The selection, appraisal, and retention of social science data

The number of data collections produced in the social sciences prohibits the archiving of every scientific study. It is therefore necessary to make decisions regarding what can be preserved and why it should be preserved. This paper reviews the processes used by two data archives, one from the Unite...

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Main Authors: M Gutmann, K Schürer, D Donakowski, Hilary Beedham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2006-01-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/308