t.alatera's blog https://iassistdata.org/blog/talatera en The International Workshop on Social Science Data Archives, held in Taiwan, sponsored by IASSIST https://iassistdata.org/blog/international-social-science-data-archives-workshop-taiwan <p><span>The International Workshop on Social Science Data Archives, sponsored by IASSIST, was held on September 15 in Conference Room II, Research Center for Humanities and Social Science (RCHSS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. The invited speakers included <strong>Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf </strong>from GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, <strong>Dr.&nbsp;Yukio Maeda</strong> and <strong>Dr. Kaoru Sato</strong> from Social Science Japan Data Archive (SSJDA), University of Tokyo, and <strong>Dr.&nbsp;Won-ho Park</strong>, <strong>Dr.&nbsp;Seokho Kim</strong> from Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA), Seoul National University.</span></p> <p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/talatera/misc/master/banner_reception.jpg" /></p><p>The finalized workshop agenda is listed in the following. We also had <strong>Dr. Ruoh-rong Yu</strong> introduce the Survey Research Data Archive of Taiwan. The topics of the presentations covered data curation, preservation, and dissemination services provided by each data archive.&nbsp;</p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="558"><tr><td width="105"><p>09:00~09:30</p></td> <td colspan="2" width="452"><p>Registration</p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>09:30~09:40</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Opening Remarks</p></td> <td width="264"><p>Dr. Ching-Ching Chang<br /><span>Chair Professor<br /></span><span>Department of Advertising<br /></span><span>National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" width="558"><p>Morning Session</p> <p>Session Chair: Dr. Ching-ching Chang</p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>09:40~10:20</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Curating, Preserving, and Disseminating Social Science Micro Data at Social Science Japan Data Archive</p></td> <td width="264"><p>Dr. Yukio Maeda<br /><span>Professor<br /></span><span>Institute of Social Science<br /></span><span>University of Tokyo, JAPAN</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>10:20~11:00</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Introduction to Korea Social Science Data Archive</p></td> <td width="264"><p>Dr. Won-ho Park<br /><span>Associate Professor<br /></span><span>Department of Political Science and International Relations<br /></span><span>Seoul National University, KOREA</span></p> <p>Dr. Seokho Kim<br /><span>Associate Professor<br /></span><span>Department of Sociology<br /></span><span>Seoul National University, KOREA</span></p> <p>Dr. In Chol Shin<br /><a href="http://web.skku.edu/~socioadmin/?page_id=457&amp;lang=en"></a><span>Senior Researcher<br /></span><span>Korea Social Science Data Archive<br /></span><span>Seoul National University Asia Center, KOREA</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>11:00~11:20</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Tea Break</p></td> <td width="264"><p>&nbsp;</p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>11:20~12:00</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Introduction to Survey Research Data Archive of Taiwan</p></td> <td width="264"><p>Dr. Ruoh-Rong Yu<br /><span>Research Fellow and Executive Director<br /></span><span>Center for Survey Research<br /></span><span>Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>12:00~14:00</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Lunch</p></td> <td width="264"><p>&nbsp;</p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" width="558"><p>Afternoon Session</p> <p>Session Chair: Dr. Chyi-In Wu.&nbsp;<span>(Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>14:00~15:00</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Services for Survey Data: The GESIS Perspective</p></td> <td width="264"><p>Dr. Christof Wolf<br /><span>President<br /></span><span>GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GERMANY</span></p></td></tr> <tr><td width="105"><p>15:00~15:20</p></td> <td width="188"><p>Closing Remarks</p></td> <td width="264"><p>&nbsp;</p></td></tr></table><p><span>The registration of the workshop started May 1, 2017. The registration fee was NT$200, which included conference printed materials, lunch and light refreshments. &nbsp;69 researchers attended the workshop. Most of the attendants were local scholars, while others were from Thailand, Turkey or other countries.</span></p> <p><span>In the opening remarks, Dr. Chang stressed the importance of data archives, and gave a brief introduction to the speakers of the morning sessions.</span></p> <p><span>The speaker of first session, Dr. Maeda, introduced the development and current practice of SSJDA. In addition, he also introduced some other data centers in Japan, including Leviathan Data Bank, Rikkyo University Data Archive, and Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science at Hitotsubashi University.