DATAFIRST & DATA CURATION 1 st African Digital Curation Conference CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, South Africa Lynn Woolfrey

SURVEY DATA ARCHIVES AND DATA CURATION

A SURVEY DATA ARCHIVE

PART OF A SURVEY DATA ARCHIVE NETWORK

DATAFIRST Ethiopian Survey Data Archive ONE OF THREE DATA ARCHIVES IN AFRICA

SHARING SURVEY DATA FUNCTION  Advances Research  Informs Policymaking PURPOSE  Utilising curation best practices for archiving and disseminating social survey data ensures economic and accurate usage of this data for the above purposes

CURATING SURVEY DATA INVOLVES:  Archiving Survey Data  Sharing Survey Data  Training uses in basic Data Analysis  Promoting Data Quality

THE DATA CURATION PROCESS AT DATAFIRST (Based on Vardigan & Whiteman, 2007:75-78) Original Dataset Descriptive Information Structural and Semantic Descriptive Information Structural and Semantic Archived Dataset Disseminated Dataset Dissemination Accession Data Management Archival Storage Data Consumers Data Producers

 Annual survey analysis course in January - run in collaboration with the University of Michigan  Ongoing training at DataFirst with the assistance of student interns  Online training – the DataFirst webcourse TRAINING AT DATAFIRST

To Maximise the Value of Public Investment in Data Collection – We Need Survey Info that is:  Publicly Available  High Quality  Accurate  Easy to Access  Easy to Use DATAFIRST AND DATA QUALITY

Data Creators Statistics SA HSRC Data Creators Statistics SA HSRC Data Re-Users Academics Policymakers Data Re-Users Academics Policymakers Data Curators DataFirst SADA Data Curators DataFirst SADA INTERMEDIARY ROLE TO ENSURE DATA QUALITY

DATAFIRST’S WIKI

THANK YOU DATAFIRST University of Cape Town