The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science stores and manages electronic data that is particularly important and useful for researchers among academic research data in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The "Infrastructure Construction Program" was started in FY2018.
According to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the storage and management of electronic data in the fields of humanities and social sciences will establish a specialized base within the next five years, and the base and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science will collaborate in the field of survey data. Build a comprehensive foundation that can be shared and used across countries and countries.
As the first step in that work, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science commissioned Central Research Services, a specialized organization for opinion polls and market research, to start a survey of the current state of academic data.The survey is aimed at researchers at research institutes such as universities, and collects basic information such as the experience of conducting academic surveys in the fields of humanities and social sciences and how to save the conducted data. It is carried out by a survey method.