</span></p> <p><span>SSJDA was started in 1998, with deposits amounting to 2,018 datasets. Its main collections include the Japanese General Social Surveys, Japanese Life Course Panel Surveys, Japanese Election Studies, National Family Research of Japan, Working Persons Survey, and Elementary School Students Survey. Researchers affiliated with academic institutions and graduate students can get access to SSJDA datasets for academic purposes. Applicants should sign an agreement (pledge) and get permission from PI in advance. Under the supervision of professors, undergraduate students are allowed to access certain data for paper writing. Such usage is classified as educational use, instead of research use. Some datasets are for research use only, and are not available for educational use.</span></p> <p><span>SSJDA also offers several seminars on data usage and a one-week seminar on quantitative analysis every year. SSJDA built a desktop application for managing metadata based on the DDI lifecycle named Easy DDI Organizer (EDO). EDO can be used to edit metadata, import metadata and variable information from statistical software, and export documents. It is a useful tool for researchers, data users, and data archives. However, this system only has a Japanese version.</span></p> <p><span>The second speaker was Dr. Park from KOSSDA. KOSSDA is Korea’s leading data archive, with expertise in the collection, dissemination, and promotion of research materials through various academic events and methodology education programs. Started in 1983 as a non-profit social science library, KOSSDA began to collect survey data in 2003, and moved to Seoul National University Asia Center in 2015.</span></p> <p><span>KOSSDA collects survey data, statistical tables, qualitative interviews and narrative history data, documents, observation records, and other kinds of data produced by research institutes and individuals. KOSSDA also establishes digital databases, and provides access to the data. Its main collections include the Korean General Social Survey, ISSP Annual Topical Module Survey, Gallup Omnibus Survey, etc. KOSSDA has translated 250 survey datasets to English, including their questionnaires and codebooks.</span></p> <p><span>KOSSDA is now rebuilding its website to enhance its data searching function and&nbsp;to improve web design. KOSSDA offers methodology training programs, data fairs, and a research paper competition every year.</span></p> <p><span>After a 20-minute tea break, the presentation on SRDA kicked off. The speaker, Dr. Yu, is the Executive Director of the Center for Survey Research at Academia Sinica. SRDA was established in 1994. There are now eleven full-time workers in SRDA, including two IT staff members. The data archived by SRDA include survey data, census data, and in-house value-added data.</span></p> <p><span>SRDA curates academic survey data such as the Taiwan Social Change Survey, Panel Study of Family Dynamic, Taiwan Social Image Survey, Taiwan Youth Project, Taiwan Education Panel Survey, and Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study. In addition, SRDA also curates government survey data including the Manpower Survey, Manpower Utilization Survey, Woman’s Marriage, Fertility and Employment Survey, Survey of Family Income and Expenditure, Digital Opportunity Survey for Individuals and Households, Survey on Workers’ Living and Employment Conditions, etc. The number of datasets dissimilated by SRDA exceeds 2,800, in which 315 datasets have English versions.</span></p> <p><span>A membership scheme is adopted by SRDA. Academia Sinica members are researchers at Academia Sinica. Regular members are faculty, researchers, students, or research assistants at colleges or research institutes. There are now about 2,302 members. A member can get access to most of the archived data by direct downloading from the SRDA website.</span></p> <p><span>SRDA members can also apply for data with restricted access. The restricted datasets can be used via on-site access or remote access. All services provided by SRDA are now free of charge.</span></p> <p><span>SRDA offers workshops, webinars, and on-campus lectures to promote data usage. In addition, SRDA maintains some social media websites such as a <a title="SRDA Facebook fan page" href="https://www.facebook.com/srda.taiwan/" target="_blank">Facebook fan page</a>, <a title="SRDA YouTube" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/SRDATW" target="_blank">Youtube Channel</a>, and <a title="SRDA Blog" href="http://srdatw.blogspot.tw/" target="_blank">SRDA blog</a>.</span></p> <p><span>SRDA has been constructing a data-based bibliography for years. Since 2016, SRDA has begun to register DOI via da|ra. One task in progress is to construct a data integration platform for Taiwan Social Change Survey data of various years. Other main tasks include enlarging data storage, broadening membership, remodeling the website, developing data management plans, and constructing an evaluation scheme for data disclosure risk.</span></p> <p><span>In the afternoon session, Dr. Chi-in Wu was the chair. The presenter, Dr. Wolf, introduced the development and current progress of GESIS. Relative to data archives of Asia countries, the budget and personnel of GESIS are very large. GESIS was founded in 1960, and the data archive for social science is one of the five research departments of GESIS. There are about 70 staff members in the data archive for social science, belonging to seven teams.