1. Social Research Methodology and Supplementary Documentation John Kallas University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology

2. Documentation Open access depends on documentation
Documentation is realized by two different documentation procedures
the procedure of document production
the procedure of document integration in a documentation system.
Document production is the work of data producers
Social research products are different types of documents (Text documents, metadata documents, data documents etc)
In every research a number of documents is produced
Document integration is the work of data providers
To understand documentation as a document integration procedure an infrastructure is needed

3. The General Research Procedure
The survey
The transformation of an individual’s abstract internal mental representation of social phenomena into formalized information;
The choice of descriptive variables used to characterize each of the individuals of the population examined;
The choice of individuals who constitute the population examined
The coding or recoding of the initial data characterizing each individual by the descriptive variables
The analysis
The methods of analysis employed to treat and to transform the data in order to furnish formal and often statistical results;
The final transformation by the researcher of formal mathematical results into the final results that are presented in a public discourse or in a scientific text

4. The one phase methodological paradigm
The survey and the analysis are elements of the same research procedure
The survey and the analysis share a common design
The survey and the analysis are realized by the same research team

5. Research product life cycle under the one phase methodological paradigm

6. Research product life cycle supported by infrastructure

7. The two phase methodological paradigm
The survey and the analysis are elements of two different research procedures
The survey and the analysis don’t always share a common design
The survey and the analysis are realized by different research teams
Both Documentation procedures are realized by different research team
Document production also depends on infrastructures

8. The general research procedure under the two phase paradigm

9. The General Research Procedure
The Primary Production
Design
Data collection
The Secondary Production
Redesign
Dataset Integration
Analysis
Result presentation
The Database System
Archiving
Data dissemination
Data and metadata retrieval

10. Research product life cycle under the two phase methodological paradigm

11. Changes in Data Production
Data production in the context of a study
Data modeling is based on the statistical ontology
Units of observation are elements of a subject matter schema designed in the context of the study
Data production in the context of a subject matter field
Data modeling is based on the statistical ontology and on a subject matter ontology
Units of observation are elements of a subject matter ontology
A subject matter ontology is not designed in the context of a specific study

12. Supplementary Documentation
References and Citations
A document refers to one or more existing studies
A document is referenced by one or more existing studies
Variable and Object of observation standardization
A data element (a variable, or an object of observation) is referenced by one or more existing studies
Build subject matter ontologies independent from a specific research project
Use Data as Metadata (context data)
Focus on differences as well as on similarities
Supplementary documentation depends on infrastructures

13. The conceptual metadata model
Data production is based on conceptual metadata model
It is distributed in a number of independed research teams using a Grid of Research Infrastructures
The Metadata model is
The metadata model
Models the semantics of an empirical research
Models the semantics of a subject matter field and this is independent from the functionality of any application
Models the administrational parameters which depends on the functionality of the applications
Models the classification systems accepted by a community

14. Conclusions
Metadata are produced in all the different steps of the lifecycle.
In many cases metadata are part of the infrastructure and are used as tools for production
Infrastructure development must be based on a conceptual data model.
Research methodology affects the development of infrastructure