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The Swedish Research Council’s Guide to Research Infrastructure 2018 is a roadmap for the continued development of Swedish research infrastructure. The purpose of the Guide is to indicate needs, challenges and opportunities related to research infrastructure, and to propose recommendations aimed...

As a continuation of SaW project assessment of the situation in European countries regarding state of the art data archive data service, the CESSDA Widening Activities 2018 includes the report on current and recent / new development, and addressing persistent obstacles to progress. The activity c...

Previously Google Refine, this data manipulation tool is used by the UK Data Archive for data cleansing and quality control purposes. It is particularly useful for correcting erroneous text values in tabular data.

Developed by the UK Data Service, this open source tool can be used to automatically assess and report on elements of quality, such as missingness, labelling, duplication, formats, outliers and direct identifiers.

This training event is devoted specifically to FAIR Data in SSH, and it provides answers to the following questions, among others: - How is research data in SSH defined? - Why are FAIR principles important for the management of research data in SSH? - How can the FAIR principles be implemented in...

Training researchers who want to access confidential, legally controlled data in data protection and statistical disclosure is a key part of ensuring the safe use of these data and an important task for secure data facility professionals. But developing suitable training materials can be resource...

This online hands-on workshop is aimed at trainers and support staff looking to introduce semi-automated tools in data management training sessions/materials. It will provide a platform for discussion around best practices for introducing researchers to key principles of assessing data quality an...

This report specifies the data access categories that are to be implemented in the CESSDA Data Catalogue. The discussion focuses on how the implementation can be done within the DDI framework which is the common metadata standard for CESSDA Service Providers and CDC Publishers. (The report was cr...

Social science and humanities research infrastructures allow the sharing and safe use of confidential data for research. In recent years there has been a shift towards virtual data enclaves or Remote Access or Remote Desktop systems that offer fewer physical controls. They need to be replaced wit...

Data quality is a topic which is often discussed and attracts a lot of interest, but the way in which it is approached varies widely. CODATA's fourth and final webinar in the 2021 series, examined different approaches in the use of metadata for describing data quality from the perspective of data...