TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lambert, Paul
AU  - Gayle, Vernon
AU  - Tan, Larry
AU  - Turner, Ken
AU  - SINNOTT, RICHARD
AU  - Prandy, Ken
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28826
AB  - Occupational information resources - data about the characteristics of different occupational positions - are widely used in the social sciences, across a range of disciplines and international contexts. They are available in many formats, most often constituting small electronic files that are made freely downloadable from academic web-pages. However there are several challenges associated with how occupational information resources are distributed to, and exploited by, social researchers. In this paper we describe features of occupational information resources, and indicate the role digital curation can play in exploiting them. We report upon the strategies used in the GEODE research project (Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment, http://www.geode.stir.ac.uk). This project attempts to develop long-term standards for the distribution of occupational information resources, by providing a standardized framework-based electronic depository for occupational information resources, and by providing a data indexing service, based on e-Science middleware, which collates occupational information resources and makes them readily accessible to non-specialist social scientists.
LA  - eng
PB  - UKOLN, University of Bath
KW  - Occupational data
KW  - occupational information resources
T1  - Data curation standards and social science occupational information resources
IS  - International Journal of Digital Curation
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 73-91
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/28826/264103_7214.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ER  -