Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland

Project Overview

The Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland is led by the University of Edinburgh, and brings together major Scottish research centres, including:
    the Scottish Longitudinal Study
  • Administrative Data Liaison Service
  • Applied Quantitative Methods Network
  • the Farr Institute @ Scotland
  • the national digital data centre
  • Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health
  • the Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology

The centre involves world leading experts in the theory, methods and policy of linking records for secondary uses, including:

  • public engagement, ethics, information governance and law
  • linking and analysing large datasets
  • geocoding, natural language processing and machine learning
  • crime and criminal justice, education and social services

SWeL Contributions

The Semantic Web Lab contributes to:

  • Work Package 4: Dealing with Uncertainty in Automated Linkage.
    This work package will explore whether techniques and methodologies being developed in related fields (databases, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, bibliographic linking) can be applied to the specific problems that arise out of the linkage of administrative records for social science research.
  • Work Package 12: Training for ADRC-S participants