Abstract for Poster Session:
For over a year now, a constantly increasing number of research projects
developed to better understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on
society. To obtain thorough and quality assured insights, it is particularly
crucial to share these preliminary data and results in both a timely and
accurate manner. At the same time, the rapid pace of the disease and the ad
hoc mobilisation of resources may also create conditions for inaccurate or
low-quality data that is not useful for secondary use. This would pose the
danger of diminished scientific impact and social value of the collected
data.
To support the quality assurance of research data and a cultural shift
towards Open Science across larger and smaller ad hoc social, behavioural,
educational, and economic research projects on COVID-19, the German Data
Forum (RatSWD) started the so-called Best-FDM1 project. The project builds
on a collection of more than 200 German research initiatives (as of March
2021) which are systematically categorised in terms of discipline,
methodology, research design, and current research phase.
An initial analysis reveals that several larger projects provide very
carefully designed and openly accessible documentations of their results,
questionnaires, and research data management choices that encourage
secondary use of their data or data linkages. However, the awareness of the
importance of Open Science could be enhanced, particularly among researchers
in small ad hoc projects. The Best-FDM project will identify which
incentives are necessary to motivate more researchers to share their data
and to make their (meta-)data transparent and interoperable.
In sum, our poster will present a meta-analysis identifying the gaps
regarding Open Science in the social, behavioural, educational, and economic
COVID-19 research and illustrate measures aimed at enhancing the openness of
these initiatives.
Poster Presenter:
Andrés Saravia
Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Research Associate at the RatSWD Office
asaravia@ratswd.de <mailto:asaravia@ratswd.de>
+49 30 25491-822
1 Bessere Ergebnisse durch Interoperabilität und standardisiertes
Forschungsdatenmanagement: Vernetzung empirischer sozialwissenschaftlicher
