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Summary of the national development plan for Austria that serves as a communication and promotion tool.

Summary of the national development plan for Bulgaria that serves as a communication and promotion tool.

Summary of the national development plan for Croatia that serves as a communication and promotion tool.

Summary of the national development plan for Kosovo that serves as a communication and promotion tool.

Data selection and appraisal play an important role in the acquisition of data in any archival setting. The collections policy indicates the principles and criteria by which the archive develops its data collection in order to serve the designated community. In terms of acquisition, the FORS unit...

Short guide to the Collection Development Policy of ISSDA, including the description of the scope of collection (type of data, thematic, and geographic coverage) and criteria for evaluation of a deposited dataset.

This collection of webpages from FSD include best practice guidelines for managing research data across the whole life cycle of data. These guidelines can be useful for the archive staff as well as for data producers. The guidelines are very extensive and are divided in to eleven categories and a...

This webpage gives recommendations to the depositor: 1. before depositing data, such as licenses, terms of use, IPR, personal data, file formats, discipline-specific requirements, pricing; 2. during the deposit process: how to provide metadata, how to chose access categories, how to upload the...

This webpage summarizes legal information of importance for the deposit of data files in EASY and for the use of data from EASY. It contains brief information about license agreement and general conditions of use, as well as DANS privacy regulation, liability and intellectual property rights. Fro...

This File Format Policy of ISSDA defines the preferred and acceptable formats of datasets, documentation and metadata, that is acquired, preserved and distributed by the archive. The document could be useful for establishing policies towards both, data depositors and designated community of users.