{"id":4886,"date":"2017-03-07T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:34:33","slug":"first-results-out-for-synergies-for-europes-research-infrastructures-in-the-social-sciences-seriss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/03\/07\/first-results-out-for-synergies-for-europes-research-infrastructures-in-the-social-sciences-seriss\/","title":{"rendered":"First results out for &#8216;Synergies for Europe\u2019s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences&#8217; (SERISS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for cross posting, may be of interest to some:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/seriss.eu\/resources\/deliverables\/\">first results<\/a> of a project to support the European Union (EU) tackle socio-economic challenges across Europe are now available.<\/p>\n<p>Synergies for Europe\u2019s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (<a href=\"http:\/\/seriss.eu\/\">SERISS<\/a>) is a four-year project (2015-2019) funded as\u00a0part of the\u00a0EU&#8217;s Horizon 2020 programme.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe by fostering collaboration and developing shared standards between the three leading European research infrastructures in the social sciences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>European Social Survey (ESS ERIC)<\/li>\n<li>Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC)<\/li>\n<li>Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA AS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and organisations representing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generations and Gender Programme (GGP)<\/li>\n<li>European Values Study (EVS)<\/li>\n<li>WageIndicator Survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukdataservice.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-rd\/seriss\">SERISS<\/a>\u00a0project is focus<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">s<\/span>ing on three key areas:\u00a0 addressing key challenges for cross-national data collection, breaking down barriers between social science infrastructures, and embracing the future of the social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0UK Data Service has authored a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seriss.eu\/_wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SERISS_Deliverable_3.9-Report-on-findings-from-re-translation-of-ELSST-terms-and-their-use-in-the-CESSDA-Portal.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0describes two methods that were used to assess the translation quality of the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST): back-translation and the comparison of terms used to index the same set of cross-national surveys using ELSST. Read more in our blog post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elsst.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/14\/first-results-of-seriss-project\/\">&#8216;First results of SERISS project&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background to ELSST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elsst.ukdataservice.ac.uk\/\">ELSST<\/a>\u00a0is used for searching the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archive<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">\u2019<\/span>s (CESSDA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cessda.net\/CESSDA-Services\/Resources\/Data-Catalogue\">data catalogue<\/a>\u00a0and facilitates access to research and data resources across Europe, independent of domain, resource, language or vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>The thesaurus covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and increasingly, environmental science.<\/p>\n<p>ELSST is available in 12 languages: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish, with more planned, and is currently being developed as part of the ESRC-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukdataservice.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-rd\/cessda-elsst\">CESSDA-ELSST project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updates on the progress of the CESSDA-ELSST project are available via our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elsst.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/14\/first-results-of-seriss-project\/\">ELSST blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for cross posting, may be of interest to some: &nbsp; The first results of a project to support the European Union (EU) tackle socio-economic challenges across Europe are now available. Synergies for Europe\u2019s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) is a four-year project (2015-2019) funded as\u00a0part of the\u00a0EU&#8217;s Horizon 2020 programme. 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