Open Data
23 October 2013
Support
• Badia Office: Library room 085 (entry level floor)
• Villa San Paolo: Mon., Wed., & Fri. afternoons
• Weekly Bulletin (Fridays)
• econlibrary@eui.eu
Open Data
• A growing trend among scholars, government
agencies and international organisations to
share data outputs, codebooks and software.
Issues
• How can we define research data and what types of
research data should be open?
• When and how does openness need to be limited?
• How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?
• Where should research data be stored and made
accessible?
• How can we enhance data awareness and a culture of
sharing?
Research Data:
Social Sciences & Humanities
• Public data / research data
• Research data outputs
– Quantitative data: numerical statistical data in Economics,
Sociology, Political Science and History/Humanities
– Qualitative data: case studies, text analysis, interviews,
images, maps and audio-visual materials.
– Indexing of Big Data
– ‘Free Our Data’
– Personal data
Research Data
• Data from research projects
– Institutionally-generated, large/medium scale
projects (frequently with an original
survey/simulation component) EUDO, DReMM
• Data from individual scholars
– Related to publications: theses, articles, WPs,
monographs
– Elaboration of macro and micro sources; smaller
surveys & fieldwork
D Research Data Cycle
'Raw data'
Surveys
Licensed data
Text
publications
Open data
Data
elaboration
&
sub-setting
Research
data
outputs
• Propensity towards Open Data
– Data from research projects
– Data from individual scholars
– Macro data (ECB, W.B., states)
– Micro-socioeconomic data
– Financial data
– HFDF
Derived / elaborated data
• No consensus on how, and how much,
research data derived or elaborated from preexisting, commercially-licensed databases, can
be re-platformed in open access mode.
Library Support
• Discovery Data Portal: Both restricted & open data
• Metadata and ontologies
• Datasets generated by project work:
– information on possible limitations and data protection
• Datasets derived from a pre-existing database:
– publisher, institution and/or author should be cited. If
there are multiple streams of input, all should be cited
• Assistance with Data Management Plans (DMPs).
Research Data Guide
Licensing / IP / Copyright
• Assistance and 'brokering'
• Research team ↔ Library ↔ Data © owner
– eg. RSCAS Climate Policy Research Unit
• Emissions Trading System Project
Library web
Where should research data be
stored and made accessible?
– Subject repositories: Gesis (social sciences)
– International: Dataverse, Zenodo
– Institutional data repositories
– Journal archives: Political Analysis, PloS
– Funding agencies: Welcome Trust
– Registry of research data repositories: re3data.org
EC Report: October 2013
• Assist
EC Commission Strategy
• The Commission proposed in its
Communication Towards Better Access to
Scientific Information to develop a pilot on
open access to data, primarily those data
underlying (open access) scientific
publications.
A Data Survey
November 2013
• The EUI Library invites you to participate in a survey, telling us about
your experience with research data and issues related to its use.
• We are interested in what kinds of data are being used at the EUI, and
what kinds of data are being generated – both by individual researchers
and teams.
Support
• Badia Office: Library room 085 (entry level floor)
• Villa San Paolo: Mon., Wed., & Fri. afternoons
• Weekly Bulletin (Fridays)
• econlibrary@eui.eu
Open Data
23 October 2013