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APIS' deposit process explained to researchers.

This specific guide sheds light on the various fields of the SODHA platform, which is a Dataverse installation. It provides additional explanation and examples for most fields of the software.

This collection of webpages from FSD include best practice guidelines for managing research data across the whole life cycle of data. These guidelines can be useful for the archive staff as well as for data producers. The guidelines are very extensive and are divided in to eleven categories and a...

This webpage gives recommendations to the depositor: 1. before depositing data, such as licenses, terms of use, IPR, personal data, file formats, discipline-specific requirements, pricing; 2. during the deposit process: how to provide metadata, how to chose access categories, how to upload the...

This File Format Policy of ISSDA defines the preferred and acceptable formats of datasets, documentation and metadata, that is acquired, preserved and distributed by the archive. The document could be useful for establishing policies towards both, data depositors and designated community of users.

The web page contains information about the liability of DANS for datasets and metadata, as well as the citation rules.

The da|ra Metadata Schema is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the identification of data and retrieval purposes. Each DOI name is linked to a set of metadata, a collection of bibliographical and content information, which describe in detail the registered resources (title, author, pu...

The Best Practice Guide of GESIS gives recommendations and suggestions to the user to optimise the registration of data holdings via GESIS system da|ra. Additionally, many examples are provided and the use of various standards and best practices are described (DOI, metadata, versioning, citations...

This Archive Training Manual summarises the core processes and documentation that underpin a trusted digital repository. The manual links to a range of UK Data Archive documentation, as well as the documentation related to the processes at selected European data archives. Archive Training Manual...