Institute for Quantitative Social Science, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Science. 2011 Feb 11;331(6018):719-21. doi: 10.1126/science.1197872.
Massive increases in the availability of informative social science data are making dramatic progress possible in analyzing, understanding, and addressing many major societal problems. Yet the same forces pose severe challenges to the scientific infrastructure supporting data sharing, data management, informatics, statistical methodology, and research ethics and policy, and these are collectively holding back progress. I address these changes and challenges and suggest what can be done.
信息量庞大的社会科学数据的可用性不断增加,使得分析、理解和解决许多重大社会问题成为可能。然而,同样的力量也给支持数据共享、数据管理、信息学、统计方法以及研究伦理和政策的数据共享科学基础设施带来了严峻挑战,这些挑战共同阻碍了进展。我将探讨这些变化和挑战,并提出可行的解决方案。