02 September, 2010
No. 154 by Carolin Haeussler:
Information-Sharing in Academia and the Industry: A Comparative Study
31 August, 2010
On the Respective Roles of National Libraries, National Archives and Research Data Centers in the Preservation of and Access to Research Data
John Pullinger (UK Data Forum) and Gert G. Wagner (German Data Forum)
19 August, 2010
"Let’s make science metrics more scientific"
to be given by Prof. Julia Lane
15 September, 2010, 5.00 pm - 6.30 pm, followed by a get-together
Schumpeter Hall at DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, Berlin
12 August, 2010
The German Data Forum (RatSWD) adopted these recommendations at its 25th meeting on June 25, 2010, in Berlin. The recommendations will be published together with the underlying expert reports in a two-volume compendium: German Data Forum (RatSWD) (ed.), Building on Progress – Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences. Opladen, Budrich, 2010.
29 July, 2010
The Bundesbank's Macroeconomic Real-time Database for the German Economy
Thomas Knetsch
New Data and Services for Vocational Education and Training Research - Research Data Centre of the Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training (BIBB-FDZ)
Holger Alda und Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt
28 July, 2010
No. 151 by Keith Dugmore
Information collected by Commercial Companies: What might be of value to Official Statistics? The case of the UK Office for National Statistics
27 July, 2010
13 July, 2010
At the end of June, 2010, the "Alliance of German Science Organisations" established principles for the handling of research data. Gert Wagner, the Chairperson of the German Data Forum (RatSWD), expressly welcomes these principles.
06 July, 2010
No. 149 by Jan Brase
DataCite - A global registration agency for research data
05 July, 2010
Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan's essay "The Weirdest People in the World?," which was prepublished as RatSWD Working Paper No. 139, has received great attention. It has been reported in the journal "Science" and in another journal "NATURE" the authors summarized their rather long article.
See also discussion of the Original Paper in: Behavioral and Brain Science.
30 June, 2010
No. 147 by Nikos Askitas
What Makes Persistent Identifiers Persistent?
23 Juni, 2010
The Chairman of the Census Commission, Prof. Dr. Gert Wagner, was recently hosted at Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI, Bundesministerium des Innern) to inform Minister Thomas de Maizière on the work of the Census Commission and the necessary methodological preparations from a scientific perspective.
07 June, 2010
Two members of the German Data Forum (RatSWD) were appointed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the Scientific Advisory Board of the BMBF Framework Programme for the Promotion of Empirical Educational Research. The appointees are Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat, Director of the German Institute for Educational Progress (IQB) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, Chair of the German Data Forum. Additionally, Prof. Dr. Heike Solga of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Free University of Berlin, who is also a former chair of the German Data Forum, was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board.
The German Data Forum congratulates Petra Stanat for accepting a position as director of the IQB, a role which she has fulfilled since March 2010.
26 May, 2010
No. 146: Thomas Siedler and Bettina Sonnenberg
Experiments, Surveys and the Use of Representative Samples as Reference Data
No. 145: Gabriele Rolf-Engel
The Recommendations of the Commission to Improve the Informational Infrastructure between the Scientific Community and Official Statistics (KVI) and their Realization since 2001
19 May, 2010
No. 143: Olaf Groh-Samberg and Ingrid Tucci
Qualitative Interviewing of Respondents in Large Representative Surveys
No. 142: Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics:
How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
12 May, 2010
No. 141: Simon Gächter
(Dis)advantages of student subjects: what is your research question?
No. 140: Jürgen Schupp and Joachim R. Frick
Multidisciplinary Household Panel Studies under Academic Direction
06 May, 2010
Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan
The Weirdest People in the World?
06 May, 2010
The Working Group "Regional Price Comparisons," which was appointed by the German Data Forum (RatSWD), has begun its assigned task. The goal of the Working Group is to discuss the varying possibilities for data collection as well as to formulate recommendations on how to establish a regional price level index. The Working Group is currently jointly chaired by Joachim Möller (Director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) from the Federal Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency (BA)) and Uwe Blien (also from the IAB) and its constituent meeting took place in Berlin on the 28th of April.
15 April, 2010
Julia Lane: Let’s make science metrics more scientific
15 April, 2010
May 5, 2010, Conference Center of the German Federal Press, Berlin
The Working Group "National Death Index", which was installed by the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) and is headed by Dr. med. Sabine Luttmann and Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Ulrich Mueller, will hold a workshop on the preparation of a German national mortality register on the 5th of May, 2010. Experts from numerous disciplines will present and discuss the current challenges facing research and the reporting of mortality data in Germany. Additionally, the workshop will serve as a platform for the exchange of experiences in dealing with mortality registers abroad as well as at the local level.
For more information, please contact Martina Schmidt-Stolte: schmidtstolte@staff.uni-marburg.de
07 April, 2010
Frauke Kreuter and Carolina Casas-Cordero: Paradata
31 March, 2010
On the Expansion of the RatSWD Research Data Infrastructure Through the Research Data Center (FDZ) PsychData of the Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID).
25 March, 2010
As of March, 2010, the Research Data Center PsychData (FDZ-Psychdata) of the Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) is a certified member of the RatSWD research infrastructure. The Research Data Center Psychdata runs a platform for the archiving, documenting, and exchange of psychological data.
23 March, 2010
Overview of International Household Panel Studies
German Council of Science and Humanities
22 March, 2010
The KfW / ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn
The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany
Joachim Wagner
15 March, 2010
Doping and Competition Intensity
Published in the Journal SCHMOLLERS JAHRBUCH, Supervised by the RatSWD - Journal of Applied Social Sience Studies (Vol. 130, Book 1, 2010).
09 March, 2010
Workshop - Possibilities for the Use of Combined Firm Data Obtained from Official Statistics and Other Sources - Exemplary Analyses on the Effects of Works Council and Supervisory Board Participation
23-24 September 2010, Leuphana University Lüneburg
15 February, 2010
Are Indicators of Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction as a Political Goal Meaningful? (currently only available in German)
Denis Huschka, Gert G. Wagner
18 Januar, 2010
This issue (currently only available in German) informs readers about the Science Council’s evaluation, judged according to own its recommendations, of the success of the RatSWD. There is also a variety of news about upcoming conferences as well as the activities of the RatSWD.
18 Januar, 2010
As of the 1st of January 2010, a pilot project has been running at the University of Bielefeld. This project concerns preparatory measures for establishing a data service centre for business and organisational data.
Further information is available in German in the RatSWD Newsletter No. 11 on page 6.
18 Januar, 2010
For quite some time, there has been intense debate within the natural sciences about authorship guidelines for publications. The new year’s editorial of the journal "Science" discusses the central aspects of this debate. In light of the increasing complexity of empirical inquiries and analyses, this topic will surely also soon reach the social, economic and behavioural sciences.
18 Januar, 2010
The Joint Science Conference (GWK) requested that the Leibniz Association create a working group for "Information Infrastructure." This working group met for the first time in December 2009 in Berlin under the chairmanship of Sabine Brünger-Weilandt of FIZ Karlsruhe. At this meeting, a steering committee was appointed, of which the chairperson of the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD), Gert G. Wagner, is also a member.
11 Januar, 2010
The German Research Foundation (DFG) invites project proposals in the area of "informational structures for research data" to be handed in by the 10th of April, 2010. The call for proposals is intended to support projects concerning systems for the provision of scientific literature and information (LIS). In particular, projects will be supported that fit into one of the following two categories:
Further information (only in German) is available here.
04 Januar, 2010
Long-Term Observation of Society
Collaborative Research Programme 3 and its Long-Term Effects
Wolfgang Glatzer
