Johannes Breuer first discussed the definition and relevance of social media data in the social sciences, followed by three ways on how to collect such data (own data collection, cooperation with social media companies, purchase). The second part of the presentation focused on how and why to link...

In this video, Johannes Breuer discusses what data linking is and why it is useful to link survey and social media data.

In this video, Serafeim Alvanides discusses geographical data and how social scientists can map them.

In this video, Jonas Recker discusses the concept of the “Designated Community” from the OAIS Reference Model.

Serafeim Alvanides organized a challenging hands-on workshop with QGIS, an open-source geographic information system software – guiding all participants through the process of installing the software, finding, downloading and linking suitable geodata and producing visualizations for basic spacial...

Dr. Kristi Winters (GESIS) and Janek Bruker (formerly of GESIS) discuss social science harmonization examples from large international survey programs. This is video 2 in a series of 4 videos designed to provide introductory information on variable harmonization. Topics covered include an introdu...