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The key issues in secondary analysis as a method. The introductory session briefly covers the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will be discussed with examples and issues of context, sampli...

In this SSHOCingly good and sustainable tools booklet the tools, resources and plug & play communities produced by the SSHOC project, is showcased through their dedicated factsheets. The booklet start with the SSH Open Marketplace, and continue with the factsheets per category: Sharing & Discover...

Researchers, learn how to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), how to assess the FAIRness of research data and which tools to use to make data more FAIR.

The Recommendations for FAIR Data Citation, produced by SSHOC T3.4 "Making Data Findable by being Citable," are born out of the growing need for guidelines for data citation in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Based on the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and adapted for the SSH, this d...

FAIR data are the pillar of Open Science which is at the core of the SSHOC project. In order to ensure findability of data and other resources, it is crucial to provide easy-to-use recommendations for data citation in the SSH domains. Certainly, there are different needs and practices with regard...

De-identifying qualitative data poses unique challenges given their structure and contextual richness. As the sharing of qualitative data is becoming more common, reliably de-identifying such data is crucial because participants in qualitative research projects commonly receive assurances of conf...

This CESSDA event is a recording of the hands-on workshop on Geographic Information Systems for social scientists with some experience in R that took place on 23 November 2021. 00:00 Introduction: Data Management 17:25 Introduction: Geospatial Data 33:19 Exercise 1: R Warm up 39:49 Data Processi...

A Q&A session with a number of panelists who have experience of installing and/or configuring and/or running Dataverse and Kuha2 as an OAI-PMH endpoint, or preparing the study level metadata files that are harvested from them. This webinar aims at providing support to CESSDA Service Providers wit...

The Return on Investment Factsheet explains return on investment (ROI) and how it is used; the key ROI findings from the impact study of the Economic and Social Data Service in the UK; the evidence we have that data collections are usually appreciating assets; and how to consider “the cost of ina...

This user guide provides an overview of the the CESSDA SaW Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit components and the additional external tools that have been selected, and supplemental guidance in their use. It is intended to be used with other components of the CESSDA Saw Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit to...