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The CESSDA SaW Capability Development Model (CESSDA-CDM) is a structured collection of elements that identify and describe the characteristics of effective preservation processes and activities. Building on established frameworks for trustworthy data preservation and the CESSDA community’s prior...

This handbook deals with legal and ethical regulations relevant for the use of personal data in research and copyright issues. In addition, it refers to the debate on the draft of GDPR.

This report assesses a selection of state-of-the-art guidelines and recommendations for formation of preservation policies. Furthermore it describes, compares & analyses the scope of policy-rules, and the requirements they set for the SSH domain. Based on the assessment of the policy rules and pr...

Nesstar Publisher is an advanced and DDI compliant data management program, which can be used as a standalone tool for the preparation of data and metadata but can also be used to mount the enhanced dataset on a Nesstar Server. The Publisher enables users to enhance datasets by combining a wide r...

NSD offers a tool for creating a data management plan. It is a functional tool for writing and updating a DMP dynamically. The resulting DMP is stored and is avialable via login at NSD, and can be downloaded. Further functionalities will be added (e.g. the possibility to share the DMP with other...

This guide aims to assist interested actors, or country teams, in developing plans for establishing national data services in the social sciences.

This report provides resources and guidelines for the development of internal service provider policies. It presents an implementable framework and a model that can be used by preservation organisations as a reference when building or renewing their organisational and operational data management...

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.

This report describes and analyse a selection of existing deposit services within the SSH based on a common framework and set of information categories that seeks to synthesize the knowledge contained within the different deposit services. In addition, it also provides a set of best practices and...

This DASISH deliverable is a combination of a state-of-the-art description and a guideline for data repositories seeking to provide a trustworthy environment for data management and data curation within the social sciences and humanities. The deliverable discusses the benchmark frameworks and sta...