Archiving Quantitative and Qualitative Data

One long term goal of WISERD is to provide an archive of social and economic quantitative and qualitative datasets relating to Wales.  Principally these will be made up of the data collected as part of the WISERD programme of activities, but could feasibly also include other datasets that WISERD have been given access.

Long term data archiving is an increasingly important part of funding councils’ remit and WISERD is working with the UK Data Archive (UKDA), the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and the ESRC funded Timescapes project in developing archiving standards and tools that will be incorporated into the geo-portal and the meta-database.