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SO 32000-1:2008 specifies a digital form for representing electronic documents to enable users to exchange and view electronic documents independent of the environment in which they were created or the environment in which they are viewed or printed. It is intended for the developer of software t...

This is a UKDS guide for researchers on UK law and the EU GDPR.

The National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) is a national network of research data management (RDM) experts in Nederlands. The LCRDM connects policy and daily practice. Within the LCRDM, experts work together to put RDM topics on the agenda that require a joint national appr...

The following glossary is provided as a resource for data producers, data librarians, data users, and is based on a glossary prepared by James Jacobs, formerly at the University of California, San Diego. Some terms were also added from XML Terms: Jargon terms in XML and what they mean . To suppl...

The EU’s GDPR only applies to personal data, which is any piece of information that relates to an identifiable person. It’s crucial for any business with EU consumers to understand this concept for GDPR compliance.

The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This is the online version of the DMEG.

The Data Archiving Guide (DAG) is designed to provide new employees at social science data archives with a general understanding of the work a data archive performs.

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...

This Glossary of Terms supports the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2020–2022: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211

The research data management terminology formerly stewarded by CASRAI is now managed by CODATA. The terminology is reviewed via a lightweight and pragmatic process on an annual basis, drawing on the expertise of a voluntary expert Working Group.