1. 1 REMOTE ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REGISTER DATA / www.raird.no 1 RAIRD Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data - metadata aspects Ørnulf Risnes, Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) European Data Access Forum Luxembourg 24-25 March 2015

2. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Goal of RAIRD: Increase research on data from administrative registers Tax/ Income Civil Regist Statistics Norway’s Events DB National Education DB

3. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no RAIRD as a research platform Find data Extract data Process data Analyze data Remote data preparation and analysis

4. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Data- Store Statistics User Workspace Extract data

5. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Statistics User Workspace Process data (Prepare for analysis)

6. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Statistics User Workspace Analyze data

7. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Researcher cannot see data Metadata is the interface to data Metadata

8. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Each observation (datum) has a rich context 35 Time Period Source/ quality Cell-notes Unit type Sensitivity Value domain Visibility Conceptual domain Version

9. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Tracking the Datum-context throughout the system – The Datum Lifecycle RAIRD Data Store Statistics Norway Data Management Systems Metadata

10. Remote Access Infrastructure for Register Data / www.raird.no Closing the metadata gap