In Brief
Ministry of Education to support web resource project
The Ministry of Education has granted funds for web resource projects
in political science and sociology. The financing is provided from
funds allocated for developing libraries, archives and information
services. In order to create the web resource, nation-wide working
groups have been set up for both disciplines. In the beginning,
full-time project planners can be hired for a period of six months to
each discipline.
More information:
General: Arja Tuuliniemi, Sami Borg
Political science: Pertti Lappalainen, Juha Holma
Sociology: Jari Aro
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Description database for qualitative data
During the last decades, a great number of significant qualitative
datasets have been collected in Finland. Up till now there has not
existed a methodical way to store or catalogue them. The FSD has
started planning a description database for qualitative material and
is creating a strategy for their storing. To promote these objectives,
the FSD is developing a description standard for qualitative data and
is co-operating with Finnish producers of qualitative data and
international units in the same field.
More information: Arja Kuula
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Introducing the FSD to social scientists
During the Spring the FSD attended several scientific meetings and
seminars. In addition, we visited departments at different
universities telling about the work and services of the archive. In
March it was possible to get acquainted with the archive when an open
day was arranged. During the visits, one of the aims was to
preliminarily canvass whether researchers had data that could
eventually be deposited at the data archive; some material has since
been deposited and several data are expected later. In the Autumn,
scouting for material and presentations of our work and services
continue with visits to a few more university departments and research
institutes.
More information: Maria Forsman
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CESSDA Expert Seminar 2000 to be held in Tampere
An expert seminar of the staff of member archives of CESSDA (Council of European
Social Science Data Archives) is going to be held in Tampere
between August 31 and September 2, 2000. The seminar is arranged by
the FSD, together with ESSDA, the Estonian Social Science Data Archive. The main themes at the
seminar are data security, and DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) and
its utilisation.
More information: Sami Borg (FSD) and Rein Murakas (ESSDA)
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Printed data catalogue in the Autumn
The first printed version of FSD's data catalogue will be published in
the Autumn. FSDneWWWs 3/2000 will be out in the Autumn both in print and
on the web.
More information: Maria Forsman
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