Brigitte Hausstein (Central Archive Cologne/Berlin, Germany) Larisa Kosova/Ludmila Khahulina (Russian Social Data Archive at IISP, Moscow) Janez Stebe (Slovenian Data Archive, University of Ljubljana) IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” The Data Infrastructure in Eastern Europe Current Situation and Prospects

1.Development of Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe 2.EDAN: Its Aims and Activities 3.Prospects of further Networking 4.The Russian Sociological Data Archive: 5 Years of Growth 5.The Slovenian Data Archive (ADP) Topics IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services”

ZA: Cooperation with Eastern Europe IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” Promote the transfer of knowledge, exchange of data, development of networks Provide users access to multiple data sourcescontained in the (West) European and American Data Archives Provide users access to multiple data sources contained in the (West) European and American Data Archives Support the development of archive initiatives in Eastern Europe

1.Hungary: TARKI (1985) Development of Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe before 1990 IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” 2.USSR: All Union Data Bank – DB (1985)

3.Estonia: 3.Estonia: ESSDA (1994) 4.Latvia: 4.Latvia: LSZDA (1996) 5.Slovenia: 5.Slovenia: ADP (1997) 6.Czech 6.Czech Republic: Republic: SDA SDA (1998) Development of Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe since 1990 IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” 7.Russia: RSDA (2001) 8.Romania: RODA (2001) 9.Slovakia: SASD (2002) 10.Bulgaria: SSDA (2002) 11.Poland: ADS (2003)

Organisational Settings Organisational Settings IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” n = 11 Data Archives

Current Situation Current Situation IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services”  Small budgets  Lack of accumulated resources, expertise and personnel  Small data collections  Need for special training

Data Archives from Hungary, Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia Bulgaria, Poland Data Archives from Hungary, Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia Bulgaria, Poland Data Archive Initiatives in Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine Data Archive Initiatives in Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine East European Data Archive Network IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” Informal network designed to unite data archives which are at an early stage of theirexistence and share common problems EDAN was founded at the UNESCO workshop “Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe” in 2002

Make sure that the Eastern European data archives will catch up with the advanced western data archives Make sure that the Eastern European data archives will catch up with the advanced western data archives Coordinate efforts for setting up new archives Coordinate efforts for setting up new archives Close co-operation with IFDO and CESSDA Close co-operation with IFDO and CESSDA EDAN: Aims IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” EDAN Coordinator: GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe/Central Archive

EDAN Activities IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” Workshops on meta data production (Sofia 2003, Ljubliana 2004) Joined applications to funding organisations (EU, ESF) Exchange of knowledge and experiences (Mailing list)

Prospects (1) IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” Open to CESSDA members as well as to those archives and archive initiatives which are working on becoming a member Creating a European Infrastructure for Social Sciences Integrate EDAN activities under CESSDA umbrella “New Archives Group”

Prospects (2) IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” 1.Encouragement and aid of CESSDA (general guidance, advanced seminars etc.) and 2.Assistance and support of a group (network) which shares the problems of the beginners: lack of accumulated resources, expertise and personnel, no participation in previous CESSDA projects. New and small data archives need:

IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” „The greatest gain being always that of the late-comers.” Prof. Erwin Scheuch (1990):

Archive Reports IASSIST Edinburgh, 2005: Session “Transforming National Data Services” 1.The Russian Sociological Data Archive: 5 Years of Growth 2.The Slovenian Data Archive (ADP)

RSDA Collection: 482 studies Ad hoc studies Monitoring of social and economic change ( ) ISSP Modules Comparing with beginning of 2002 the number of deposited studies increased almost 10 times. Russian Sociological Data Archive (RSDA)

Russian Sociological Data Archive (RSDA) Number of RSDA customers doubled during 2004 In 2003 almost 70% of inquiries came from Moscow; in 2004 more than 50% inquiries came from other regions of Russia. There are 20 regional universities among our new customers

Russian Sociological Data Archive (RSDA) WE PROVIDE OUR USERS WITH: Catalogue on-line Survey title Fieldwork terms N 1. Europe and Germany by Eyes of Russians 2. Woman of New Russia Search on-line key words wording Frequences on-line Monitoring of Economic and Social Changes in Russia HOW WILL YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION CHANGE WITHIN NEXT 6 MONTHS? n % val% cum% will improve remain the same will become worse ,3 don’t know TOTAL WE KEEP WORKING ON: On-going seminars for users More than 70 participants from different Russian regions took part in the seminars by the moment. Translation About 90 questionnaires have been translated into English by the moment Rubricator search By the end of the year we are to index all questions in all deposited studies using automatic means that allows to implement rubricator searching (this work is conducting together with UIS RUSSIA )