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Data quality is a topic which is often discussed and attracts a lot of interest, but the way in which it is approached varies widely. CODATA's fourth and final webinar in the 2021 series, examined different approaches in the use of metadata for describing data quality from the perspective of data...

The document contains a mapping of metadata elements of the CESSDA Data Catalogue to the CESSDA Metadata Model (CMM), to OpenAire, to B2Find, to schema.org and to Dublin Core. It also provides definitions, information on requirements and notes for every metadata element.

Digital preservation is a fast-moving and growing community of practice of ubiquitous relevance, but in which capability is unevenly distributed. Within the research community, digital preservation has a close alignment to the FAIR principles and is delivered through a complex specialist infrastr...

This draft working paper has been prepared by members of the SSHOC, EOSC Nordic and FAIRsFAIR projects working on related topics. It seeks to present some key concepts and expand on them to specify the standards and assessments required for an interoperable ecosystem of FAIR (findable, accessible...

Assessing the FAIRness of your repository's data holdings can help you to identify areas where your service could be optimised to become more FAIR-enabling. This webinar will introduce the F-UJI assessment tool (https://www.fairsfair.eu/f-uji-automated-fair-data-assessment-tool) which was develop...

As part of the 2019 SERISS train-the-trainer workshop, Libby Bishop discusses ethical and legal issues for data.

To remedy the proliferation of FAIRness measurements based on different interpretations of the principles, the RDA Working Group “FAIR data maturity model” established in January 2019 aims to develop a common set of core assessment criteria for FAIRness, as an RDA Recommendation. In the course of...

Each data collection (a.k.a. ‘study’) contained within the UK Data Archive’s Discover catalogue has an individual catalogue record. The aim of the catalogue record is to provide users with enough information to enable them to decide if a particular study will be suitable for their requirements. T...

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...

When depositing data at SND, a written agreement is always established between SND and the research principal. This webpage contains deposit agreement in paper and digital form.