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The East European Data Archive Network (EDAN)
The East European Data Archive Network (EDAN) was established during the
UNESCO Workshop on Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe 2002.
EDAN acts as an informal network designed to unite data
archives which are at an early stage of their existence and share common
problems as well as to make sure that the Eastern European data archives
will catch up with the advanced western data archives.
EDAN is not
intended to replace or substitute the already existing networks IFDO and
CESSDA. For those archives, which were not formal members of CESSDA the EDAN
serve as a good organizational framework to coordinate efforts for setting
up the archive.
The GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe/Central Archive as the German member of EDAN will serve as the
coordinator of all activities concerning the network. At the workshop in Berlin there was also a
common understanding of the fact that the Eastern European archives need
special training in meta data production in the very next future. It is
envisaged to organize special training seminars within the
framework of EDAN.
EDAN Membership
- Initiative for Social Science Data Archive, Rudjer Boskovic
Institute of the University of Zagreb, Croatia
- CPIJM,
Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, University
of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- University
of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
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- TARKI
Budapest, Hungary
- ESSDA
(Estonian Social Sciences Data Bank) University of Tartu, Estonia
- LSZDA
(Latvian Databank of Social Sciences) Academy of Sciences, Riga,
Latvia
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BSD (Bank of Social Data) Institute of Sociology, Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia (Russian version only)
- RSDA
Russian
Sociological Data
Archive, Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP), Moscow,
Russia
- SDA
Sociological Data Archive Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic
- ADP
(Slovenian Social Science Data Archive), University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia
- RODA, Romanian
Social Science Data Archive, Bucharest
- Social Science Data Archive
at REGLO, Sofia, Bulgaria
- SASD, Slovak
Archive of Social Data, Bratislava
- ADS (Archive of
Sociological Data), Warsaw University, Poland
- LiDA,
Lithuania; Data
Catalogue
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GESIS-ZA (Berlin), Germany
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KIIS, Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine
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Ukrainian Sociological
Archive of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine and Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University,
Ukraine
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To join EDAN please, contact Brigitte Hausstein
This mailing list is offered
to foster the
dissemination of news concerning data archives and archive initiatives in
Eastern Europe and to discuss problems of data archives in general. It
is a moderated mailing list intended for a highly interested audience.
The
contributors to the news list reciprocally inform on their activities, new
projects and initiatives in the field of data archiving. We also appreciate
information on promotional opportunities, grants, guest scientists, foreign
exchanges, networks, project planning, employment opportunities, event info,
etc. The language is
English.
To
subscribe to the list, send an email to: listserv@listserv.bonn.iz-soz.de
with "subscribe EDAN" (no quotes) in the body.
Please direct inquiries and suggestions to:
Brigitte Hausstein
The second EDAN training seminar took place at the Slovenian Data Archive
(ADP) at the University of Ljubliana (Slovenia) in June 2004. It
covered (like the first seminar) the basics of producing DDI compliant
codebooks and was intended for DDI beginners. This seminar introduced the
structure of the DDI metadata format and demonstrate how to produce DDI
compliant codebooks. Based on the ADP’s experience with creating DDI-XML
codebooks the participants from Bulgaria, Spain and Germany learnt in
a hands-on exercise how to get the most out of the Tag Library as well as
making full use of elements and attributes.
In September 2002 the first EDAN training seminar was
organized in Bucharest. It was supported by the Romania Data Archive (RODA)
and GESIS (German Social Science Infrastructure Services). The Council of
European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) has also lent its support by
sending West European experts and arranging presentations of ongoing
projects. The CESSDA members decided to hold their annual expert seminar in
Bucharest to make sure that the experts are available for both events.
Publication
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Social Science Data
Archives in Eastern Europe. Results, Potentials and Prospects of the
Archival Development. Brigitte Hausstein and Paul de Guchteneire (Eds.)
Ferger Verlag. Berlin, Cologne, Paris 2002.
236
pages, ISBN 3-931219-17-8, EUR 25,00
(It can be viewed as
pdf-file
via the Adobe Acrobat Reader or in the
Knowledge Base Eastern Europe.)
Order the book here. |
This
book is the outcome of the workshop on social science data archives in
Eastern Europe that took place in Berlin from 22-24th February 2002. The
workshop was funded by the UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations
Programme (MOST) and the German Social Science Infrastructure Services
(GESIS) / Central Archive Cologne.
Despite
the large-scale development of electronic communications in all scientific
fields, experience shows that face-to-face communication remains essential,
particularly in developing co-operation and networks. Therefore the GESIS
Branch Office Berlin organized a workshop as a forum both to exchange
experiences of how to establish a data archive and to evaluate the potential
for the establishment of data archives in Eastern European countries without
a developed data infrastructure.
This
book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of data archiving in
Eastern Europe since 1990. The first part of the volume includes the country
reports from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia describing
the development of empirical social science research after 1990 and
assessing the potential for establishing a national social science data
archive in the respective country. The data archive progress reports from
the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and
Hungary are presented in the second part of the book.
For
the first time information on the state of data archiving in most of the
Eastern European countries were made available to the public. The East
European Data Archive Network (EDAN) founded at the UNESCO workshop in
Berlin and the cooperation with the already existing archive networks CESSDA
(Council of European Social Science Data Archives) and IFDO (International
Federation of Data Organisations) are described in this volume as
well.
Contributors:
Ekkehard
Mochmann (Germany), Walter Hirche (Germany), Yantsislav Yanakiev (Bulgaria),
Algis Krupavicius and Vlada Gaidys (Lithuania), Krzystof Zagorski, Michal
Wenzel and Bogdan Cichomski (Poland), Andriy Gorbachyk and Olha Honcharenko
(Ukraine), Ljiljana Bacevic (Yugoslavia), Jindrich Krejci (Czech Republic),
Rein Murakas and Andu Rämmer (Estonia), Ausma Tabuna (Latvia), Nina
Rostegaeva (Russia), Ludmilla Khakhulina and Larisa Kosova (Russia),
Katarina Strapcova (Slovakia), Adrian Dusa (Romania), Janez Stebe
(Slovenia), Ildiko Nagy (Hungary), Brigitte Hausstein (Germany), Paul de
Guchteneire (UNESCO, France).
Mail
orders to the publisher:
Edwin Ferger Verlag, Eichenhainallee 18, 51427 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Fax: +49-2204-22203, Email: efv@e-ferger-verlag.de, http://www.e-ferger-verlag.de
UNESCO Workshop on Social Science Data Archives in
Eastern Europe 2002
The workshop "Social Science Data Archives in Eastern
Europe – Results, Potentials and Prospects of the Archival Development"
supported by UNESCO/MOST Programme and the German Social Science
Infrastructure Services (GESIS) was held in Berlin on 22-24 February, 2002.
The workshop brought together representatives of the existing or emerging
data archives in Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania
and Slovakia as well as researchers who are involved in data archiving
initiatives in Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
Additionally, representatives from the Swedish, Finish, Australian and
German Data Archive shared their experience.
© GESIS Brigitte Hausstein
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