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Modern information technology gives even young students access to tools & data resources that until recently were the exclusive privilege of a minority of university graduates. Focus here is on the concept of social science laboratories -- a teaching environment in which students are allowed to practice the role of social scientists through confrontation with concrete research material. Several ongoing projects & plans for future developments are discussed, & four laboratories based on comparative data for Europe are described. 2 Tables, 2 Illustrations. Adapted from the source document.

"Metadata, or data about data, play a crucial rule in social sciences to ensure that high quality documentation and community knowledge are properly captured and surround the data across its entire life cycle, from the early stages of production to secondary analysis by researchers or use by policy makers and other key stakeholders. The paper provides an overview of the social sciences metadata landscape, best practices and related information technologies. It particularly
focuses on two specifications - the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Standard (SDMX) - seen as central to a global metadata management framework for social data and official statistics. It also highlights current directions, outlines typical integration challenges, and provides a set of high level recommendations for producers, archives, researchers and sponsors in order to foster the adoption of metadata standards and best
practices in the years to come." [author's abstract]