The volume “Longitudinal Data Infrastructures in Europe” is published and available free of charge
The volume “Longitudinal Data Infrastructures in Europe. Tools for Open Science in Social Science Research”, edited by Luciana Taddei and Mario Paolucci, has just been published by Springer.
The volume, available for free download, explores the opportunities that research infrastructures and panels open to the social sciences in the direction of open science.
This is not a technical manual, but rather an accessible guide to social science infrastructures, how they work, and why they are essential for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Through stories, examples, and reflections, it emerges how infrastructures are not just technological tools, but living ecosystems that nourish ideas, connect people, and enhance the work of everyone. Divided into 12 chapters, the book is aimed at students, teachers, research staff, decision-makers, and anyone who wants to gain insights into the future of knowledge in the social sciences.
The many contributions by CNR-IRPPS research staff provide theoretical and methodological insights related to the experiences gained in the development of the DASSI and FOSSR infrastructures and the GUIDE, GGS, and IOPP panels.
Table of Contents
- Open Science and the Role of Social Sciences Research Infrastructures and Data (Francesca Di Donato)
- Secondary, Longitudinal, and Panel Data in Social Science Research (Ilaria Primerano, Nicolò Marchesini, Francesco Santelli, Luciana Taddei, Loredana Cerbara)
- Open Cloud Platform (Mario Ciampi, Emanuele Damiano, Giovanni Massafra, Pier Giuseppe Meo, Mario Sicuranza)
- Ethical Implications in Building Longitudinal Data Infrastructures (Loredana Cerbara, Dario Germani, Michele Santurro)
- The Rise of Social Science Infrastructures in Europe and Italy (Luciana Taddei, Mario Paolucci)
- SHARE-ERIC: A European Infrastructure for Research on Ageing and Retirement (Agar Brugiavini, Stefano Castaldo, Guglielmo Weber, Nancy Zambon)
- The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and the Data Archive for Social Sciences in Italy (DASSI) (Filippo Accordino, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Daniela Luzi, Carlo Pisano, Domingo Scisci)
- Retirement, Health, and Digital Gaps: Studying European Ageing with SHARE (Chiara Dal Bianco, Guglielmo Weber, Nancy Zambon)
- GUIDE: Innovations and Challenges to Survey Child Well-Being in Italy (Emilio Maria Colella, Giulio Ecchia, Dario Germani, Ilaria Primerano, Michele Santurro, Francesca Tosi et al.)
- GGS: Generations and Gender Survey (Letizia Mercarini, Nicolò Cavalli, Elena Marseglia, Matilde Perotti, Ilaria Primerano, Michele Santurro et al.)
- The Italian Way to an Online Probability Panel (Luciana Taddei, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Frank Heins, Nicolò Marchesini, Angela Paparusso, Claudia Pennacchiotti et al.)
- Synthetic Populations in Research Infrastructures (Rocco Paolillo, Nicholas Roxburgh, Alice Sbrana, Gary Polhill, Evelina Carmen Sabatella, Mario Paolucci)
