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UKDA mission outlined and explained

The scope of this policy is limited to the Archive ’s data collections. It deals with all aspects of preservation and applies to all materials held for long-term digital preservation by the Archive on behalf of the University of Essex and others. The policy only covers the preservation of data co...

Participants will hear about the key issues in secondary analysis as a method. The introductory session will briefly cover the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will be discussed with exampl...

The complete application for CoreTrustSeal (CTS) by UKDA (May 2020). CTS offers a process of self-evaluation for digital repositories. The certification process consists of a set of 16 criteria with which a repository must comply.

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.

The Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) is the leading British English thesaurus for the social sciences. Developed by the UK Data Service, HASSET is used in-house for indexing and retrieval of UK Data Service data, and by many third party organisations. It consists of ove...

As part of the SSHOC activities, CLARIN is organizing a series of online events to raise awareness about open-source vocabulary hosting and management platforms: 3 September 2020: First session - Introduction to Wikibase Vocabulary Platform 14 September 2020: Second session - Introduction to Sk...

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 section of the UK Data Service website gives a selection of data that are available to explore via our online tools.