Preparing Data for Sharing

Download or read book Preparing Data for Sharing written by and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This data guide takes readers through the cycle of social science research, from applying for a research grant, through conducting the data collection phase, and ultimately to preparing the data for deposit in archives or data repositories. An adaptation of the fourth edition of the Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving of 2009 by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, this publication will help researchers to manage, document, and archive their data and to think broadly about which types of digital content should be deposited in such an archive.