Survey Data for Collecting, Managing and Curating Social Science Data

The aim of this project is to facilitate expansion of current data management protocols to accommodate social science data for the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) and its regional Climate Science Centers (CSCs). To address this expansion, we (1) identified the best practices and approaches from practitioners/experts through interviews with current curators of social science data, (2) explored the approaches of existing tools and services to determine if they are capable of meeting the needs of the NCCWSC, and (3) conducted a survey of the specific user community, with a focus on social science researchers funded by the NCCWSC and managers of the data within the program. The dataset...

Categories: Data; Tags: National CASC, Science Tools For Managers, Social Science, data collection methodologies, data curation, All tags... data policies, privacy, risk assessment, social data, Fewer tags