Resource Directory

The Nesstar Server is built as an extension to a normal web server. As well as providing all the usual facilities for publishing web content, this server provides the ability to publish statistical information that can be searched, browsed, analysed and downloaded by users. This is done either by...

DSpace is an open-source repository software package used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content.

Nesstar WebView is a web-based system for the dissemination of data. It can be used to view data, including tabular (cube) data, and metadata that have been published using Nesstar Publisher and made available on a Nesstar Server.

R package to document a dataset writing a nice codebook in PDF format

SUPER DADA is a bash script that adapts XML-DDI metadata files produced by Dataverse in order to make them compliant with the technical requirements of the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) at the basic level of validation.

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...

A custom made, Javascript based data explorer similar to Nesstar but working in a webpage. It is currently displaying the RODA catalogue, but it can be disseminated as a data access software.

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

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.

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...