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While 0yen's discussion focuses on Norwegian developments, the reader will

be able to draw parallels to his or her own national situation. 0yen's final

caveat,

"It would seem unfortunate if the increasinn need for social science

research in the policy field, and the exoansion of public support and

political control of social science developments, were to be linked to

efforts to tie the hands of researchers through the introduction of

rules which might give the social sciences a serious setback. In fact,
such a development might be threatening another integrity requirement,
namely, the right to understand."

0yen's review is an incisive look at the consequences of privacy protection
legislation created without consideration of social science needs. It is a so-
phisticated analysis of issues which will continue to command the attention of
researchers and data archivists in the next decade. Recommended as essential
reading--an insightful introduction to the problems of privacy protection for the
social scientist and by extension, the data archivist.

REPORT ON THE COMMITTEE OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA
ARCHIVES, JANUARY 22, 1977

Meeting of the Committee of European Social Science Data Archives, 22 January 1977

The Committee of European Social Science Archives was established at a

I meeting in Amsterdam in June 1976 and held its second meeting in Paris on 22

January 1977. The meeting was attended by representatives of the seven member
organizations: the ADPSS-Milan, the BASS-Louvain-la-Fleuve, the DDA-Cooenhagen,
the NSD-Bergen, the SSRC-SA-Essex, the SA-Amsterdam and the ZA-Cologne. The
meeting agreed to organize one conference a year and to encourage the establish-
ment of a number of time-limited European Working Parties of 3-^ data organiza-
tions each. ZA-Coloqne, offered to host the 1978 meeting: this will focus on

Privacy Legislation .

The Committee also instructed BASS to invite established, puhlic-service
data organizations (archives and broader data services offering access for a

range of universities, centres) all across the world to take part in the con-
stituent meeting of an International Federation of Data Organizations. This
meeting is scheduled for 21-22 Hay at Louvain-la-fleuve.

The new body would be based exclusively on organizational membership and
would commit its members to support concrete projects of co-operation. The
Federation will, if established, serve to bring data archives, data services
and data centres together as institutions and would offer a parallel structure
to the individually-based lASSIST. There was full agreement that the two bodies
should complement each other and help each other through joint activities.
There was also agreement that the Statutes of IF-DO should give full recognition
to IASSIST and commit the Federation to close co-oneration with the Association.

For further information please write to Philippe Laurent at BASS.

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