Developing networked documentation services in social sciences

The International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation collects, keeps up-to-date and disseminates information on documentation services in the social sciences, including the compilation of current bibliographies and directories. It studies appropriate steps for ensuring the systematic development of such documentary instruments, advises social science bodies on questions relating to bibliography and documentation and draws up technical rules likely to improve the management of social science information, documents and databases.

The committee Social Sciences Information and Documentation FID/EI) of the International Federation for Information and Documentation is concerned with the advancement and promotion of all information and documentation services in the social sciences.

1. Using information technology in humanities
2. Strengthening cooperation in the social sciences
3. Serving as information clearinghouse
4. Providing research services
5. Expanding scientific information networks
6. Developing information network
7. Conveying sociological sciences

1. Undertaking social surveys
2. Systematizing occupational data coordination
3. Strengthening research cooperation and exchange of information on demographic change
4. Mapping social data
5. Listing important town data
6. Increasing computer-based retrieval systems to cope with growth of scientific literature
7. Establishing human resource banks
8. Documenting population trends
9. Coordinating standardization of social data
10. Compiling socio-economic statistics

1. Teaching social methodologies
2. Screening third world documentary films
3. Regulating resources use
4. Managing human resources
5. Issuing social science information
6. Improving data and information to combat poverty
7. Forming world-wide social change coalitions
8. Expanding community data network
9. Exchanging scientific knowledge
10. Documenting human development
11. Centralizing neighbourhood data flow

1. Strengthening institutional development of the social and human sciences
2. Preserving documentary heritage
3. Gathering resource data
4. Collecting statistics

1. Connecting providers of human services

1. Unsociable
2. Rights
3. Misinformation
4. Inhumanity
5. Information
6. Disinformation
7. Deformation

1. Institute of Social Sciences
2. Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
3. Research Centers
4. Network Analysis in the Social Sciences
5. The Social Science Centre, Lincoln
6. Network Science and Social Media
7. The Social Science Research Council