Chapter 14: Making data available to others

Question 1

What is the difference between DOI and DAI?

Answer 1

1. DOI - gives you access to individual papers

2. DAI - gives you access to all publications for a particular researcher/author

Question 2

What information should you save when conducting survey research?

Answer 2

1. The codebook with information about the survey and metadata
2. The raw data
3. The syntax used for analysis
4. The final report

Question 3

What elements should you include in the metadata? (9)

Answer 3

1. Researchers
2. Data producers
3. Title
4. Description
5. FUnding soruces
6. Geographic location and time information
7. Sampling method
8. Source of data
9. Survey and analysis software

Question 4

What are the 3 different ways of sharing data?

Answer 4

1. Open acces - unrestricted access for all registered users
2. Restricted access - permission requested, only access after permission is granted
3. Other access - data is not available in a repository but in another way or elsewhere

Question 5

What should be taken into account when publishing the actual data? (3)

Answer 5

1. Use a format that can easily be imported and processed across different platforms (XML)
2. Specify the access rights and restrictions regarding your data
3. Delete all privacy and confidentially breaking information

Question 6

What is the data seal of approval?

Answer 6

1. A quality stamp provided to repositories that are devoted to handling research data in a durable and sustainable way

Question 7

What is the international standard for scientific research regarding decimals?

Answer 7

a point (.)

Question 8

What is the advantage and disadvantage of using a hierarchical structure to allocate the same value for all the same sub values (e.g. all the same schools get coded into a 1)

Answer 8

1. Advantage is saving space

2. Disadvantage is not suitable for importing and exporting files between different programs