Providing%20Social%20Science%20Data%20Services

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Providing Social Science Data Services

• Jim Jacobs
• Chuck Humphrey

Strategies for Design and Operation
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The week in a nutshell

• The syllabus
• The daily schedule
• 900 to 500, with possible time off for good
  behaviour
• Exercises and computing labs
• Light homework assignments in the evenings that
  introduce topics for the next day

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The week in a nutshell

• http//delicious.com/tag/icpsr2010
• http//3stages.org/class/2010/

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http//3stages.org/class/2010/
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Introductions
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Who are you? Who are we?

• Name, institutional affiliation, job title.
• Are you responsible for data services (some or
  all) at your institution?
• If YES, what is the current situation for data
  services at your institution?
• If NO, what is your relationship to data
  services?
• Are you the ICPSR Official Representative or
  Designate OR?
• Is there anything that you really hope to learn
  this week?
• The pre-class readings Questions? Discussion?

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Our teaching style

• We try to accommodate a mix of learning styles
  something to hear, see, touch and do.
• We invite discussion dont hesitate to ask
  questions or share an experience.
• Were a tag-team and share instruction time.
• We have more material than well ever get
  through, but have packages of information for you
  to take for future reference.
• Our Powerpoint slides will be available online.

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Our professional orientation

• We teach from a service orientation, which
  underlies the why-we-do and what-we-do topics
  that we will be teaching
• We are advocates of the open data access
  movement, which makes us strong supporters of
  data sharing and data preservation
• We promote the development of a data culture to
  assist society in identifying and conducting
  informed public debates on major issues

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Our professional orientation

• Access to data is an extension of our other
  professional interests
• Libraries, but not just libraries
• open (accessible and accountable) government,
• privacy in the information age,
• technology and social responsibility,
• preserving our digital research heritage through
  data preservation,
• statistical and data literacy,
• knowledge transfer, and
• other stuff

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Why do we teach this course?

• We believe that we have an important message to
  share.
• We enjoy meeting and working with professionals
  who have data services as part of their job
  responsibilities or who are merely interested in
  data.
• We are excited by learning and teaching this
  course has required us to be continuous learners.
• We learn from the participants in this course.

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Let's start learning!