Which allows us to distribute access
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:37 am
The primary goal of the UK Data Service is to ensure that the high quality data which researchers need in order to do research is got to them as speedily as possible. We have to pre-empt user demand by selecting and acquiring data rapidly; we have to process and document data in order for users to find it and use it, and ensure it can be reused into the future. And we have to make sure that the right access conditions are set up and met, so the right access mechanisms can be used.
About ten years ago the UK Data Archive set up the Secure Data Service which has become the UK Data Service’s Secure Lab – rather than just distribute data. Stepping over the ‘secure’ hurdle australia rcs data coincided roughly with the starting bell for the data revolution. This shift in thinking towards distributing access needs to be carried forward in the new order. In our private lives we have the opportunity of doing just about everything in the ‘cloud’, why do we rigidly stick to the old paradigm of letting people download data to work on their own computers? (I’ll return to answer that question in due course…)
Some further context: the remarks which I’m making here are not based on any empirical research, almost everything I say is based on my recent experiences at work, and in particular observations from a number of groups or committees I’ve been on in the last year or so. And I want to note that these activities have involved me with government officials, ethics researchers, research funders from across the globe, data service staff, technologists, statisticians, commercial data users and privacy activists.
About ten years ago the UK Data Archive set up the Secure Data Service which has become the UK Data Service’s Secure Lab – rather than just distribute data. Stepping over the ‘secure’ hurdle australia rcs data coincided roughly with the starting bell for the data revolution. This shift in thinking towards distributing access needs to be carried forward in the new order. In our private lives we have the opportunity of doing just about everything in the ‘cloud’, why do we rigidly stick to the old paradigm of letting people download data to work on their own computers? (I’ll return to answer that question in due course…)
Some further context: the remarks which I’m making here are not based on any empirical research, almost everything I say is based on my recent experiences at work, and in particular observations from a number of groups or committees I’ve been on in the last year or so. And I want to note that these activities have involved me with government officials, ethics researchers, research funders from across the globe, data service staff, technologists, statisticians, commercial data users and privacy activists.