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DwB project and the Regional Workshops
Roxane Silberman
CNRS-Réseau Quetelet and DwB coordinator
2nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens
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DwB project objective in short
DwB main outputs
Cooperation and Regional Workshops
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Data without Boundaries
• A FP7 project, started in May 2011, will end in April 2015
• Increase researchers access to official microdata within the
ERA, both European and national
o With a a focus on transnational access to national highly
detailed microdata (ScUF) including administrative data
• In a context where data issues are increasingly important
for research, for public policies, for the society
o While new data, big data open new paths but also
debates re. privacy protection and open data
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Cooperation at the core of the project
• Building cooperation between the different communities
o European Statistical System
o CESSDA as a European research data infrastructure
• An essential mean to achieve the objective
o Build a more understandable and efficient landscape for the
researchers and the producers
o Develop exchanges resulting in better quality of data and more data
used
o Better share the burden in a context of increasing demand
• 28 partners from the different communities (8 NSIs/NSAs)
o And the whole communities continuously involved workshops
conferences
o Regional workshops as part of this effort
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From the state of play …
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A general trend towards more access to official microdata both at European and
national level , however:
A fragmented landscape: no single point of access for discovery and access, silos
Lack of information
o Metadata and information about access not available or insufficient, language
issues
Lack of harmonisation: terminology, procedures, implementation, standards, access
systems
Substantial obstacles
o Legal frameworks and interpretations for ScUF and transnational access
Resulting in
o No access, unfriendly access, loss of time, duplication, no possibility to work
together for researchers
o Rich resources underused for data producers and society
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… to the project objectives
• Discovery
 Discuss and prepare a single point of access
 Discuss standards and start improving metadata, solving language issues
• Access
 Share a common understanding of legal obstacles, interpretation and
possible solutions
 Discuss harmonisation of the accreditation procedures
 Propose an architecture and build a pilot for a European Remote Access
Network (EuRAN) for Secure Use Files
 Improve methods for anonymisation
 Support immediate use of OS by researchers
• Dialogue: Promote the dialogue between the different communities
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Main outputs from the project
• Different types
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Operational products
Concepts
Plots, prototypes, proof of concepts
Standards`
Improved cooperation and changes in practices
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Discovery
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Users’ stories as a background
 A long term perspective requiring active involvement of NSIs
• Portal prototype for harvesting metadata with different standards and
guidelines & tools for stakeholders that will prepare single point of access
aligned with the CESSDA catalogue`
 Immediate operational products
o MISSY: Eurostat metadata base
o CIMES: National OS metadata base
o Routines for facilitating OS data usage (Data-reading “Setup Files”, .csv
data-importing R-scripts, etc.)
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MISSY (Microdata Information System)
• Documentation tool (provided by GESIS/Germany)
• Adapted for the needs of DwB for documenting Eurostat
microdata
• Database documenting EU-Integrated datasets
• (SILC, LFS, AES, CIS and SES)
• Down to the variable level + online informationintegrating codebook
• Friendly metadata
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CIMES (Centralising and Integrating Metadata from
European Statistics)
• Documentation tool developed by CNRS-RQ and CASD/France
• Metadata base currently documenting over 1900 national
studies from 28 European countries
• DDI based
• Including a section on
 Type of files (PUF,CUF, SUF, ScUF)
 Criteria for access (researchers, PHD ..)
 Links to providers and application forms
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CIMES fields
Series level
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Alternative Title
Abstract
Keywords
Geographic Coverage
Time Period Covered
Time Method
Notes
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Study level
Title
Subtitle
Alternative Title
Producer
Abstract
Keywords
Geographic Coverage
Universe
Sampling Procedure
Date of Collection
Time Period Covered
Kind of Data
Documents
Sources
Notes
Dataset level
Dataset Identification Number
Name
Access conditions
Other Access Conditions
Description of accreditation procedures
Contact
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… and further developments
Soon open for public
• Further developments:
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More studies,
Variable level
Allow access for providers/producers
A basis for the CESSDA portal development
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Access
Users’ stories and Use Cases as background
• Immediate operational outputs: National accreditation & access
procedures factsheets, Legal Frameworks visualization tool
• Standards: Accreditation Standard Design Principles, ISO Norm for Security
Requirements
• Technical concept & workflow for a European Remote Access Network
(EuRAN) that would allow the researchers to work with data located in
different RDCs/countries together with researchers located in different
places
+ Pilot and Proof of Concept
• Guidelines for Output Checking, Innovative methods for SDC & Software
package
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Within the current framework, immediate support to
researchers access
• DwB has supported real research projects (35 projects
selected so far in 6 calls)
o With 7 RDCs from 4 countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, UK)
cooperating together
• Training courses for the researchers on specific data sources
(e.g. SILC, LFS, AES, Censuses)
o 6 courses (5th in Barcelona on censuses; 6th in Athens on
AES)
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Dialogue and cooperation
• Getting a better common understanding of respective needs
and requirements
• Discussing and setting up solutions
• Inside DwB and beyond, through workshops, events, visits
• 2 European Data Access Forum gathering all stakeholders about
access issues, Next: Luxembourg, March 24-25, 2015
• 2 Users’ conferences bridging researchers and producerse about EULFS and EU-SILC in cooperation with GESIS and Eurostat, Mannheim,
Next: March 5-6, 2015
• Staff visits in RDCs promoting Remote access as a basis for a EuRA
• And … Regional workshops
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Regional workshops
• Foster cooperation between archives and Nsis at national
level
• Discuss best forms of cooperation
• Crucial as a basis for setting up a European infrastructure
• 1st Regional workshop, Ljubljana
 Outputs (see presentation)
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• Perimeter
 Southern countries
 Countries not involved in DWB project
 Examples of cooperation developments in some other
countries
• Some specific situations
 No archives
 New process or on-going discussions in several countries
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Agenda
• State of play on access to OS data and cooperation with focus
on the region
• Results from the 1st workshop
• Examples of NSIs and Archives activities regarding metadata
and access to data
• Discussing cooperation based on examples in the region and
elsewhere
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Thank you for listening and have a
good work !
More information at:
www.dwbproject.org
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