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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract "Metadata, or data about data, play a crucial rule in social sciences to ensure that high quality documentation and community knowledge are properly captured and surround the data across its entire life cycle, from the early stages of production to secondary analysis by researchers or use by policy ... view more
"Metadata, or data about data, play a crucial rule in social sciences to ensure that high quality documentation and community knowledge are properly captured and surround the data across its entire life cycle, from the early stages of production to secondary analysis by researchers or use by policy makers and other key stakeholders. The paper provides an overview of the social sciences metadata landscape, best practices and related information technologies. It particularly
focuses on two specifications - the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Standard (SDMX) - seen as central to a global metadata management framework for social data and official statistics. It also highlights current directions, outlines typical integration challenges, and provides a set of high level recommendations for producers, archives, researchers and sponsors in order to foster the adoption of metadata standards and best
practices in the years to come." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
data; social science; social data; official statistics; data bank; data acquisition; data documentation; data preparation; data organization; data quality; standardization (meth.); information capture; knowledge transfer
Classification
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
22 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 57
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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