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Data management describes the handling, organisation, and structuring of research material during the research process. On these pages SND has collected useful information about how to maintain, preserve and share research data.

This is an R package that provides various functions to read DDI based metadata documentation, and write dedicated setup files for R, SPSS, Stata and SAS to read an associated .csv file containing the raw data, apply labels for variables and values and also deal with the treatment of missing valu...

IASSIST paper on the history of the CoreTrustSeal National and international digital repositories must design and deliver sustainable services as a foundation for a range of scientific and data management infrastructures while reducing costs and avoiding duplication of effort. The CoreTrustSeal,...

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 CESSDA Data Catalogue is a one-stop-shop for search and discovery of social science and humanities research data.

CESSDA Vocabulary Service enables users to discover, browse, and download controlled vocabularies in a variety of languages. The majority of the source (English) vocabularies included in the service have been created by the DDI Alliance.

This section of the UK Data Service website has web pages to aid researchers looking specifically for data on particular themes, e.g. ageing, COVID-19, health, crime, education

This guide helps drafting a data management plan (DMP) from the perspective of the social sciences. Drawing on the model developed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, it provides recommendations and tips on how to address the main topics of the DMP so that it fulfils the funder’s requiremen...

The AUSSDA non-compliance policy serves to inform depositors and users of social science data provided by the repository about the possible consequences in case of non-compliance with the terms of use and terms of access.

There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers—have come together to design and jointly endorse a concise and measureable set of principles that...