changing the Data Sharing Culture in the eastern European countries

1. changing the Data Sharing Culture in the eastern European countries to share or not to share Brigitte Hausstein Berlin, Germany

2. source of information: cessda ppp/WP7 identified constraints roots of data sharing culture overcoming the barriers / cessda ERI

3. cessda ppp (2008-2009): WP7 Widening Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine countries: information collection: • workshop (July 2008) • country reports (May 2008) • onsite meetings with data archives and funders (November 2008 and March 2009)

4. Identified constraints • ownership of data: tendency of privatisation of data • competition (for funding) and distrust among researchers • fear of exploitations and misuse • missing willingness (time and effort) • low motivation (lack of career rewards for data sharing) • lack of documentation of data, quality of meta data • shortage of expertise and resources in data management • data produced not for wider use (intension of the research project) • missing capacities (including financial) and knowledge • lack of an appropriate archive service (missing infrastructure) • missing awareness of funders and lack of policy initiatives

5. Roots of data sharing culture: research traditions • handling of information and data controlled by state and party • no sharing of any kind of information, no free flow of information • collaboration between researchers top-down (state and party) • no international projects • technical hindrances, level of technology • small knowledge and experiences in data- related issues • selective access to raw data, no data archives before 1990 • institutional reorganisations /no infrastructure • dramatic shortcuts of funding for social science research • project oriented research dominating, long-term funding rare • data as goods privatisation of data, selling data to the west, generating extra income • involvement in comparative projects selective • mistrust and competition among researchers early 1990s

6. / Overcoming the barriers • data producing projects for wider data use • granting applications including a budget to cover data management • relationship between research and service activities • act as an agent/facilitator for data sharing • promoting the benefits and the value to users and funders • involvement in data gathering research projects • providing expert support for researchers (meta data production, tools, access conditions and control) researchers data archives

7. // Overcoming the barriers research funders • development and implementation of a national data sharing policy (including control mechanism) • up-front role in requiring deposition of data • funding of long-term data producing research projects • long-term funding for infrastructure services • require their authors to provide links to the data sets upon which their articles are based • support a linking system between data and all publications that exist for the data publishers

8. /// Overcoming the barriers • common policy to stimulate data sharing and permanent access to research data • strategic decisions and agreements on European level • unified data preservation policies • development of an accreditation system • support of national data archives and agreements on harmonised actions • making data sets citable including citation standards • making the publication of data as valued as a paper publication • offering training facilities, tools, standards and best practice ERI

9. To sum up: / psychological and research-traditional barriers • researchers • research funders • publishers • national data archives • cessda ERI /// fundingsystem and financial resources // lack of knowledge and expertise data sharing • //// lack of an appropriate archive service • (missing infrastructure)

10. Yes, we share!