CESSDA Widening Activities 2018 Deliverable 5 – Gap Analysis of CESSDA Resources

After creating the CESSDA Resource Directory in the first part of the year, the project collected feedback from CESSDA partners – i.e. non-member Service Providers (SPs) – to provide a gap analysis of available resources within CESSDA and its SPs. The gap analysis was conducted during autumn with the partners. Overall, the respondents indicated overwhelming support for the Resource Directory, confirming that the tool is useful for the building of a data archive service (DAS) and thus should be improved and kept up-to-date in the future. Most of the partners’ questions and needs relate to the archiving activities and services of the DAS, followed by the technical infrastructure, staff capacity building, and the funding and advocating of the DAS. Partners’ needs are expressed more specifically in each respective section of the document. The results show that the Resource Directory offers useful information and is an appreciated tool for the partners, which could be improved with more guidance and practical information for DAS in all development phases (i.e. conception, establishment and improvement), examples from working archives and training, as well as a more user-friendly interface. Current resources are helpful in all categories, but more targeted resources should be developed. Among all the ideas suggested, we think that four resources are particularly crucial to develop: ● Data Archiving Expert Guide, where knowledge is systematised; ● Strategies and guidance for advocating for the needs of DAS for depositing primary data and using secondary data; ● Clear membership rules for CESSDA members; ● Help to implement locally and train staff to use the technical solution DataverseEU. The various answers, comments, and ideas should be used further to adapt and develop future widening activities; activities from the CESSDA training, technical, tools and services, and trust working groups; and the INFRADEV proposal (GUIDE project)

Work-Family Arrangement and Conflict: Do Individual Gender Role Attitudes and National Gender Culture Matter?

This article examines the relationship between couples' work-family arrangement and individuals' perceived work–family conflict (WFC), considering individuals’ attitudes towards gender roles and national gender culture in 37 countries (N = 15,114). Previous research has shown that WFC depends on work and family demands and has mostly accounted for absolute time spent in paid and domestic work. We hypothesize that WFC depends on couples' work-family arrangement in terms of time spent in paid, domestic and care work. We further expect that the relationship between couples' work-family arrangement and WFC depends on individuals' gender attitudes and national gender culture. To test these assumptions, we use the ISSP-2012 data and apply multilevel linear regression analyses. The findings indicate that an egalitarian work-family arrangement - that is, sharing paid, domestic and care work equally with one's partner - is associated with lower levels of WFC. Moreover, individuals with egalitarian gender attitudes and an egalitarian work-family arrangement experience less WFC than individuals with inconsistent attitudes and behaviours. Individuals with consistent traditional attitudes and behaviours experience the most conflict. Finally, a more egalitarian gender culture relates to less WFC. Cross-level interactions indicate that the relationship between work-family arrangement and WFC is not mediated by countries' gender culture

CESSDA Widening Activities 2018 Deliverable 1 – Resource Directory

Understanding the needs of both CESSDA service providers (SPs) and partners (i.e. future SPs) is essential for the success of CESSDA as a whole. Sustainable tools must be developed and made available for addressing these needs, as well as for facilitating and encouraging exchange between data archive services (DAS) at different maturity levels. The Resource Directory developed during the “CESSDA Widening Activities 2018” project is a tool that contributes to addressing partners’ and less mature CESSDA SPs’ needs. The aim of the Resource Directory is to help disseminate existing resources within CESSDA and its SPs – that either help building a DAS or developing new services and features within existing DAS – among CESSDA partners and less mature CESSDA SPs. This contributes to the ultimate objectives of widening activities, which are to help the partners in building sustainable and mature data services and achieving CESSDA membership. Furthermore, the Resource Directory contributes to increasing CESSDA visibility in non-member countries. The Resource Directory gathers resources together which are already available on different institutional websites. The resources are accessible via web links or DOIs; no resource is physically attached to the Directory. The Resource Directory is thus a central point of access to the resources that aid the building and development of mature DAS, and in achieving CESSDA membership. Information on relevant documents, trainings, tools and support services resulting from past and current CESSDA projects and activities at the SPs have been collected, selected and reviewed specifically for this purpose. The Resource Directory is therefore a curated inventory of these specific resources with aggregated listing of information. The Resource Directory contains currently 189 resources (version 1.2) that support the development of a DAS. A wide range of resources is available in the Directory. In order to guide the users within the Directory, specific labels, descriptions and metadata were applied to index and define the resources. The labels and metadata can be used to select specific resources for a user-friendly search, allowing easy and rapid access to the resources of interest. If a tool is already available, further developments of the Resource Directory are needed. The first one is to publish the Resource Directory online in a more user-friendly way and to make it available via the CESSDA website. Second, in order for the Resource Directory not to become obsolete, it needs maintenance. A proper maintenance means at the same time updating and completing its records to integrate the many resources available within CESSDA and its SPs, and enhancing the tool with, for example, an assessment of the quality of the resources (and not only the relevance)

