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Using the Data Consortium Database
- The Data Consortium Database is a subset of the larger 'Resource Database,' and has the same features and rules.
- The Database is ‘readable’ for all visitors, but you must be logged in to ‘write’—i.e. add, edit, comment, or make use of advanced features of the database.
- Once logged in, the database works like a highly-structured wiki:
you can create or edit profiles, and describe their relationship to other profiles: people,
institutions.
- We hope to create a rich basis of comments from researchers and librarians about access and use of different datasets. These will be intermittently curated.
- SSRC Staff assign the Access Category for different datasets. For more information on what these mean, see Categories of Access.
- SSRC Research Hubs are part of a connected system
that maintains one master copy of each profile. When adding new
profiles to this hub, the system will alert you to possible duplicates
or existing entries in other Research Hubs. These can (and should!) be
'imported' into the current Hub, rather than recreated separately.
- The Database uses structured ‘topic taxonomies’
(i.e. we maintain it), but also permits user-added terms that can be
promoted into the main taxonomy. This allows for flexibility over time,
but it will always be a rough and imperfect outline of the field—never
an exhaustive list. Please weigh this when suggesting new topics.
- Etiquette:
the Database and Research Hubs are maintained by the SSRC for academics,
practitioners, advocates, policymakers, and other producers and users
of research. Because the Hubs are also a community-produced tool in
which profiles can be written by third parties, the quality of the data
depends heavily on the goodwill of the user community. SSRC staff
reserve the right to make judgments about how these goals are best
pursued on the site, including editing comments and excluding users who
do not respect the purposes of the site. To report a problem, please
write researchhubs@ssrc.org
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Broad-based access to data is a condition of good media and communications research and policymaking. The Data Consortium rates access to datasets according to three general categories.
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Open Access
Available to anyone at no cost. Datasets in this category may be public domain, Creative Commons-licensed, or freely available under some other licensing arrangement.
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Some Restrictions
These datasets are freely available under certain conditions, such as for use in 'public policy' research.
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Commercial Access
These datasets are available only through commercial contracts.
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