Resource Directory

This deliverable from the project SERSCIDA describes the creation of Websites for the new institutions. It includes the Website structure and content, the physical infrastructure, and future developments. Websites are an essential instrument for new data services, even before these go into operat...

The landing page format is an expanded version of the German da|ra project to fit the needs of DDA. The DDA landing page is a subset of the information contained in DDI-L and drives the rendering of the HTML page. The result HTML page is embedded with schema.org tags for optimal search engine ind...

Dataverse is an open-source web-based application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. The central idea behind Dataverse is to automate much of the job of the professional archivist, and to provide services for and to distribute credit to the data creator.

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.

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...