Data Access in a Cyber World: Making Use of Cyberinfrastructure

The vast amount of data now collected on human beings and organizations as a result of cyberinfrastructure advances has created similarly vast opportunities for social scientists to study and understand human behavior. It has also made traditional ways of protecting social science data obsolete. The challenge to social scientists is to exploit advances in cyberinfrastructure to develop new access modalities that not only provide access but preserve data and create scientific communities. This paper outlines an approach that draws on both advances in the social science and the computer science literatures.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TDP
• Authors: Julia Lane, Pascal Heus, Tim Mulcahy
• Keywords: Social Science, Social Science Data, Social Scientists, TDP 2008