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On April 21, 2022, the DANS Data Trail Explore new tools for your FAIR toolkit took place. During the workshop, we looked back on selected highlights that FAIRsFAIR has contributed to the international journey towards more FAIR data and zoomed in on two concrete tools: F-UJI - for assessing the F...

This video explains the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs). It was made for the FREYA project - aimed to build the infrastructure for persistent identifiers as a core component of open science, in the EU and globally. FREYA worked to improve discovery, navigation, retrieval, and access of resea...

There is a long and varied history associated with the evolution of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, a historical review is missing in the academic literature that portrays the evolution of the academic understanding of the concept alongside with the public and inter...

This working paper is a bottom-up initiative of a group of stakeholders from the European repository community. Its purpose is to outline an aspirational vision of a European Network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs). This initiative originates from the workshop entitled “T...

The activities of the Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP) are presented for the implementation of open data policies at PhD school of University of Ljubljana. The activities are part of the Archive's broader efforts to promote open science and a culture of data sharing that underpins tra...

In this paper, the task of assigning relevant labels to studies in the social science domain is considered. Manual labelling is an expensive process and prone to human error. Various multi-label text classification machine learning approaches have been proposed to resolve this problem. We introdu...

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 3,300 concepts...

SWISSUbase, the new research data service for the archiving and sharing of research data was launched for the social sciences on December 14, 2021. FAIR compliant, SWISSUbase provides archiving aligned with international standards; multi-lingual search capability; connectivity with European Resea...

During this workshop, Ammar Ammar (Maastricht University) presents his upcoming paper on FAIR assessment tools, and the same criteria are applied to DANS’s FAIR-Aware tool. The audience will get the opportunity to explore the tool and to discuss their feedback, following the same approach as in A...

NADA is an open source microdata cataloging system, compliant with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Dublin Core’s RDF metadata standards. It serves as a portal for researchers to browse, search, compare, apply for access, and download relevant census or survey datasets, questionnaires,...