Social sciences for a digital world : building infrastructure and databases for the future.

"This report brings together a selection of the contributions presented at the workshop ... entitled 'Social Sciences for a Digital World: Building Infrastructure for the Future', co-organised by the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and the OECD ... in Ottawa on 6-8 October 1999"--P. 3.

The challenge of building infrastructure in the social sciences : opening remarks / Marc Renaud -- chapter 1. Social sciences for a digital world : buildinginfrastructure for the future / David Moorman -- chapter 2. Reniventing the social sciences : setting the stage / Luk van Langenhove -- chapter 3. Social sciences databases in OECD countries : an overview / Jun Oba -- chapter 4. Planning large-scale infrastructure : longitudinal databases / Gaston Schaber -- chapter 5. Sharing and preserving data for the social sciences / Denise Lievesley -- chapter 6. New technologies for the social sciences / William Sims Bainbridge -- chapter 7. Final report of the Joint Working Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Statistics Canada on the advancement of research using social statistics / Paul Bernard and others -- chapter 8. New horizons for the social sciences : geographic information systems / Michael F. Goodchild -- New horizons for qualitative data / Paul Thompson -- List of participants.