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FORS does everything possible to provide open and easy access to data, while at the same time protecting the confidentiality of research participants and the rights of the data depositors. They rely on a combination of basic anonymization techniques (e.g., taking out identifying variables), acces...

This document describes some of the common data processing checks, techniques and procedures undertaken during the ingest processing of quantitative data collections at the UK Data Archive. Since the bulk of quantitative data acquired by the Archive remains social survey data or similar, the guid...

This document covers the ingest processing of qualitative data collections archived at the UK Data Archive. It does not cover quantitative ingest processing, which is covered in the document Quantitative Data Ingest Processing Procedures. However, where mixed-method data collections contain both...

This guide covers standards and procedures for the preparation and preservation of documentation for UK Data Archive studies.

This document defines data collection ingest processing standards currently in use at the UK Data Archive, and the criteria used to allocate those standards.

This document is a brief but comprehensive overview of the main stages of data ingest processing undertaken on studies/data collections acquired by the UK Data Archive. It is intended as an introductory guide for new Ingest Services staff. New staff will normally undertake ingest processing work...

DataverseTV is a collection of videos and presentations from the Dataverse community.

This presentation includes details on flexible metadata for Dataverse as used in the TROLLing database in Norway

In the autumn of 2021 Digital Research Alliance of Canada held three webinars about using/setting up Dataverse. This is the recording of the third webinar: Data curation and metadata best practices.

In the autumn of 2021 Digital Research Alliance of Canada held three webinars about using/setting up Dataverse. This is the recording of the second webinar: Dataverse Community Panel: Use cases from across Canada