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D5: Terms of Reference for CESSDA Data Catalogue
The CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) allows the research community to search and browse metadata on social science research data across countries and languages. For this, CESSDA has developed a search a...
D1: Content report: Notes for the ELSST release of 16 June 2020
The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences, managed by a cross-national team within the CESSDA Metadata Office (MDO) pro...
Using data for effective health service evaluation: why we need data stewards
Richard Welpton explores what makes a good data steward and how his experience working at the UK Data Service prepared him to undertake this role successfully.
Assigning the appropriate level of protection to longitudinal survey data
Louise Corti explores the challenges of ensuring longitudinal survey data is classified appropriately for safe, non-disclosive access.
Open Data Manchester’s Declaration for responsible and intelligent data practice
The UK Data Service welcomes Open Data Manchester’s Declaration for responsible and intelligent data practice.
The sum and its parts: The benefits of combining data from different surveys
Post 1 in the series “Adventures in ex-post harmonization” Ex-post harmonization – combining data from different surveys – requires quite some effort. In this post, we explore the many reasons why...