This document discusses the need for infrastructure research to support computational social science. It notes current limitations with relying solely on corporate or third-party tools for data access and analysis. Specifically, these tools are not designed for research needs, duplication of effort is required, APIs are limited and changing, and maintaining third-party tools is challenging. The document proposes a large-scale collaborative solution involving data handling and processing, human-computer interaction, and legal/social considerations to better enable social science research. Collaboration with groups like CASCI and DSST is suggested.