies

Previous Censuses

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Previous Censuses

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BL Official Publications Collection – Census Reports

UK Census Reports BL holds statistical reports

relating to each census. Reports for 1921-1991 in the

reading room on open shelves National and county aggregate

reports for England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Aggregate statistical information at each level for all census questions

Compliments Histpop which has digitised reports between 1801 – 1937 and Casweb: 1971 – 2001

Some older reports can be found in parliamentary papers

Number of Households Lacking or sharing Amenities (England and Wales)

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500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

1951 (Lack orShare Flushing

Toilet)

1961 (Lack orShare Flushing

Toilet)

1971 (Lack orShare Inside

Toilet)

1981 (Lack orShare Inside

Toilet)

1991 (Lack orShare InsideToilet and/or

Bath or Shower)

2001 (WithoutSole use of

Toilet and/orBath or Shower)

1851 Population Pyramid

1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000

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10-1415-1920-2425-2930-3435-3940-4445-4950-5455-5960-6465-6970-7475-7980-84

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Number of People

Male

Female

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Maps

The library holds a number of maps generated with census and population data from UK and all over the world

Augustus Petermann, Map of the British Isles, elucidating the distribution of the population based on the 1841 census. London,1861.

Ireland map for railways

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Spatial Data

Edina Digimap and UK Bordershttp://edina.ac.uk/digimap/

http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders/

Go Geo! Searchhttp://www.gogeo.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi

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Spatial Data

Ordanance Survey Open Datahttp://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/os-opendata.html

Landmaphttp://landmap.mimas.ac.uk/

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UK Government Open Data

http://data.gov.uk/

Admin and Statistical data portal

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/

Regional

http://data.london.gov.uk/

http://datagm.org.uk/

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International open data

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

Public Data EU

http://publicdata.eu/

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UK Web Archive http://www.webarchive.org.uk

Selective Web Archive over 11,000 websites collected since

2004

over 50,000 instances

Over 16TB of compressed data

British Library, National Library of Wales, JISC

Also National Library of Scotland, the National Archives, Wellcome Library

Many collaborators

eg Women’s Library, Live Arts Development Agency, Quakers in Britain

A typical event-based special collection

Collect, preserve, and make accessible

eb sites of cultural and scholarly

importance from the UK domain

A comprehensive special collection

Collect, preserve, and make accessible

eb sites of cultural and scholarly

importance from the UK domain

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JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2010)

Funded by JISC to create a research collection of UK websites

Collaboration between the Internet Archive, JISC and the British Library

Copy of subset of the Internet Archive’s web collection that relates to the UK

470466 files, mostly arc.gz, with 4494 warc.gz. Total size: 32TB

No local access – possible through the Internet Archive

Can be used to generate secondary datasets and make these available

Analytical access the main route

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Other Data and Resources

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

UK Government Web Archive

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

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Other Data and Resources

The Mass Observation Archive Specialises in material about everyday life

in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously since 1981

http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm

A Vision of Britain through Time Contains historical Maps, Census Reports,

Election reports and other historical material, searchable by local area.

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

Charles Booth Online Archive Gives access to archive material from the

Booth collections ofthe London School of Economics and Political Science and the Senate House Library

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

Images from The Mass Observation Archive

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Analysis Tools and Software

Statistical - SPSS, SATA, R (open source)GIS - ArcGIS, MapInfo, Quantum GIS (open source)ExcelOnline 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 Profiler

http://www.londonprofiler.org/

London Heat Map

http://www.londonheatmap.org.uk/Mapping/

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Online Mapping Tools using Google Maps

MapTube

http://www.maptube.org/

Google Drive

https://drive.google.com

Gmap Creator

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/gmapcreator.asp

Other, more advanced online mapping (requires coding):

Open Layers http://openlayers.org/

OS Openspace http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/web-services/os-openspace/index.html

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Data Visualization

Presenting data in a useful and interesting manner

Allowing concepts to be easily 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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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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Metadata Search http://search.datacite.org/ui

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) http://about.orcid.org/

•Infrastructure is being created for researchers to build up an open portfolio of research objects

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

•Register an ORCID ID www.orcid.org and link published papers using ORCID’s tools

Sharing Data - Figshare

•Non published outputs (working papers, datasets) can be deposited in figshare http://figshare.com/ given a DataCite DOI and linked back and added to ORCID profile

•ODIN wants to expand on this principle and engage with data centres and institutional repositories to allow easier more open discovery of non-traditional research outputs.

Impact of Data

•View the impact of your work using traditional citation metrics and social citations http://www.impactstory.org/

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Depositing and Archiving Data

Why Archive?Institutional RepositoriesUK Data Archive/ESDSMetadata and Code!

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BL Social Science Research Bloghttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/

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John KayeLead Curator – Digital Social ScienceSocials Sciences The British Library96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB  Telephone: 020 7412 7450Email: john.kaye@bl.ukTwitter: @johnkayebl

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/

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