</span></p> <p><span>GESIS currently has about 6,000 datasets, which mainly focus on migration, election, values and attitudes, and social behavior. ISSP, CSES, EVS, and ALLBUS are some well-known social science survey programs. It is easy for PIs to upload datasets through the Datorium system, which is a self-deposit service for sharing data.</span></p> <p><span>Dr. Wolf stressed the importance of DOI (Digital Object Identifiers), and introduced the DOI registration service built by GESIS&nbsp;<span>–</span> da|ra. Da|ra has 576,297 registered DOI names and 88 data providers worldwide, including ICPSR, SRDA, etc. In addition to hosting da|ra, GESIS is devoted to developing international standards for data documentation and data archiving, and providing training and consulting services to researchers.</span></p> <p><span>In the presentation, Dr. Wolf also talked about the secure data center of GESIS. The secure data center enables researchers to access sensitive, and weakly anonymized data. It is a locked room without internet. Users have to sign contracts in advance. Any inputs and outputs are required to be checked for disclosure risk. In the future, the secure data center will establish a remote access system, which can provide secure access to the data curated in CESSDA.</span></p> <p><span>A business meeting was kicked off on the next day (September 16). Besides the guests from GESIS, KOSSDA and SSJDA, participants of the meeting included researchers at the Center for Survey Research, and all the staff of SRDA. The agenda was as below.</span></p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="548"><tr><td width="387"><p>Development of Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)</p></td> <td width="161"><p>Christof Wolf (GESIS)</p></td></tr> <tr><td width="387"><p>Connections among SSJDA, KOSSDA and SRDA in Recent Years</p></td> <td width="161"><p>Ruoh-rong Yu (SRDA)</p></td></tr> <tr><td width="387"><p>Possible Future Collaboration among Data Archives</p></td> <td width="161"><p>All Participants</p></td></tr></table> <p><span>There have been frequent connections among KOSSDA, SSJDA and SRDA in recent years. Conferences and/or workshops were hosted in rotation in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.</span></p> <p><span>In 2016, KOSSDA organized an international conference with invited guests from SSJDA at the University of Tokyo (Japan), CNSDA at Renmin University (China), and SRDA at Academia Sinica (Taiwan). In this conference, a consensus was reached to develop a regional association of data archives in Asian countries, namely the Networks of Asian Social Science Data Archive (NASSDA).</span></p> <p><span>The main purpose of the business meeting this year was to discuss possible future collaboration among data archives in Asia countries. The brief conclusions are listed in the following:</span></p> <ol><li>To build a joint data catalogue for the archives involved.</li><li>To construct web linkages and brief introduction among archives.</li><li>To have a contact person for each data archive for future cooperation.</li></ol> <p><span>NASSDA members will hold annual workshop or conferences on a rotating basis. Further collaboration will be discussed in the near future.&nbsp;</span></p><p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/talatera/misc/master/attendees2017.jpg" /></p> https://iassistdata.org/blog/international-social-science-data-archives-workshop-taiwan#comments Archiving, Preservation, Curation Asia/Pacific Professional Development Digital Repositories News and Announcements Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:42:54 +0000 t.alatera 7594 at https://iassistdata.org IASSIST's Statement in Response to President’s Executive Order on Visas and Immigration https://iassistdata.org/blog/iassists-statement-response-president%E2%80%99s-executive-order-visas-and-immigration <p><span><br />February 13, 2017</span></p><p>Statement of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST at <a title="International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)" href="http://iassistdata.org" target="_blank">http://iassistdata.org</a>) in response to President Trump's January 27 Executive Order on Visas and Immigration, titled "PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES".</p><p>The recent executive order on visas and immigration issued on January 27th by US President Trump is of grave concern to IASSIST as an organization. IASSIST, the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology, is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology, libraries, data services and research &amp; higher education to support open science, advocate for responsible data management and use, build a broader community surrounding research data, and encourage the development of data professionals. Our membership is international, and we greatly value the ability to travel and meet to share knowledge at locations around the world. Our international fellows program and other initiatives are specifically designed to encourage participation from underrepresented regions, including the Muslim-majority countries targeted by the executive order.