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Agreement on personal data processing which is useful for assessing the suitability of research data for archiving at FSD.

FSD deposition agreement

General terms and conditions for data use as developed by FSD.

This study focuses on the use and users of Finnish social science research data archive. Study is based on enriched user data of the archive from years 2015–2018. Study investigates the number and type of downloaded datasets, the number of citations for data, the demographics of data downloaders...

FSD has developed different batch files: - TarkastaXML checks that metadata and variable files are valid DDI; - Koodikirjoitin creates pdf codebooks based on metadata and variable files; - Updatemeta runs certain automatic updates to metadata files; - Datakesken disables write protection from the...

Tiipii2 is FSD's internal database for managing user information and messages, logging changes made to data files, managing publications related to data, listing presentations and visits etc.

Column-graphs is a JavaScript library for creating modifiable column graphs. It currently contains two graph types: stacked bars and compare categories.

Penna is a data collection tool maintained by FSD that is specifically designed for collecting textual data. Penna's user interface makes it easy for people to participate in a study and facilitates the archiving of the data.

Kuha2 is metadata server developed to provide research metadata for harvesting using multiple protocols and metadata standards. It is composed of a collection of server applications and a client. Kuha2 is targeted at data archives who wish to make their metadata harvestable by interested parties.