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NSD offers a tool for creating a data management plan. It is a functional tool for writing and updating a DMP dynamically. The resulting DMP is stored and is avialable via login at NSD, and can be downloaded. Further functionalities will be added (e.g. the possibility to share the DMP with other...

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts...

Kuha is a lightweight OAI-PMH Data Provider implementation. It provides a good starting point for developing your own OAI-PMH server. !! Warning !! Kuha is no longer in development because of Kuha2. Kuha will be closed October 28, 2021.

Kuha2 is a metadata server that provides descriptive social science research metadata for harvesting via multiple protocols and a growing variety of metadata standards. The software is a collection of applications and consists of three server applications, a client application and a database.

The prototype described in this paper provides the technical basis for all key archiving functions, following the OAIS model. The deliverable also discusses possible tools for distribution of data and presents the workflow.

This report describes and analyse a selection of existing deposit services within the SSH based on a common framework and set of information categories that seeks to synthesize the knowledge contained within the different deposit services. In addition, it also provides a set of best practices and...

The da|ra Metadata Schema is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the identification of data and retrieval purposes. Each DOI name is linked to a set of metadata, a collection of bibliographical and content information, which describe in detail the registered resources (title, author, pu...

The GESIS software Dataset Documentation Manager (DSDM) can be used to describe datasets, document variables and questions, and create CodebookExplorer databases: - Read in SPSS datasets - Documentation of variables - Documentation of question texts, answer texts, codes - Multi-linguality and...

The CESSDA Technical Working Group aims to monitor and advise on needs regarding technical services.

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