Background: The National Cohort (Nationale Kohorte = NaKo ) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and...

This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both quantitative and qualitative social science research. The...

"Es ist alles verboten, was nicht ausdrücklich erlaubt ist", so das sehr verkürzte Resümee der datenschutzrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen beim Umgang mit qualitativen Daten in Deutschland. Grundlegend können die derzeit gegebenen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingen zunächst für die Nutzung...

Organizational data describe central characteristics of organizations, their internal structures and processes as well as their behavior as corporate actors in different social and economic contexts. Firm and enterprise data are the most frequently used type of organizational data, but there is...

One of the fundamental insights gained by the social and economic sciences is that empirically founded statements on the conditions and consequences of individual behavior or of social and economic change can only be formulated on the basis of longitudinal microdata. The observation of...

Die Forschung in den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften ist immer öfter auf einen abgesicherten Zugang zu Forschungsdaten angewiesen, da ansonsten die Anforderungen des Datenschutzes nicht erfüllt werden können. Remote-Access-Lösungen bieten hier einen komfortablen Datenzugang und...

Menschen zählen aus dem All? Kann das denn möglich sein? Die Antwort lautet ja, allerdings ist diese Zählung nur in urbanen Räumen und nur auf indirekte Weise möglich. Aufgrund der indirekten Messung wird freilich gleichzeitig der Datenschutz perfekt gewahrt. Die hier dargestellte Methode...

The FAIR principles formulate guidelines for the sustainable reusability of research data. FAIR stands for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability of data and metadata. While there is a growing body of general implementation guidelines, so far there is a lack of specific...

Is it possible to count the earth's population from outer space? The answer is yes, in urban areas it is possible. However, this can only be done in an indirect manner: by identifying physical objects in the urban landscape in earth observation data and using these to estimate the number of...