Presentation by Stuart Macdonald of the Edinburgh University Data Library at the Graduate School of Social and Political Science Induction, 15 and 16 Septeber, 2011, University of Edinburgh
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Introduction to the University Data Library and national data services
1. Introduction to the University Data Library and national data services Stuart Macdonald Graduate School of Social & Political Science Induction 15 & 16 September, 2011
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5. Data Library - http:// www.ed.ac.uk /is/data-library
16. ESDS features include: Data – full/partial catalogue search, browse by subject, also links to major studies, new releases Support – finding data, online guides, learning and teaching resources, online data analysis tools (NESSTAR), external statistical sources, FAQ Resources – Online data browsing tools, DDI tools, qualitative tools Advice for creating and depositing research data - best practice for ESRC researchers and beyond, preservation guidelines News & Events – workshops, new data, publications (incl. good practice guides)
17. The Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) are a sample of individual person-level records drawn from the 1991 and 2001 Census databases that have been anonymised. Each file contains a broad range of socio-demographic characteristics for respondents. Interaction data involve flows of individuals in the UK between origins and destinations. These flows are either the residential migrations of individuals from one place of usual residence to another or of commuters making journeys from home to workplace via CIDER Longitudinal studies are data sources that contain observations of the same research units over a period of time – e.g. ONS Longitudinal Study of England and Wales, Scottish Longitudinal Study – linking census data to vital statistics via CELSIUS
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19. Casweb - http:// casweb.mimas.ac.uk ( NOTE: Casweb soon to be replaced by InFuse - http://infuse.mimas.ac.uk/ )
Apps Div – developing computer applications and bespoke computing tool solutions for the university as a whole IT infrastructure – Networks, Audio-visual support, telephony/ISDN connectivity
One was because disk storage was a scarce and expensive resource. Researchers wanted and petitioned for centrally-managed university wide provision of access to large-scale datasets, typically the decennial population censuses for Scotland, the annual agricultural censuses for England & Wales and for Scotland, the General Household Surveys and a range of digitized boundaries being used in what was still path-breaking ways to do computerized mapping.
Reference interview
GEO-REFER – geographical referencing resources for social scientists, Go-Geo!, ESRI Virtual Campus plus Macro and Microdata teaching resources
Security, backing up, data storage, data documentation and metadata, file formatting, versioning, preservation and sharing, copyright and ethical concerns, IPR etc
The Secure Data Service (SDS) is funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) and enables safe and secure remote access by researchersx to data deemed too sensitive, detailed, confidential or potentially disclosive to be made available under standard licensing and dissemination arrangements.
GDP, birth rate, illiteracy rates, population, household consumption, external trade indicators, import-export figures, earnings, labour costs, employment, health care expenditure etc Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank etc
Thematic user guides – food studies, ethnicity, scotland, introductory guides to using govt surveys for health / crime research user guides for the Beyond 20/20 and CommonGIS, Nesstar WebView, and ESDS Qualidata online data services Statistical software user guides (SPSS, Stata) Dataset guides (as per each of the 4 ESDS areas)
Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research - home to workplace - and migration statistics – from one geographic region to another (WICID) – large matrices
UKBORDERS Digimap Collection Go-Geo! Agcensus Moving pictures and sound services - EIG, newsFilm Online Plus A&I databases The Depot HILT GetRef LOCKSS PePRS
Geology Digimap - largest scale geology data (1:50,000) available with national coverage for the UK, A mid-scale (1:250,000) product with Bedrock and Faults layers, Small scale mapping (1:625,000) for the whole of the UK.
SNS will diseminate a range of small area statistics including information on health, education, poverty, unemployment, housing, population, crime and social / community issues at the data zone level and above which support a number of the Governments targets and commitments aimed at closing the gap between disadvantaged areas and the rest of Scotland.