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The ADP data catalogue for search and discovery of social science and humanities research data.

SUPER DADA is a bash script that adapts XML-DDI metadata files produced by Dataverse in order to make them compliant with the technical requirements of the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC). This version of the script is geared towards versions 5+ of Dataverse. In its current state, SUPER DADA modifi...

SUPER DADA is a bash script that adapts XML-DDI metadata files produced by Dataverse in order to make them compliant with the technical requirements of the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC). This version of the script is geared towards versions 4+ of Dataverse. In its current state, SUPER DADA modifi...

On April 21, 2022, the DANS Data Trail Explore new tools for your FAIR toolkit took place. During the workshop, we looked back on selected highlights that FAIRsFAIR has contributed to the international journey towards more FAIR data and zoomed in on two concrete tools: F-UJI - for assessing the F...

This video explains the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs). It was made for the FREYA project - aimed to build the infrastructure for persistent identifiers as a core component of open science, in the EU and globally. FREYA worked to improve discovery, navigation, retrieval, and access of resea...

In this paper, the task of assigning relevant labels to studies in the social science domain is considered. Manual labelling is an expensive process and prone to human error. Various multi-label text classification machine learning approaches have been proposed to resolve this problem. We introdu...

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 3,300 concepts...

SWISSUbase, the new research data service for the archiving and sharing of research data was launched for the social sciences on December 14, 2021. FAIR compliant, SWISSUbase provides archiving aligned with international standards; multi-lingual search capability; connectivity with European Resea...

During this workshop, Ammar Ammar (Maastricht University) presents his upcoming paper on FAIR assessment tools, and the same criteria are applied to DANS’s FAIR-Aware tool. The audience will get the opportunity to explore the tool and to discuss their feedback, following the same approach as in A...

NADA is an open source microdata cataloging system, compliant with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Dublin Core’s RDF metadata standards. It serves as a portal for researchers to browse, search, compare, apply for access, and download relevant census or survey datasets, questionnaires,...