Social sciences for a digital world : building infrastructure and databases for the future.
| Other author | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. |
| Other author | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2000. |
| Description | 188 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | http://new.sourceoecd.org/9264176780 |
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| Series | Information society Information society (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) ^A465531 |
| Contents | The challenge of building infrastructure in the social sciences : opening remarks / Marc Renaud -- ch. 1. Social sciences for a digital world : building infrastructure for the future / David Moorman -- ch. 2. Reniventing the social sciences : setting the stage / Luk van Langenhove -- ch. 3. Social sciences databases in OECD countries : an overview / Jun Oba -- ch. 4. Planning large-scale infrastructure : longitudinal databases / Gaston Schaber -- ch. 5. Sharing and preserving data for the social sciences / Denise Lievesley -- ch. 6. New technologies for the social sciences / William Sims Bainbridge -- ch. 7. Final report of the Joint Working Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Statistics Canada on the advancement of research using social statistics / Paul Bernard et al. -- ch. 8. New horizons for the social sciences : geographic information systems / Michael F. Goodchild -- New horizons for qualitative data / Paul Thompson -- List of participants. |
| General note | "This report brings together a selection of the contributions presented at the workshop ... entitled 'Social Sciences for a Digital World: Building Infrastructure for the Future', co-organised by the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and the OECD ... in Ottawa on 6-8 October 1999"--Page 3 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other forms | Also available on the Internet. |
| Genre/form | Conference papers and proceedings. |
| ISBN | 9264176780 |
| ISBN | 9789264176782 |