Social science data archives in Eastern Europe

This book is the outcome of the workshop on social science data archives in Eastern Europe that took place in Berlin from 22-24th February 2002. The workshop was supported by the UNESCO`s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST) and the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS)/Central Archive Cologne. Despite the large-scale development of electronic communications in all scientific fields, experiences show that face-to-face communication remains essential, particularly in developing co-operation and networks. Therefore the GESIS Branch Office Berlin organized a workshop, that schould serve as a forum both to exchange experiences of how to establish a data archive and to evaluate the potential for the establishment of data archives in Eastern European countries without a developed data infrastructure. The reports on data archiving in 13 Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary) are presented in this volume and the creation of the East European Data Archive Network is described.