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da|ra is a DOI registration agency for social and economic data. GESIS offers a service of DOI registration of research data for data centers or data archives seeking to make their data permanently available for referencing and citing.

This is the current public version of the User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model version 2.0. The guidelines address all relevant aspects of the elements in the CESSDA Metadata Model, and serve to provide recommendations and guidance for usage. Please send your requests to the CESSDA Metadata O...

This is the current public version of the CESSDA Metadata Model (CMM). Guidelines for the usage of and best practice for the CMM can be found in the User Guide.

Social media data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Archiving social media data is associated with a number of specific practical, legal, and ethical challenges that researchers and archivists need to address. In addition, the documentation of social media data also has its own requir...

The two key issues covered by task 4.3 of the SaW project were: 1. Provide support, assistance and monitoring of progress by all CESSDA Service Providers (SPs) towards compliance with Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR) requirements, by undertaking CESSDA-internal peer review of self-assessments...

This text is a first draft overview of possible trust support approaches based on the experiences of the CESSDA Trust Working Group and its members. It supports internal discussion within CESSDA, particularly within the Trust Group but is also made available to other support providers for informa...

The CodebookExplorer is a programme which gives easy retrieval possibilities to interested users for databases of specific topics. The CodebookExplorer has the following functions: search for keywords in study or variable descriptions, compare question texts, make simple analysis like frequencies...

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...

The GESIS software package CharmStats provides a quick and easy way to harmonize your variables.