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Looking for an unambiguous calendar-and-clock format that is internationally understood? It’s time for ISO 8601. This ISO standard helps remove doubts that can result from the various day–date conventions, cultures and time zones that impact a global operation. It gives a way of presenting dates...

The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries and their subdivisions. However, it does not define the names of countries – this information comes from United Nations sources (Terminology Bulletin Country...

Internationally recognized codes for the representation of more than 500 languages or language families, with ISO 639 This ISO standard can be applied across many types of organization and situations. It’s invaluable for bibliographic purposes, in libraries or information management, including c...

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. DDI is a free standard that can document and manage different stages in the research data life...

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...

On September 28, the second edition of the DANS Data Trail took place - an online series covering various topics around Research Data Management and Open Science. In this meeting, the road to Open Science and the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was on the agenda.

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.

Find information about social science research data, publications on research data as well as open access publications.

CESSDA and its national Service Providers strive to serve the research community despite the coronavirus crisis, and online services continue to function as usual. The CESSDA consortium is especially committed to supporting researchers working on COVID-19 related research. On this page you can f...

Your information hub for SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic related studies in Austria in the social sciences. Studies will be made available as fast as possible. Thus, not all information is available in English. Some studies will be published as pre-releases meaning that these are not the final dat...