SERSCIDA je zamišljena kao strateški projekat za saradnju i razmenu znanja između EU zemalja koje su uključene u rad Veća Evropskih arhiva podataka iz oblasti društvenih nauka i zemalja Zapadnog Balkana. Projekat je usmeren ka potencijalima upotrebe informaciono-komunikacionih tehnologija u svrhe naučnog istraživanja i razmene znanja, kao što je i navedeno u pozivu za predlaganje tema. Cilj projekta je da se proizvedu konkretni rezultati i poboljšaju kapaciteti za razmenu znanja i podataka prikupljenih kroz istraživanje u oblasti društvenih nauka između Evropskih i zemalja Zapadnog Balkana.
The UK Data Service at the University of Essex has been awarded almost £5 million to form a new service for streamlining research access to Big Data collected by government departments and other agencies.
The money, awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will allow data experts at the University of Essex to ensure that researchers across the country can effectively and securely access large datasets for research that will directly influence policy and ultimately benefit the public.
The visit to the Slovenian Archive for Social Science Data Archive of the Universtity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (ADP) is dedicated to:
SERSCIDA representatives from Western Balkan countries participated, with CESSDA members at the 2nd CESSDA Workshop on Trust. The Workshop took place at the GESIS in Cologne, Germany 1-2 Oct 2013.
The purpose of this Workshop was to present and discuss the Data Seal of Approval Report on GAP Analysis.
The SERSCIDA Steering Board members met to discuss the project implementation and future plans in Zagreb on 17 September, 2013. The usual agenda items included issues concerning finances, communication and reporting. The project partners from Western Balkan countries provided an update of the developments that are leading towards the establishment of data services in each of their countries.
It was concluded that the Western Balkan partner countries now have a sound knowledge of the required structural, legal and policy changes that need to take place in order for the establishment of data archives. It is clear what the tasks are and which institutions will need to be involved in the establishment process.
Infrastructures and institutions that will host the data archives are identified and these are the SERSCIDA partners that will be working in collaboration with their host Universities or other partners. The countries also have an idea of what is the scope of their future data archives when it comes to services they will provide and kinds of data sets they will archive, as well as required resources for this (staff, equipment).
The SERSCIDA project has been met with much appreciation and interest both by policy makers (government institutions) as well as future data users (universities and researchers) which was expressed in high participation at the SERSCIDA International Conference and 4 National Round Tables.
Government institutions recognise the potential for using research funds more efficiently, as data produced will be available for other researchers and policy makers. Government institutions also see a benefit of the establishment of data archives in getting better quality information about researchers involved in social science research. Researchers themselves are keen to share their data and to use secondary data for research and university teaching.
The meeting took place in the beautiful settings of the Council Room of the Dean's Office of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. It was preceded by the meeting of the Work Package 4 - Building capacities for establishment of social science digital data archives.
Projektni partneri iz zemalja Zapadnog Balkana okupili su se na drugom treningu u sklopu WP4. Trening se održava u ADP, Arhivu istraživačkih podataka u oblasti društvenih nauka Univerziteta u Ljubljani, na Fakultetu društvenih nauka od 26. do 27. septembra 2013.g.
'Otvoreni pristup' se odnosi na praksu pružanja neometanog Internet pristupa naučnim tekstovima. Budući da se sva istraživanja i inovacije baziraju na ranijim dostignućima, efikasan sistem za široku disperziju i pristup istraživačkim publikacijama i neobrađenim podacima može ubrzati naučni progres. OECD Deklaracija iz 2008 godine navodi ’’da otvoren pristup i neograničena upotreba podataka promoviše naučni napredak i olakšava obuke istraživača’’ i maksimizira ’’vrednost stvorenu javnim ulaganjem u proces prikupljanja podataka’’. SERSCIDA će se usmeriti na potrebu za poboljšanim i otvorenim pristupom i deljenjem primarnih podataka prikupljenih kroz istraživanja u oblasti društvenih nauka, uz istovremeni pokušaj oživljavanja postojećih državnih strategija i struktura i doprinosu razvoju novih.