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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.

Dataverse is an open-source web-based application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. The central idea behind Dataverse is to automate much of the job of the professional archivist, and to provide services for and to distribute credit to the data creator.

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...

The DDI-Codebook (DDI-C) standard is currently used in the Gesis Data Archive (DAS) as a metadata format for the documentation and archiving of products, projects, and processes. In order to cover the full life cycle of research data and to ensure interchangeability and reusability of metadata ex...

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts...

The GESIS software Dataset Documentation Manager (DSDM) can be used to describe datasets, document variables and questions, and create CodebookExplorer databases: - Read in SPSS datasets - Documentation of variables - Documentation of question texts, answer texts, codes - Multi-linguality and...