Research Catalog

Title

Social sciences for a digital world : Building infrastructure and databases for the future.

Publication

Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Description

188 p.

Summary

This book provides high-level experts’ visions of how the information and communication technologies are providing exciting new research opportunities in the social sciences. It looks at the related infrastructure requirements, particularly at the international level, and highlights some of the barriers to the pervasive use of infrastructure. The book tackles complex questions such as developing infrastructure investments, disseminating best policy practices, developing new surveys - including a global social survey - and sharing research and information resources. It contributes to a better understanding of how policy reform could enhance the impact of the social sciences on efforts to solve global societal problems.

Series Statement

Information Society

Uniform Title

Information Society.

Subject

• Social sciences > Data processing
• Social sciences > Research
• Social surveys > OECD countries
• Infrastructure (Economics) > Technological innovations > OECD countries > Congresses
• Telecommunication > Social aspects > OECD countries > Congresses
• Social prediction > OECD countries > Congresses
• Social Sciences

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Challenge of Building Infrastructure in the Social Sciences: Opening Remarks by Marc Renaud -- Chapter 1. Social Sciences for a Digital World: Building Infrastructure for the Future by David Moorman -- Chapter 2. Reinventing the Social Sciences: Setting the Stage by Luk van Langenhove -- Chapter 3. Social Sciences Databases in OED Countries: An Overview -- Chapter 4. Planning Large-Scale Infrastructure: Longitudinal Databases by Gaston Schaber -- Chapter 5. Sharing and Preserving Data for the Social Sciences by Denise Lievesley -- Chapter 6. New Technologies for the Social Sciences by William Sims Bainbridge -- Chapter 7. Final Report of the Joint Working Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Statistics Canada on the Advancement of Research Using Social Statistics by Paul Bernard et al -- Chapter 8. New Horizons for the Social Sciences: Geographic Information Systems by Michael F. Goodchild -- Chapter 9. New Horizons for Qualitative Data by Paul Thompson -- List of Participants

ISBN

9264176780

OCLC

• 45582194
• SCSB-12475997

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library