The challenge is to get the funding
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:57 am
Data infrastructure
At the UK Data Archive, we are currently building an Open Data Platform for the Social Sciences (the Open refers to the fact that the software is open source, not that the data is ‘open’) on a hybrid model, which provides the information security required for sensitive data, the computing power required for ‘big’ data analytics, and hopefully the memory and the storage capacity too. But, to ensure that those users who are able (as well as capable) to undertake analysis within the context of their ‘personal’ computer, the option of downloading (for convenience (as well as information security)) should be possible. End users’ wishes still need to be taken into consideration.
Scalable services and infrastructure needs brazil rcs data to exist to maximise the benefits provided by big data opportunities. Infrastructure and services for data, especially data which are personal are not simply capital costs. Infrastructure and services for these data include hardware and software, but also the skills and human resources to make them function. Shared infrastructure is likely to be more efficient. In the social sciences the ratio of pure capital investment and operational costs may be in the region of 1 to 10; in the hard sciences this ratio may be in the region of 10 (or more) to 1. This imbalance needs to be taken into consideration in investment. Data services will need to demonstrate that investment in this area has (or will have) a return. to build these data platforms, make them work, and maintain them sustainably.
CESSDA
I want to start winding down making some remarks about CESSDA. CESSDA may not be the hosts of this conference, but the main office of CESSDA is located here in Bergen. Most of the European representatives here will be aware of the transformation of CESSDA from a council into a consortium. Some of the bureaucratic detail and formalities are taking a long time to finalise but there is now real progress.
At the UK Data Archive, we are currently building an Open Data Platform for the Social Sciences (the Open refers to the fact that the software is open source, not that the data is ‘open’) on a hybrid model, which provides the information security required for sensitive data, the computing power required for ‘big’ data analytics, and hopefully the memory and the storage capacity too. But, to ensure that those users who are able (as well as capable) to undertake analysis within the context of their ‘personal’ computer, the option of downloading (for convenience (as well as information security)) should be possible. End users’ wishes still need to be taken into consideration.
Scalable services and infrastructure needs brazil rcs data to exist to maximise the benefits provided by big data opportunities. Infrastructure and services for data, especially data which are personal are not simply capital costs. Infrastructure and services for these data include hardware and software, but also the skills and human resources to make them function. Shared infrastructure is likely to be more efficient. In the social sciences the ratio of pure capital investment and operational costs may be in the region of 1 to 10; in the hard sciences this ratio may be in the region of 10 (or more) to 1. This imbalance needs to be taken into consideration in investment. Data services will need to demonstrate that investment in this area has (or will have) a return. to build these data platforms, make them work, and maintain them sustainably.
CESSDA
I want to start winding down making some remarks about CESSDA. CESSDA may not be the hosts of this conference, but the main office of CESSDA is located here in Bergen. Most of the European representatives here will be aware of the transformation of CESSDA from a council into a consortium. Some of the bureaucratic detail and formalities are taking a long time to finalise but there is now real progress.