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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...

Dataverse is an open-source web-based application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. The central idea behind Dataverse is to automate much of the job of the professional archivist, and to provide services for and to distribute credit to the data creator.

Kuha2 is a metadata server that provides descriptive social science research metadata for harvesting via multiple protocols and a growing variety of metadata standards. The software is a collection of applications and consists of three server applications, a client application and a database.

Kuha is a lightweight OAI-PMH Data Provider implementation. It provides a good starting point for developing your own OAI-PMH server. !! Warning !! Kuha is no longer in development because of Kuha2. Kuha will be closed October 28, 2021.

The CESSDA Training Working Group offers training, advice and educational resources on: research data management, data discovery and use, digital preservation and data archiving, CESSDA tools and services.