Researchers depositing data with the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) must fill out a data submission form. It can be accessed directly from a link on the Research Management and Documentation page or directly as a Word document. I have also saved a copy to the DigiComps folder on Collab (CollabProjectsDigicompsExamples). This is a…
A must-read from the ESDS, Research management and documentation is aimed at researchers who plan to deposit their data with the ESDS. The document discusses best practices for creating and depositing quanititative and qualitative data, including discussion of supporting documentation, explanatory material, contextual information and metadata. This discussion was very helpful to me not only…
This record describing the European Social Survey, 2002-2003 is an example from the UK Data Archive. These fields are interesting because there are subfields. See for example how Coverage includes the subfields Country, Spatial Units, Observation Units, and Kind of Data.
The ICPSR web site features data to download with accompanying documentation. To get to that data, however, one first searches the ICPSR catalog of metadata. The record for the CBS News Call Back Poll, January 2004, for example, uses fields such as title, principle investigator, summary, extent of collection, extent of processing, use restrictions, date…
The UW-Madison DPLS online catalog (which is separate from the University Libraries catalog) is an example of a database of searchable metadata. The metadata provides descriptions of the data and how it can be accessed.
The Electronic Data Center at Emory University is an example of elegant coordination between IT and Library staff to provide data support to academic researchers.
This afternoon I posted to the DigiComps project folder the promised excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is for Nina to use as she goes through the the 2004 comps. Each comp should be accompanied by a descriptive record using this spreadsheet as a template. Please contact me if there are any questions.
Data Interest Group for Reference Services (DIGRS) is a blog for data librarians at smaller institutions to share their experiences with data-related reference questions. An early entry features a nice brief article on conducting a data or statistical reference interview.
Digital Commons@NITLE is a demo page for the institutional repository pilot. The four schools listed (Carleton, Dickinson, Middlebury and Trinity) are the 4 schools that are involved in the pilot project. This is the proposed layout for the highest level of the repository. There is also a demo page for Dickinson that gives you an…
UMI :: Digital Commons@ is an informational page about the digital commons institutional repository service that we are using in our pilot project. There’s a link to a some sample screen images.