Ir ishSocial ScienceData Archive
ISSDA
Jenny O'Neil l , Data Manager,UCD Librarywww.ucd.ie/issda/ti lda/
O V E R V I E WBackground
Data Services
Services for Researchers
Accessing TILDA Data
www.ucd.ie/issda/tilda/
IRISHSOCIALSCIENCEDATAARCHIVE
ISSDA is
Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data
acquisition, preservation, and dissemination.
Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide
access to quantitative datasets in the social
sciences, and to advance the promotion of
international comparative studies of the Irish
economy and Irish society.
2000ISSDA was set up in 2000
in the Geary Institute in
UCD with support from
the CSO & ESRI.
ISSDA transferred from
the Geary Institute to UCD
Library during the
summer of 2012.
20162012
B A C K G R O U N D
A Data Manager for ISSDA
was hired, highlighting
UCD Library's
continuing commitment
to ISSDA.
COM P AN Y . C OM
DATASERVICES
PROFESSIONALLYCURATED
All data disseminated by
ISSDA have undergone
rigorous checks to ensure
that they are of a high
quality.
ISSDA enhances data
through the creation of
metadata based the Data
Documentation Initiative
(DDI) .
PRESERVEDENHANCED WITHMETADATA
D A T A A R E
ISSDA is committed to
maintaining data resources
for the long term, ensuring
that the archive’s holdings
are always available in
easily accessible forms.
DISSEMINATED VIA ANATIONAL PLATFORM
All data disseminated by
ISSDA have undergone
rigorous checks to ensure
that they are of a high
quality.
ISSDA holds a range of key
Irish and international
comparative datasets, and
makes them available for
secondary analysis by
students, academics, and
researchers in the public
and commercial sectors.
ENCRYPTEDDISSEMINATEDUNDER LICENCE
D A T A A R E
ISSDA uses tools to ensure
that data are encrypted at
ingest and delivery.
We use HEAnet FileSender
to deliver data to
researchers.
DIGITAL OBJECTIDENTIFIERS
ISSDA will roll out Digital
Object Identifiers
(DOIs) for both data and
documentation in the
future.
Nesstar is a software
system for data publishing
and online analysis. Users
can search, browse and
analyse the data online.
NESSTAR
F U T U R E S E R V I C E S
COM P AN Y . C OM
SERVICESFOR
RESEARCHERS
Request data
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Researchers submit an applicationform to ISSDA. This describes whichdata are required, who wil l be usingthe data and what the intended use ofthe data is .
The End User License is signed by theprimary user, who is bound by theterms of the l icence.
www.ucd.ie/issda/ti lda/
Researchers can
Submit queries
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ISSDA supports the re-use of data byhandling researcher queries viaemail . General queries are handledby our Library Assistant.
Data specif ic queries, including thoserelating to variables or methodology,are forwarded to the Data Provider,i f necessary, by the Data Manager.
Researchers can
Register of Use
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ISSDA manages a register of use for twostudies – Growing up in Ireland (GUI) andThe Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing(TILDA). Each register is organised aroundresearch themes according to the researchprojects that have/are being carried out.
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/ti lda/ti ldareg/
Researchers can be included in the
Workshops
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To help researchers re-use datasuccessfully ISSDA is developing aseries of workshops.
So far we have organised a workshopon 'Anonymising Research Data ' withCRNINI.
Researchers can attend
COM P AN Y . C OM
ACCESSINGTILDADATA
Identify the dataset(s)you require
Complete the relevantrequest form
Send the signed consentform to [email protected]
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Documentation
Release Guide Project reportsQuestionnairesCodedebookAnonymisation Actions
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Waves 1&2
Citation &Acknowledgement
It is a requirement of both TILDA(see Release Guide v2.2, p34) andISSDA (see ISSDA_Application_Research_V2.3, section 8) that dataare cited in any work based on thedata.
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