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Searching beyond datasets in the Social Sciences
1) State of the art search capabilities at GESIS include curated datasets with metadata and additional materials as well as harvested datasets and linking infrastructure between items. 2) Integrated search allows linking of papers and datasets in both directions to help users. 3) However, social scientists often want to reuse specific parts of datasets, like questions on a particular topic, requiring more fine-grained retrievability and linkages within datasets.
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- 1. Searching beyond datasetsin the Social Sciences Philipp Mayr International Workshop on Data Search SIGIR 2018 July 12th, 2018 https://datasearch-ws.github.io/2018/
- 2. State of theart @GESIS • Curated datasets (surveys, longitudinal data, …) – Metadata/documentation, keywords – Additional materials (questionnaires, codebooks, …) – Raw data • Harvested datasets • Linking infrastructure (links between items)
- 3. Integrated Searching 3 A paperlinked with a data set A data set linked with papers https://search.gesis.org/
- 4. A social sciencedataset 4 https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5957
- 5. Beyond • Linking studieswith papers and visa versa is helping the user • But social scientists often want to reuse certain parts of a dataset (e.g. are interested in the data of a set of questions , e.g. „belief“) • There is a need for more fine-grained retrievability and linkages of datasets 5
- 6. Step 1: Extractionof questions and variables And make questions etc. searchab Citable!
- 7. Step 2: Linkingof questions to papers and vice versa • E.g. a researcher is planing a study of „migrants and their educational backgrounds“ and wants to reuse certain questions of an existing study 7 Challenge: Finding the questions which have been used in a certain study Metastudy of the utilization of a set of questions across papers
- 8. Step 3: Providingmore advanced search facilities • An advanced search interface is helping to find right datasets 8
- 9. Discussion • There mightbe dozens of such specific use cases in DATA SEARCH • A Google for data can help finding dataset but more advanced applications are requested 9
- 10. Thank you Contact: Dr PhilippMayr GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Email: philipp.mayr@gesis.org Twitter: @philipp_mayr 10