Access Some Areas: Reforming Access Categories for Data in a Social Science Data Archive

Access Some Areas: Reforming Access Categories for Data in a Social Science Data Archive

In this paper we outline the process of revising data access categories for research data sets in GESIS – a large European social science data archive based in Germany. The challenge is to create a minimal set of workable access conditions that cope with a) facilitating as “open as possible, closed...

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Main Authors: Laurence Horton, Anja Perry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2020-12-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/708
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spelling doaj-c5943d6fa1e9440b9b18629f716b8c2d2021-02-02T14:45:17ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562020-12-0115110.2218/ijdc.v15i1.708Access Some Areas: Reforming Access Categories for Data in a Social Science Data ArchiveLaurence Horton0Anja Perry1University of Toronto Faculty of InformationGESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social SciencesIn this paper we outline the process of revising data access categories for research data sets in GESIS – a large European social science data archive based in Germany. The challenge is to create a minimal set of workable access conditions that cope with a) facilitating as “open as possible, closed as necessary” expectations for data reuse; b) map on to existing legacy access categories and conditions in a data archive. The paper covers the work done in gathering data on data access categories used by data archives in their existing data catalogues, the choices offered to depositors of data in their user agreements, and work done by other data reuse platforms in categorising access to their data. Finally, we talk through the process of refining a minimal set of data access conditions for the GESIS data archive.   http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/708
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description In this paper we outline the process of revising data access categories for research data sets in GESIS – a large European social science data archive based in Germany. The challenge is to create a minimal set of workable access conditions that cope with a) facilitating as “open as possible, closed as necessary” expectations for data reuse; b) map on to existing legacy access categories and conditions in a data archive. The paper covers the work done in gathering data on data access categories used by data archives in their existing data catalogues, the choices offered to depositors of data in their user agreements, and work done by other data reuse platforms in categorising access to their data. Finally, we talk through the process of refining a minimal set of data access conditions for the GESIS data archive.  
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