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7.5. Social and Cultural Innovation

Although the area of social sciences and humanities is rather fragmented, from the perspective of research infrastructure
demand it looks quite uniform. Almost all fields of sciences are mainly concerned with collecting, analysing and evaluating
data for scientific or policy decision-making. These tasks require the creation and operation of a database which is as com-
plete as possible. Thus, in this domain, primarily those facilities are considered research infrastructures which enable the
establishment, digitisation and classification of the desired data, the setup of databases, and ensure access to and analysis
of such data later on.

Almost all areas of social sciences (economics, political science, sociology) generate standardised empirical data by pro-
cessing large samples, which often serve as the basis for governmental decision-making. Building up, publishing and
analysing archives are among the activities that present the highest infrastructural demand. Extracting information from
text and voice archives is also a new challenge, which is addressed using linguistic and information-based technologies.
The development of language and speech technologies is highly facilitated by the rapid evolution of information technology
devices.

Research infrastructure groups are presented in the domains where Hungary has a strong domestic researcher community
whose members actively contribute to the surveys of large international networks on social sciences, health, aging and
common language resources.

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