RISC Data Portal

The Research Data Center is a central office of the RISC, which is located at the University of Bremen. The RDC-RISC is advised by the internal steering Data Committee, has been provisionally accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) and is a member of the standing committee Research Data Infrastructure (FDI Committee). The central task of the Research Data Center is the development of a data infrastructure for the analysis of social cohesion, which is reflected in the following functions:

Data Production and Data Management

• Coordination of the longitudinal study German Social Cohesion Panel
• Advice for RISC projects collecting data
• Archiving of all quantitative RISC data
• Cooperation with Qualiservice for archiving qualitative RISC data
• Development of a data management concept

Monitoring

• Development of an indicator system for recording social cohesion
• Data analysis and regular reporting

Data Portal

• Documentation of all data collected in the RDC-RISC (RISC metadata database)
• Dissemination of the quantitative data collected in the RDC-RISC
• Provision of central indicators of social cohesion
• Documentation of all scientific publications pre-published with RISC data (RISCdatalit)