D2 Strategy for the Development of the Mentorship Programme

After three rounds of the CESSDA Mentorship Programme and with experiences from twenty mentorships, it is time to evaluate the programme and see how it can be further developed. The overall conclusion is that the programme has fulfilled its purpose but could benefit from more flexibility. Experience shows that circumstances can change quickly, from delayed decisions on institutionalising to pandemics, which requires an ability to quickly adjust established plans and reallocate resources. It would also be an advantage for the programme to have a wider range of experts to choose from when appointing mentors. Until now, the programme has only been open to CESSDA partners and new members. It would benefit from being open to all CESSDA SPs, regardless of their level of maturity. More mature SPs who want to develop new services could then seek support from, and collaboration with, colleagues with more expertise in the field. The new concept of the Mentorship programme is intended to be an asset to CESSDA and all its member and partner SPs by facilitating the exchange of general and specialised expertise. To achieve that, the programme needs a solid foundation and sustainability of mentorship within CESSDA ERIC

Making metadata inclusive: content development in the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST)

Developing and updating thesaurus content in ELSST is crucial to ensure that it remains a current and relevant resource for data providers, distributors, archives and researchers. The process of content development is an ongoing, cross-national, collaborative enterprise undertaken by ELSST partners drawn from CESSDA’s Service Provider organisations. Together, we work to ensure that ELSST remains internationally recognisable and relevant. As a case study, this presentation will focus on a recent update to the ELSST concept hierarchy covering sexuality and gender, completed for the 2022 thesaurus release. It will cover the consultation and research process we undertook to ensure that the updated hierarchy was made as inclusive and comprehensive as possible. It will also describe how this experience has informed our practice for future updates to other potentially sensitive concept hierarchies. Making ELSST content inclusive not only reflects our duty to enable social justice by recognising diversity but also provides better and more precise keyword coverage for research resources. Consistent search results provided by ELSST’s comprehensive controlled vocabulary will allow researchers across the community to share and find useful data more easily, as social research evolves in a changing society

D1 CESSDA Resource Directory Policy and Development Strategy

2022 marked the fourth anniversary of the CESSDA Resource Directory (RD). Since 2018, the RD team members have gained experience and knowledge about the service and curation process and the RD has grown both in quantity and in quality. This deliverable thus answers a need to formalise the RD’s collection development policy and the curation process created and followed by the RD editors. It also suggests different developments for the RD and proposes a maintenance strategy to foster its sustainability

D6 Review of Zotero/Resource Directory as a Platform for the Tools Directory

This report delivers the results of the Subtask 3 of the CESSDA Agenda 21-24, Tasks 21-22, Cross Pillar Activities Task 1: CESSDA Resource Directory. Its main purpose is to review how fit the Zotero/Resource Directory is as a platform for the tools directory (TD), also taking into account outputs from other projects. In addition to the CESSDA Resource Directory (RD), five existing resource directory services were reviewed in order to discover similarities and differences between resources covered there and in the TD, to explore features that are available for management and discovery of these resources, and to assess if any of the existing services can be used for the needs of the tools directory. The results show that TD should be kept as a part of the RD because both have a similar purpose and the same audience, so this will enable the discovery of all relevant resources in one place. Also, in this way, there is no need to develop separate policies for tools; they can rather be included in general RD policies, as is now the case. The new CESSDA Web platform can potentially offer some or all desirable features for the tools directory

Guide for National Planning for Setting Up New Data Services

This guide aims to assist interested actors or country teams in developing plans for establishing national data services in the social sciences. The guide helps country teams to include in their plans a mission statement, a governance structure, a description of areas of competence and infrastructure that need to be strengthened, as well as a description of future needs and necessary resources for setting up and maintaining viable data services

Einstellungen zur Geschlechtergleichstellung in der Schweiz, 2000-2017

In diesem Artikel werden die Trends von Einstellungen zur Geschlechtergleichstellung in der Schweiz zwischen 2000 und 2017 analysiert. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass die Einstellungen zu den sozialen Rollen von Frauen immer egalitärer werden, während die Einstellungen zur Erreichung der Gleichstellung stabil bleiben. Es herrscht zwar Konsens über die Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen, aber unsere Ergebnisse weisen auf das Fortbestehen einer traditionellen Auffassung der Mutterrolle hin. Des Weiteren zeigt sich ein Generationenunterschied in der Wahrnehmung der Erreichung der Geschlechtergleichstellung: Jüngere Menschen vertreten eher die Meinung, dass Frauen in der Schweiz nicht mehr diskriminiert werden, und befürworten weniger Massnahmen zur Frauenförderung. unserer Zudem zeigt sich, dass Frauen, die in den Arbeitsmarkt eintreten, egalitäre Einstellungen zur Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen und Müttern entwickeln, während aus dem Arbeitsmarkt ausscheidende Frauen traditionellere Einstellungen übernehmen