Title: Improving the evidence base for international comparative research
1Improving the evidence base for international
comparative research
- Ekkehard Mochmann
- ISSC Senior Advisor on Social Science Data
- mochmann_at_gesis.org
- Foundation Conference for the
- International Data Forum
- CASS, Beijing
- June 5, 2007
2Topics
- 1. We are not starting from scratch
- 2. European and International Data Services
- 3. Continuous Comparative Data Programmes
- 4. International Training Seminars
- 5. ACCESS to Infrastructures
- 6. RTD Projects
- 7. Development Trends and Needs,
- Points for Action
3Infrastructure building a historical note on
ISSC SCs
- The agenda of the 1960ies and 70ies (Rokkan,
Miller Scheuch, Szalai) - promoting and popularizing the idea of
comparative and cross- - cultural research
- creating a data base and infrastructure for
comparative research - developing and popularizing methods and
techniques for - comparative research
- launching data confrontation seminars
- stimulating the use of data from different
sources such as survey - research, statistical microdata and
process-produced data.
4International Federation of Data Organisations
for the Social Sciences (IFDO) www.ifdo.org
5 Council of European Social Science Data
Archives (CESSDA) www.cesda.org
6 International Data Service (IFDO)
7EDAN East European Data Archive Network
- UNESCO Workshop
- Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe
2002
Creation of EDAN
Networking of East European Data Archive
Initiatives
Improving East West Data Transfer and Data Access
for Social Research in Germany
8EDAN East European Data Archive Network
Participating Archives
- Ungarn TARKI (1985)
- Russland (UdSSR) DB (1985)
- Estland ESSDA (1994)
- Litauen LSZDA (1996)
- Slowenien ADP (1997)
- Tschechien SDA (1998)
- Russland RSDA (2002)
- Rumänien RODA 2001
- Bulgarien SSDA (2003)
Other Participants Initiatives in Slovakia,
Poland, Belaruss, Ukrain, Latvia, Serbia
Ireland, Portugal
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10Continuous Comparative Survey Programmes
- Eurobarometer (EB)
- ? AFRO- ASIA- LATINO- Global Barometers
- European Values Study (EVS) - WORLD VALUES
Study (WVS) - International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
- United States Investigation Agency (USIA- xx)
BIG (ESF) - Luxemburg Income Study (LIS- LES)
- Socio-Economic Panel Studies
- x Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
- X Founding Elections in Eastern Europe
- X ltComparative Manifestoes Projectgt
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- International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS)
- European Social Survey (ESS)
11International Seminars and Summer Schools
- Essex Summer School
- ICPSR Summer School
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- OSLO Summer School in Comparative Research
- ZA Spring Seminar and
- ZA/ZHSF Autumn Seminar for Historical Research
- Data confrontation seminars
- CESSDA Expert Seminars / IASSIST Workshops
12ACCESS to Research Infrastructures
- Objectives
- Support all Researchers of EU Member States to
Access Infrastructure Services, - which offer world class service, essential
for high level research - which are unique or rare in Europe and are
not easy to replicate - which can support external users
scientifically, technically and - logistically
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- GESIS-ZA has created ZA-EUROLAB
- Essex University created ECASS
- CEPS/Instead created IRISS
13RTD- Projects
- NESSTAR Networked Services -gt DDI
- MetaDater Meta Data Management and Production
System for Social Science Surveys (EU-FP5) -gt DDI - MADIERA Multilingual Access to Data
Infrastructures - of the European Research Area (EU-FP5) -gtDDI
- CESSDA Portal
- Perspectives ESFRI Roadmap
14Trends
- Improving and integrating the evidence base
- Facilitating access
- Standards for data definition (DDI / MetaDater)
- Opening multilingual access (Madiera)
- Virtual libraries
- Data literature event knowledge
integration - Meaningful contexts and interpretation
knowledge - Global data infrastructure Interoperability-
GRID
15Joint Statement of the Academia Europea and ESF
- The role of computer-based networking has
- grown enormously in the past decade, and has
- transformed the potential for research and
education. - This trend is expected to continue in dramatic
fashion - Fully collaborative research communities widely
dispersed - Wider and more transparent access to data
- New technologies and applications
16Act on
- Internationalisation and regional coverage
- Integrate transdisciplinary- evidence base and
improve comparability - Long term preservation- metadata- access
- Transnational funding structures and data policies
17Encouraging perspectives
- ESFRI
- CESSDA EROHS DARIAH ESS - SHARE
- NORFACE
- Transnational Funding
- ISSC Strategic Plan
- IDF
- Global Data Forum 2007
18The impact and the impact factor of the
classic social scientists
- It is also the fact that their intellectual
problems are - relevant to the public issues of their times, and
to the - private troubles of individual man and women
- People have read ltthe classic social scientistsgt
- not only to become informed. They have read in a
- search for orientation and out of their reading
they have - gotten orientation C. W. Mills, 1960 p.4