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Data Management
DAMES
What do we mean by 'Data Management'?
Data management' is an expression used by social scientists to encompass the tasks associated with linking related data resources, with coding and recoding data in a consistent manner, and with accessing related data resources and combining them within the process of data analysis. The DAMES Node ('Data Management through e-Social Science') involves exploiting technologies and services associated with 'e-Science' in tasks of social science data management. Its activities will cover a series of applied case studies in social science domains which require significant data management (such as in the processing of specialist information resources on occupations, educational qualifications, ethnicity, social care needs, and e-health databases).
What will Social Scientists get out of this work?
The Node will also provide generic services supporting data management in the social sciences (primarily related to quantitative data), and the Node will offer support and capacity building activities (such as training workshops) for social scientists undertaking data management operations. The Node's activities will span a range of data formats, but its services will probably be most useful to social scientists working with survey data.
You can browse a list of outputs here.