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National and international cooperation
Data Service & Archiving
International cooperation of the data archives
- IFDO -
International Federation of Data Organisation -
Obtaining data and information is facilitated by a worldwide network
of cooperating data archives. IFDO coordinates, at an international
level, among other things, new standards and developments in data
archiving and data exchange.
- CESSDA - Council of European Social
Science Data Archives
supports the exchange of experience via an informal combination of
European data archives. Data exchange is facilitated via integrated
Data Catalogue IDC
- In context of Eastern Europe
there are various contacts and specific cooperations to archives and
social scientific facilities.
- ICPSR
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Through a cooperative arrangement of the ZA with the ICPSR in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, access to a wide spectrum of American survey data and
to possibilities for further training in statistical data analysis
(Summer Program) are on offer.
International Projects
In the framework of data archive activities ZA takes part within
international projects and cooperative
activities.
Eurobarometer
- Monitoring the Public Opinion in the European
Union
Standard Eurobarometer public opinion surveys are conducted on behalf
of the European Commission at least two times a year in all member states
of the European Union. Since the early seventies they are providing
regular monitoring of social and political attitudes in the European
publics. The Eurobarometer program has later been enlarged by small scale
Flash Eurobarometer and a
Central and Eastern Eurobarometer; later replaced by the
Candidate Countries Eurobarometer.
Eurobarometer data and documentation are stored at the
ICPSR and at the
Zentralarchiv and made available for social science research purposes
(i.e. secondary analysis of the raw data) by the
Social Science Data Archives. Survey results are regularly published
by the Eurobarometer unit of the
European Commission.
ICORE - International
Committee for Research into Elections and Representative Democracy
ICORE support of the development of a data pool
"National Elections in European"
ISSP - The International
Social Survey Programme
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuing annual
programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics
important for social science research. Since 1983 it brings together
pre-existing social science projects and co-ordinates research goals,
thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the
individual national studies.
The secretariate of the ISSP
co-ordinates the official activities of the group. The ZA as the official
archive carries out the data service of the ISSP since 1986.
MetaDater - Metadata Management and Production System for surveys
from Empirical Socio-economic Research
The project is funded under the 5th Framework Programme - Key Action:
Improving the Socio-economic Knowledge Base -
Group: Data infrastructure. It started on
January 1st., 2003 and finished 30th. April 2006.
- General Objectives were to develop
- standards to describe large scale comparative surveys over space and
time and
- tools to produce & manage respective metadata.
- The main products developed are
- the
conceptual data model and two data models models on metadata from
comparative research (RCNS
Data Model,
Q/V Data
model). The recent editions of the three data
model version are made available for further scientific use according to
common information and citation rules;
- The related relational data model is implemented
at the database management systems Oracle and MySql part of the 3-tier
system architecture solution. The prototype of the technical 3-tier
system (User interfaces; Application server, RDBMS) demonstrates the
feasibility of the data model and how to capture, to manage and to
exchange metadata by a modular system. The manifold potentials of the
technical results will be provided to future project developments in
that field by respective initiatives of the consortium.
- The Consortium
consists of eight European CESSDA Archive under coordination of ZA.
Presentations
and Publications
of the outcomes are provided at the respective project's website.
MADIERA -
Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research
Area
It is funded by the
European Commission under the Fifth Framework programme. The overall
goal of the MADIERA project is to develop an effective infrastructure
for the European social science community by integrating data with other
tools, resources and products of the research process. The project
started on December 1st, 2002 and finished 28th. February 2006
NESSIE - Network of Economic and Social Science
Infrastructures in Europe
NESSIE is a cooperation network
of four major European social science research centres. It was launched
in 2001, with the aim of addressing some of the barriers that exist
within Europe to "accurate" and comparative research.
Funded by the European
Commission for four years, the Network is concentrating on
identifying tasks that will make access to large data collections more
feasible and to make recommendations to ensure their comparability
across Europe. It works through a programme of active exchange, seminars
and workshops, and through the implementation of web-based tools for
information exchange and information access.
The four partners are:
© GESIS Uwe Jensen
09.09.2007
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