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Entanglement of bibliographic database content and data collection practices : rethinking data integration using findings from a European study
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Abstract
This paper proposes transparency and reflexivity as two principles to be incorporated in initiatives wherein data from multiple national contexts are integrated. The necessity of these principles is derived from an ongoing study tasked with identifying and describing national bibliographic databases for research output within the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. The study is carried out within the context of the COST Action European Network for Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH). Within ENRESSH, it is emphasised that national bibliographic databases can be instrumental in enhancing the visibility of research within SSH. Hence, one of the aims of ENRESSH is to identify and describe currently existing databases and eventually design a roadmap for a European database that would include data on research output within SSH from different European countries. The study shows that there are considerable challenges in merely acquiring a basic description of the content of databases embedded in different national contexts. To make sense of the content it is necessary to acknowledge the role of context in information systems. Emphasising context, as will be shown, it is possible to elucidate the nature of the encountered challenges as well as to highlight aspects to be incorporated in designs of research information systems.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Procedia computer science
Source (book)
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems, CRIS2018, FAIRness of Research Information, June 14-16, 2018, Umeå University, Sweden / Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Ed Simons, Anna Clements, Pablo de Castro, Johan Bergström [edit.]
Publication
Amsterdam : Elsevier , 2019
ISSN
1877-0509
DOI
10.1016/J.PROCS.2019.01.094
Volume/pages
146 (2019) , p. 201-207
ISI
000561058500021
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