</p><p>While recognizing the authority of the United States over its borders, there are several aspects of this order that are troubling, viz.:</p><ol><li>Its sudden and chaotic implementation has led to severe uncertainty over whether rules and practices for entering the United States will be subject to rapid and arbitrary change.</li><li>It has led to the detention of lawful permanent residents of the United States, the revocation of visas previously granted under proper vetting procedures, the perception of potential discrimination on the basis of religion, and the humanitarian crisis caused by ceasing to accept refugees.</li><li>Its introduction of several restrictive elements into the domain of visas and immigration, such as the statement that those entering the US, including temporary visitors, must "support the Constitution".</li></ol><p>For these reasons, the order generates a hostile climate for the open, collaborative scientific work of our organization, both for non-US persons seeking to work and collaborate with Americans, and for Americans traveling and working outside of the US to collaborate who may face retributive actions from other states. Our membership has legitimate concerns about whether travel to the US is possible under such conditions. The order also may have long-term repercussions that damage the reputation of the US as a location that is open to visitors and immigrants, supporting the open exchange of ideas, and protected under the rule of law from arbitrary changes impacting human freedom. In response, IASSIST will continue to speak out in favor of our organization's goals, and against such threats to international collaboration in research and data sharing.</p><p>Our May 2017 annual conference will be held in Lawrence, Kansas. Arrangements were begun long before the Executive Order on Visas and Immigration, and it is impossible to change the venue at this date. IASSIST stands in solidarity with its members and encourages them to attend the conference and participate in the international exchange of ideas that is the purpose of our association. We hope that no member will be denied entry into the US due to the administration's recent actions. IASSIST will assist its membership with visa issues and other concerns emanating from this order. We also reaffirm that we are committed to an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, at the annual conference and all IASSIST activities.</p><p>&nbsp;Tuomas J. Alaterä, President<br />&nbsp;Jen Green, Vice-President<br />&nbsp;Ryan Womack, Secretary<br />&nbsp;Thomas Lindsay, Treasurer</p><p>International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)</p> https://iassistdata.org/blog/iassists-statement-response-president%E2%80%99s-executive-order-visas-and-immigration#comments Community of Data Professionals IASSIST Conferences Data-related Advocacy Data Access & Open Data Professional Development News and Announcements IASSIST Regions Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:00:31 +0000 t.alatera 7358 at https://iassistdata.org Looking Back/Moving Forward - Reflections on the First Ten Years of Open Repositories https://iassistdata.org/blog/reflections-on-first-ten-years-of-open-repositories <p>Open Repositories conference celebrated its first decade by having four full days of exciting workshops, keynotes, sessions, 24/7 talks, and development track and repository interest group sessions in Indianapolis, USA. All the fun took place in the second week of June. The <a title="Open Repositories 2015" href="http://www.or2015.net/" target="_blank">OR2015 conference</a> was themed <em>"Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads"</em> and it brought over 400 repository developers and managers, librarians and library IT professionals, service providers and other experts to hot and humid Indy.<br /><br />Like with <a title="International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)" href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/international-digital-curation-conference-idcc" target="_blank">IDCC</a> earlier this year, IASSIST was officially a supporter of OR2015. In my opinion, it was a worthy investment given the topics covered, depth and quality of presentations, and attendee profile. Plus I got to do what I love - talk about IASSIST and invite people to attend or present in our own conference.<br /><br />While there may not be extremely striking overlap with IASSIST and OR conferences, I think there are sound reasons to keep building linkages between these two. Iassisters could certainly provide beneficial insight on various RDM questions and also for instance on researchers' needs, scholarly communication, reusing repository content, research data resources and access, or data archiving and preservation challenges. We could take advantage of the passion and dedication the repository community shows in making repositories and their building blocks perfect. It's quite clear that there is a lot more to be achieved when repository developers and users meet and address problems and opportunities with creativity and commitment.