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Social media data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Archiving social media data is associated with a number of specific practical, legal, and ethical challenges that researchers and archivists need to address. In addition, the documentation of social media data also has its own requir...

This report describes the task 4.5 and its aim to collect information on future cooperation between current and potential CESSDA partners. Using the information from the non-CESSDA member data services, the 4.7 deliverable summarises the current state and needs of these data services.

Data discovery is a crucial stage in the research process, especially in the social sciences and humanities as many valuable studies have originated from secondary data. Speakers from the Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA), Johana Chylíková and Martin Vávra, took participants on a tour thr...

This publication on data management includes both general chapters on data life cycle and open access, as well as more specific chapters on data management during the research process.

These webpages provide information on data mangement for researchers offering an overview on: the principles for open access to research data; data management; and ethical and legal conditions.

This webpage from CSDA is an example of the guidance that an archive can develop to help data producers with data management. Topics covered are: Data file structure, Variables, Variable values and coding, Missing values, Data entry and data file integrity, Anonymisation, Weighting, Data file doc...

The report identifies gaps (in 2017) for further development of data archives services in each country by exploring the wider ecosystem of data sharing culture, organisational setting, and service operational profile.