Resource Directory

da|ra is a DOI registration agency for social and economic data. GESIS offers a service of DOI registration of research data for data centers or data archives seeking to make their data permanently available for referencing and citing.

The da|ra Metadata Schema is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the identification of data and retrieval purposes. Each DOI name is linked to a set of metadata, a collection of bibliographical and content information, which describe in detail the registered resources (title, author, pu...

The Best Practice Guide of GESIS gives recommendations and suggestions to the user to optimise the registration of data holdings via GESIS system da|ra. Additionally, many examples are provided and the use of various standards and best practices are described (DOI, metadata, versioning, citations...