</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="/sites/default/files/iassistdata_please-drop-by-or-drop-us-a-line.jpg" title="IASSIST collectibles at Open Repositories 2015." height="302" width="640" /></p><p>While IASSIST2015 had a plenary speaker from Facebook, OR had keynote speakers from Mozilla Science Lab and Google Scholar. Mozilla's <strong>Kaitlin Thaney</strong> skyped a very interesting opening keynote (that is what you resort to when thunderstorms prevent your keynote speaker from arriving!) on how to leverage the power of the web for research. Distributed and collaborative approach to research, public sharing and transparency, new models of discovery and freedom to innovate and prototype, and peer-to-peer professional development were among the powers of web-enabled open science.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Anurag Acharya</strong> from Google gave a stimulating talk on pitfalls and best practices on indexing repositories. His points were primarily aimed at repository managers fine-tuning their repository platforms to be as easily harvestable as possible. However, many of his remarks are worth taking into account when building data portals or data rich web services. On the other, hand it can be asked if it is our job (as repository or data managers) to make things easy for Google Scholar, or do we have other obligations that put our needs and our users first. Often these two are not conflicting though. What is more notable from my point of view was Acharya's statement that Google Scholar does not index other research outputs (data, appendixes, abstracts, code…) than articles from the repositories. But should it not? His answer was that it would be lovely, but it cannot be done efficiently because these resources are not comprehensive enough, and it would not possible for example to properly and accurately link users to actual datasets from the index. I'd like to think this is something for IASSIST community to contemplate.<br /><br />Open Researcher and Contributor ID (<a title="ORCID" href="http://orcid.org/" target="_blank">ORCID</a>) had a very strong presence in OR2015. ORCID provides an open persistent identifier that distinguishes a researcher from every other researcher, and through their API interfaces that ID can be connected to organisational and inter-organisational research information systems, helping to associate researchers and their research activities. In addition to a workshop on ORCID APIs there were many presentations about ORCID integrations. It seems that ORCID is getting close to reaching a critical mass of users and members, allowing it to take big leaps in developing its services. However, it still remains to be seen how widely it will be adopted. For research data archiving purposes having a persistent identifier provides obvious advantages as researchers are known to move from one organisation to another, work cross-nationally, and collaborate across disciplines.<br /><br />Many presentations at least partly addressed familiar but ever challenging research data service questions on deposits, providing data services for the researcher community and overcoming ethical, legal or institutional barriers, or providing and managing a trustworthy digital service with somewhat limited resources. Check for example <strong>Andrew Gordon</strong>'s terrific <a title="Drew Gordon on Databrary / OR2015" href="https://www.conftool.com/or2015/index.php?page=browseSessions&amp;form_session=54&amp;mode=list" target="_blank">presentation on Databrary</a>, a research-centered repository for video data. Metadata harmonisation, ontologies, putting emphasis on high quality metadata and ensuring repurposing of metadata were among the common topics as well, alongside a focus on complying with standards - both metadata and technical.<br /><br />I see there would be a good opportunity and considerable common ground for shared learning here, for example DDI and other metadata experts to work with repository developers and IASSIST's data librarians and archivists to provide training and take part in projects which concentrate on repository development in libraries or archives.<br /><br />Keynotes and a number of other sessions were live streamed and recorded for later viewing. <a title="Recorded presentations from OR2015" href="https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/catalog?f%5Bcollection_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Open+Repositories+2015" target="_blank">Videos of keynotes and some other talks</a> and most <a title="Presentation slides from OR2015" href="https://www.conftool.com/or2015/index.php?page=browseSessions&amp;mode=list" target="_blank">presentation slides</a> are available already, rest of the videos will be available in the coming weeks.</p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-inline-images"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_inline_images" width="640" height="302" title="IASSIST collectibles at Open Repositories 2015." alt="" src="https://iassistdata.org/sites/default/files/iassistdata_please-drop-by-or-drop-us-a-line.jpg?1435912571" /> </div> </div> </div> https://iassistdata.org/blog/reflections-on-first-ten-years-of-open-repositories#comments External Events Data Access & Open Data Digital Repositories Research Data Management Tools, Apps, Technology News and Announcements Fri, 03 Jul 2015 08:15:01 +0000 t.alatera 6677 at https://iassistdata.org
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