It becomes apparent that social sciences
data professionals are still performing
traditional primary services in the stages
of data discovery, data collection, and
data analysis.45 At the same time, support
for data preservation as a relatively new task of research data services has already
been taken up by the profession quickly,
probably due to the professional spirit of
performing data stewardship. Although
data management planning has not been
the most needed support area, in comparison
with other data life stages, we
have observed an increasing emphasis
of it in the recent years. The reason that
data sharing is the least mentioned support
area could be because it is actually
implied in data preservation and archive
services and thus not counted separately