1. FORSbase SEEDS meeting May 5 th, 2015, Lausanne Bojana Tasic

2. FORSbase Strategic Vision Technical View 2 FORS Web BFS Survey Tool (ex SHP) Catalogue Tool (Compass) Inventory & Archive Primary Research Data Survey MetadataBFS MetadataArchive Metadata … Tool … Metadata Common Functions... International site Tools Primary Data Metadata FORSbase

3. Schedule Version 1.0 Research Inventory Version 2.0 Data Archive Version 3.0 Survey Tool Summer 2013 December 2015 2016 3

4.  DARIS FORS:  Research inventory (10,000 project descriptions, 15,500 researchers and 4,000 institutions)  Data catalogue (400 datasets)  Needs:  Services covering the entire life cycle of research data  Simplified archiving and publishing  Simplified access  Promotion of secondary analysis  Renewal of the infrastructure  Integrated workspace for collaborators and researchers 4

5. FORSbase characteristics  A work environment for social scientists and FORS collaborators  Support for the entire data life cycle  Integrated data storage for primary data and metadata  Data preparation and exchange via standards (DDI etc.)  OAIS compliant data archive 5

6. Big Picture Inventory & Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download FORSbase Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 6

7. Big Picture Inventory & Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 7

8. Big Picture Inventory & Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 8

9. Big Picture Inventory & Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 9

10. Big Picture Inventory & Archive FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 10

11. Big Picture Inventory & Archive Compass FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules 11

12. Big Picture Inventory & Archive FAOR ManageAccessIngest FORS Archive Future Module Future Process Future Module Personal Workspace Repo- sitory FORS Workspace Study Elaboration Submission Quality Assurance Publication/ Archive Search, Browse Researcher/ Producer FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer Project Inventory Communication, Messaging etc. NESSTAR Adaptor Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access Download Users Processes Environment Global Functions Modules Compass 12

13. DEMO forsbase.unil.ch 13

14. Big Picture Survey Tool 14 Survey Institute Trans- lations Primary Data "Tester" new questions DE EN FR DE EN FR Survey Tool 1) Question? ☐ a ☐ c ☐ b ☐ d 2) Question? ☐ 1 - 10 ☐ 11 - 50 ☐ 51 - 100 conduct survey validate questionnaire re-use questions store data update data Data Treatment check & enhance data SPSS SAS R SPSS SAS R Labeled Data publish data & metadata order translation ✔ XML Web PDF import & export old questionnaires Question DB Results Process Data

15. SMT light 15

16. 16 SMT light Requirements  Questionnaires  Create/edit/delete questionnaires and duplicate existing ones  Export from/to Excel format  Simple versioning  Questions  Create/edit/delete questions in multiple languages  Link questions (to different questionnaires)  Search and edit all occurrences of one question  Link questions to answer categories  Maintain some metadata per question (status, origin, …)  Filters  Group questions in sections, reorder questions

17. DEMO 17

18. Any questions? 18