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This document is the unchanged update of the CESSDA PID Policy 2019 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3611327). It includes the updated CESSDA PID Policy Principles and provides the latest recommendations and Best Practice examples. The CESSDA ERIC Persistent Identifier Policy is intended to suppor...

This guide is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

As a continuation of SaW project assessment of the situation in European countries regarding state of the art data archive data service, the CESSDA Widening Activities 2018 includes the report on current and recent / new development, and addressing persistent obstacles to progress. The activity c...

This is the current public version of the User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model version 2.0. The guidelines address all relevant aspects of the elements in the CESSDA Metadata Model, and serve to provide recommendations and guidance for usage. Please send your requests to the CESSDA Metadata O...

The CESSDA Tools Group represent both users’ and SPs’ interest in terms of what needs to be developed. The group’s goal is to prioritise and realise new tools and services from Service Providers and third parties for CESSDA's users.

This text is a first draft overview of possible trust support approaches based on the experiences of the CESSDA Trust Working Group and its members. It supports internal discussion within CESSDA, particularly within the Trust Group but is also made available to other support providers for informa...

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.

These guidelines define: how CESSDA products are developed; how services powered by these products are operated; the principles used for Quality Assurance of the products; the technical infrastructure the products run on.