Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure

Overview offers <Data content offerings, <The interface <Downloading data <A little hands on <Other…..? Also in the end it may perhaps be best to break up this powerpoint and have single powerpoints on each feature listed above??? Thoughts???

Ontario’s Academic Libraries started thinking about moving beyond ‘home-grown’ data solutions, adopting the DDI standard, and building a province- wide data solution. The result of this process was OCUL & Ontario Buys Commerc ial Softwa re Schola rs Portal DDI Standa rd

What offers <DDI compliant < Search by keyword for surveys and survey questions < Do basic data exploration and analysis on the web < Download full datasets or subsets in popular formats < Export tables and charts

GALLUP 55 years of Canadian Gallup Polls ( ) Survey and aggregate data via the Data Liberation Initiative Ipsos polls are coming soon…

Decima Research Limited Links to over 500 polls, and counting… Environment Canada Health Canada Centre for Research and Information on Canada

Data from SSHRC and CIHR-funded academic research Canadian Institutes of Health Research Selected surveys and metadata from ICPSR

Accessing ’s holdings: ’s interface…

MORE INTERFACE SHOTS?? EXPLANATION OF THE INTERFACE

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Researchers Nesstar Metadata Data ICPSR Archive Metadata Data CORA Nesstar Metadata Data … you have to search multiple locations Without the ‘search layer’…

Researchers Nesstar Metadata Data ICPSR Archive Metadata Data CORA Nesstar Metadata Data Metadata CORA Search Layer ICPSR Metadata With the ‘search layer’… You only have to search in one location…

Researchers Nesstar Metadata Data Metadata CORA Search Layer ICPSR Metadata ICPSR Archive Metadata Data CORA Nesstar Metadata Data External Archives

MORE SEARCHING & BROWSING INFO…

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Some concepts to cover: 1.Browsing to find a dataset 2.Metadata – data about data 3.Variables: in many categories… 4.Displaying frequencies 5.Generating a table 6.Applying sample weights 7.Adding variables to a table 8.Looking at the table in different ways 9.Subsetting 10.Exporting a table 11.Downloading a dataset 12. Searching for data by keywords

1.Researchers can search across all surveys in a collection. 2.Researchers have the ability to explore surveys in more detail (e.g. looking at questions by gender, province, age group, income, etc.). 3.Tables can be saved in Excel or Adobe format. 4.Researchers can download data for use in more powerful statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, etc.) Key points about survey data in

1.Provide a more level ‘data’ playing field for Ontario Universities. 2.Provide students and researchers with access to a substantial and growing body of survey and polling data, both current and historical. 3.Provide an easy, yet powerful, search and exploration tool (Nesstar) that will serve both beginners and ‘power users’. 4.Encourage cooperation and sharing of data and metadata in Ontario. 5.Serve as a potential model for other jurisdictions. In conclusion, ODESI will:

Contact An intuitive data portal for researchers, teachers and students; inspiring, developing and supporting research excellence. inspires, develops and supports research excellence in the academic environment. For more information contact Paula Hurtubise, Project or visit