News 2014
RatSWD-Working Paper #243
Klaus F. Zimmermann: Evidence-Based Scientific Policy Advice
RatSWD Working Paper #240 and #241
In our Working Paper #240 Bruder et al propose to establish a National Online Laboratory as a new research infrastructure for psychologists. The laboratory should encompass a pool of potential respondents, software for conducting experiments, educational material, and a data archive. In Working Paper #241 they present the results of a survey that highlight the demand in the scientific community.
Knowledge Exchange report on research data published
Sowing the seed: Incentives and Motivations for Sharing Research Data, a researcher´s perspective
European Data Watch-Articles - Vol. 134 (1) 2014
New Register Data from the German Public Employment Service on Counseling and Monitoring the Unemployed
Barbara Hofmann, Markus Köhler
An Overview on the Linked Employer-Employee Data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Jörg Heining, Wolfram Klosterhuber, Stefan Seth
Research Data Alliance: past and future meetings
Report on the 4th Plenary RDA Meeting in Amsterdam and the final program of the upcoming RDA Germany Meeting in Potsdam
Code share
Papers in Nature journals should make computer code accessible where possible.
Standing Committee Research Data Infrastructure (FDI): New chairs elected
During its 11th session on 10 October 2014 in Berlin, the Standing Committee Research Data Infrastructure (FDI) of the German Data Forum has unanimously elected Heike Habla (Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office) and Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (Data Service Center for Business and Organizational Data) as chairs for the next three years. The German Data Forum wants to thank former chairmen Dr. Nikos Askitas (Institute for the Study of Labor) and Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig for their dedication and important work in the standing committee in the years between 2011 – 2014.
Online Survey on "Data Sharing in Academia"
The research project "Science 2.0" of the Leibniz Association is conducting an online survey on the re-use of research data ("Data Sharing").
New Research Data Center accredited - Archive for Spoken German in the Institute for the German Language (FDZ-AGD)
EU Data Protection Regulation: Vital economic and social research could be prevented
Open letter written by Science Europe - Signed by several European Funding Organisations
European Scientists View on Research Data and Corresponding Challenges
Report on the RDA Europe Science Workshop in Munich
Press review: Research Infrastructures in Europe – The Foundations of European Research
Book release on future developments in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Constitution of the RatSWD in the fifth periode of appointment
Regina T. Riphahn, Ph.D. has been elected as the new chair of the German Data Forum and Stefan Bender as its vice chair. More information can be found in the German press release.
Research Data Alliance: Events
RatSWD-Working Paper #239
Frank Mueller-Langer and Patrick Andreoli-Versbach: Open Access to Research Data: Strategic Delay and the Ambiguous Welfare Effects of Mandatory Data Disclosure
Facing the Future: E-Book now available!
Based on last November's conference, the book Facing the Future: European Research Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences is now available as an eBook (Open Access).
Office of the German Data Forum moved within Berlin
The office of the German Data Forum has moved to new premises on Schiffbauerdamm 19 in Berlin. More information can be found in the German press release.
Unlocking further potential in the National Cohort study (NaKo) through comparability with the German Socio‑Economic Panel
RatSWD Working Paper #237 by Hannes Kröger, Jürgen Schupp und Johann Behrens
What Drives Academic Data Sharing?
RatSWD Working Paper #236 by Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike und Marcel Hebing
FDZ-NEPS becomes FDZ-LIfBi
As of January 2014, the National Educational Panel Study is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) at the University of Bamberg—in cooperation with a nationwide network. As part of this institutionalization the FDZ-NEPS is renamed FDZ-LIfBi.
RatSWD-Working Paper #229
by Stefan Bender, Anja Burghardt, and David Schiller
The first part of the paper describes the (international) access to highly sensitive German administrative labour market data and how this international access is expanded within the research data centre in research data centre (RDC in RDC) approach. In the second part a broader view of international access to official microdata in the EU will be given. Starting with a brief overview of the EU-funded project "Data without Boundaries" (DwB) a possible roadmap for international access in Europe and beyond is presented.
