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This document is a technical Recommended Practice for use in developing a broader consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite Long Term, preservation of digital information. This Recommended Practice establishes a common framework of terms and concepts which m...

The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) was developed for use in facilitating a broad, discipline independent, consensus on the requirements for an archive or repository to provide long-term, preservation of digital information. It was also intended to support the devel...

The Sodanet Data Catalogue includes the following eight different categories of Data Projects, such as: Quantitative Studies, Qualitative Studies, Mixed Studies, Cubes, Indices & Classifications, Metadata of Statistical Surveys, Corpora and Replication Data for Quantitative Analysis.

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...

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...

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,...

The catalogue provides direct and free online access to the metadata of the surveys and databases that the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has conducted since the 1940s. It also provides access to some of the open access databases produced at Ined. The catalogue is based on NADA,...

DataverseTV is a collection of videos and presentations from the Dataverse community.

The lecture by Slava Tykhonov, Senior Information Scientist at DANS-KNAW (Netherlands), about the evolution in the development of Dataverse data repository. The past, present and the future, European and national projects as innovation basis to build a FAIR data infrastructure.