schools of thought: The infrastructure school (which is concerned with the technological architecture), the public school …

Nations. But data are also essential for the support of social and economic developments in national contexts. I was asked to … reflect on three questions in my talk, namely: Why should we share our data? How can data sharing be organized? And what are …

Matched employer-employee (panel) data sets are gaining increasing importance in the analysis of labour markets. In … collaboration with Statistics Austria we recently initiated the set up of a matched employer-employee panel data set for Austria …, which covers the years 2002-2005. The aim of the paper is to introduce the data set to a broader audience. We first present …

Ergebnisse einer Studie des DFG-geförderten Projekts EDaWaX (European Data Watch Extended) präsentiert und diskutiert, bei der …

This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main … question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both … quantitative and qualitative social science research. The first two sections focus mainly on aspects of data documentation, in …

to use the metadata schema of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI); Dublin Core was used by 30 percent (multiple … four respondents also stated to support researchers in creating metadata for their data. Application programming interfaces …This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis among scientific infrastructure service providers. These service …

Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an … – is the second least relevant factor as far as registered voters in Germany are concerned. However, the study also shows …

Mandatory data disclosure is an essential feature for credible empirical work but comes at a cost: First, authors might … invest less in data generation if they are not the full residual claimants of their data after their first publication …. Second, authors might "strategically delay" the time of submission of papers in order to fully exploit their data in …