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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.

ADP's digital preservation policy not only determines the rules, the responsibilities, the roles, and the system of monitoring data management in the Slovenian social science data archive, but also presents the archive's designated community, mission, funding, roles of staff, digital object manag...

The Data Acquisition Protocol provides detailed description of the workflow at ISSDA based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model. The document outlines all relevant processes, including validating the Submission Information Package (SIP), creation of an Archival Informati...

This webpage explains the UK Data Service's security philosophy called the Five Safes Framework. It introduces and explains the set of principles which enable data services to provide safe access to data for research, meeting the needs of data protection, but also fulfilling the demands of open s...

The report contains general guidelines on how to determine what research data should be preserved for the long term and what data should not. These guidelines can be used by individual researchers or research groups, researchers who co-operate within a collaboratory, research institutes, universi...

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.

The DANS guidelines on the file formats best suited for long-term sustainability and accessibility, including the definitions of different types of research data and the list of preferred formats for depositing in the archive.

Subject: Consultancy on anonymization checks for quantitative data and qualitative text data Description: AUSSDA is willing to share its anonymisation practices for the ingest of quantitative data and qualitative text data. The Austrian archive has extensive workflows and checklists to make sure...

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...

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