Data resource construction: open data, grantmaking data, and the organisational and financial base of the third sector.

该项目的目的是提供在英国的第三部门组织的当代人口的综合数据。我们将创建一个可访问且强大的数据资源，帮助慈善机构、第三部门基础设施机构、资助者和政策制定者更全面地了解该部门。实际上，这个数据资源将准确地映射出第三部门的全部成员。然后，我们将利用越来越多的关于向志愿组织提供资助和公共采购的数据来建立资源，使研究人员能够更好地了解第三部门组织的资助组合。我们创造的资源将帮助第三部门组织和政策制定者，因为这将提高他们对环境的理解，特别是融资机会和潜在的竞争对手或合作者。这意味着他们将能够更好地支持他们的受益者，例如，通过针对他们的服务或与类似组织合作。这些数据将为越来越多的开放数据倡议提供“脊梁骨”，以应对该行业面临的管理和研究挑战。这种新的数据基础设施将为现有的英国社会科学基础设施增加新的价值，并将能够被学术和非学术研究人员（如在政府工作的人员）重用。这些数据还将帮助英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics）改善在国民经济核算中对非营利组织的覆盖（见支持函）。这与社研会的策略重点，例如“充满活力和公平的社会”，是一致的，因为它大大提高了对第三部门机构资源的认识。该项目将：基于TSRC/NCVO现有的数据库，结合慈善机构的登记册和公司注册处的公司登记册，我们将：对数据集中的组织进行分类-我们将开发和发布一种对现有组织进行分类的方法（我们对许多非营利组织的分类仍然存在相当大的差距，但也不是慈善组织）和新注册的组织。这将使用户能够为行业的特定子集或在特定领域运营的组织选择数据。-开发一个可以托管和访问这些数据的网站，并能够生成特定组织的列表。将数据与其他数据源相匹配-开发并发布一种方法和工具，用于根据组织的名称和任何其他信息将组织列表与这些数据库相匹配。这将使将其他组织列表汇集在一起变得容易。-与资助机构公布的受助人名单相符。这些名单的主要来源将是“360捐赠”计划，该计划鼓励资助者公开他们资助的人的数据，但我们将与其他主要资助者合作。公开的数据已经包括了向志愿组织颁发的数十万个奖项。我们还将与资助者合作，帮助他们安全地查看更详细的数据——包括关于资助申请的数据，从而首次使对这些数据的分析成为可能。——与政府特别是地方政府支出清单相匹配。这些名单通常有几十万笔交易，每一个从政府部门或当局那里接受资金的组织都有一个条目。由于这项工作所涉及的挑战——英格兰有400多个地方当局，信息质量参差不齐——我们将在选定的地区试点这项工作。该项目代表了一个强大的学术研究中心TSRC和一个备受瞩目的国家志愿组织NCVO之间的合作伙伴关系的一个很好的例子，在NCVO中，研究的设计和开发都同样考虑到用户和学术界的需求。

The aim of this project is to provide comprehensive data on the contemporary population of third sector organisations in the UK. We will create one accessible & robust data resource that will help charities, third sector infrastructure bodies, funders & policymakers develop a fuller understanding of the sector. In effect this data resource will accurately map the full membership of the third sector. We will then use the growing body of data being made available on grantmaking to voluntary organisations, and on public procurement, to build resources which will allow researchers to improve understanding of the funding mix of third sector organisations.The resources we create will help third sector organisations and policy makers because it will improve their understanding of their environment, particularly funding opportunities & also potential competitors or collaborators. This means they will be able to better support their beneficiaries by, for example, targeting their services or co-operating with similar organisations.The data will meet administrative & research challenges facing the sector by providing a "spine" for the growing number of open data initiatives. This new data infrastructure will add new value to existing UK social science infrastructure, and will be able to be reused by academic and non-academic researchers (such as those working in government). This data will also help the Office for National Statistics as they work to improve coverage of non-profit organisations in the National Accounts (see letters of support). It is consistent with ESRC's strategic priorities such as a "Vibrant and fair society", in that it significantly enhances understanding of the resources of third sector organisations.The project will:Building on TSRC/NCVO's existing databases, generated by combining registers of charities and the Companies House register of companies, we will:Classify organisations in the dataset- We will develop & publish a method for classifying existing organisations (there remain considerable gaps in our classification of the many organisations that are nonprofit but which are also not charitable) & new organisations that come onto the register. This will enable users to select data for particular subsets of the sector, or for organisations operating in particular areas.- Develop a website where this data can be hosted & accessed, with the ability to generate a list of specific organisations.Match the data with other data sources- Develop & publish a method & tools for matching a list of organisations to these databases, based on their name and any other information. This will make it easy to bring together other lists of organisations.- Matching with lists of grant recipients published by grant makers. The main source of these lists will be the "360 Giving" initiative which is encouraging grantmakers to open up data about who they fund but we will work with other major funders. Published data already includes several hundred thousand awards made to voluntary organisations. We will also work with grantmakers to help them securely look at more detailed data - including data on applications for funding, making analyses of these possible for the first time.- Matching with lists of government spending, particularly local government. These lists, often running to several hundred thousand transactions, contain an entry for every organisation that has received money from government departments or authorities. Because of the challenges involved in this - there are over 400 local authorities in England, with much variation in the quality of information - we will pilot this work in a selected region.The project represents an excellent example of a partnership between a strong academic research centre, TSRC, and a high-profile national voluntary organisation, NCVO, in which research is designed and developed with the needs of user and academic communities equally in mind.