Strengthening institutional data management and promoting data sharing in the social and economic sciences

Monika Linne; Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen

doi:10.18352/lq.10195

Authors

Monika Linne GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln,, DE
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln,, DE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10195

Keywords:

data curation, data archiving, research data repository, research data management, digital preservation, data sharing

Abstract

In the German social and economic sciences there is a growing awareness of flexible data distribution and research data reuse, especially as increasing numbers of research funders recommend publishing research data as the basis for scientific insight. However, a data-sharing mentality has not yet been established in Germany attributable to researchers’ strong reservations about publishing their data. This attitude is exacerbated by the fact that, at present, there is no trusted national data sharing repository that covers the particular requirements of institutions regarding research data. This article discusses how this objective can be achieved with the project initiative SowiDataNet. The development of a community-driven data repository is a logically consistent and important step towards an attitude shift concerning data sharing in the social and economic sciences.

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Author Biographies

Monika Linne, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln,, DE

Monika Linne is a member of the team “Archive Instruments and Metadata Standards” at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Department Data Archive for the Social Sciences. After her studies of the social sciences she worked for the Federal Centre for Health Education of Germany in the field of health databases. Following that she was employed as a Scientific Project Manager for media analysis at Unicepta in Cologne. Since 2010 she is employed at GESIS as a scientific associate. Furthermore, she is conducting social network analyses on team work for her dissertation.
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln,, DE

Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen studied sociology, political science and communication science. He worked as a research associate and as head of IT for the Central Archive for Empirical Social Sciences and is currently leading the team Archive Instruments and Metadata Standards at the department Data Archive for the Social Sciences of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany.