Open Data

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• Data: Social Sciences & Humanities– Numerical data for scholarly research:

Economics, Sociology, Political Economy, Economic History &c.

– Qualitative: coded data, cases, images.

• The Data Deluge– ‘Free Our Data’– Indexing of ‘Big Data’– Personal data

• Propensity towards Open Data– Data from research projects – Data from individual scholars–Macro data (ECB, W.B., states)–Micro-socioeconomic data– Financial data– HFDF

• Data from research projects– Institutionally-generated, large/medium scale

projects (usually with an original survey component); also retro-scanned data

– EUDO, DReMM

• Data from individual scholars– Related to publications: Elaboration of macro

and micro sources; smaller surveys & fieldwork– Theses, articles, WPs, monographs

• Access, Networks and Archives

– National archives: SURF, UKDS

– Discipline/cluster archives: NBER

–Multi-disciplinary: Dataverse, Nesstar

– Journal archives: Econometrica, PloS

– Local institutional data repositories– EUI Data Portal

• OD dissemination for publication-related datasets: Benefits

• Access• Data methodology & instruction• Cross-referencing with publications

• OD dissemination for publication-related datasets: Some caveats.

• Dated data / newer data resides at source• Data not sufficiently elaborated• Discourse ‘echo’

• An Institutional Data Repository– University of Edinburgh

• EUI Data beta consultation

– Join the data list– Feedback via the Data Portal

• PPT available at:

• http://www.eui.eu/Projects/EUIdatarepository/Home.aspx

• http://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/ResearchGuides/Economics/Welcome.aspx

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