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Trust is an essential part of open science, FAIR, and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This report provides an analysis of the recent developments in Trust activities, focusing on the SSH domain and Europe, that are of interest to CESSDA and its Service Providers (SPs). The report builds o...

This deliverable reports on two activities of the CESSDA Trust working group. First, the online Trust workshop organised on 11 November 2021 and second, an analysis of the Trust landscape.

The Data Archiving Guide (DAG) is designed to provide new employees at social science data archives with a general understanding of the work a data archive performs.

This is a recording of a CESSDA workshop on the Data Archiving Guide (DAG). The DAG (https://dag.cessda.eu/) is designed to support the work of employees of data repositories by providing a general understanding of the full range of activities a data repository performs.

This deliverable contains the second output of task 3.3 – national development plans for establishing data services in the social sciences in non-CESSDA member countries in Europe. The goal of task 3.3 of CESSDA SaW was to draw up individual national development plans for aspiring CESSDA Service...

The ethical and legal issues relating to research process in social sciences involving human participants had raised the concerns of policymakers, lawyers and scientists for many years. This topic especially came to the spotlight as the new GDPR entered into force in 2018. Anne-Mette Somby presen...

DDI - Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) which is a specification aimed at helping implementers integrate data across domain and institutional boundaries. Modern research increasingly involves large amounts of data, much of which comes from non-traditional sources (sensors, big data, social medi...

The objective of this task is to establish the conditions for creating new or reinforcing existing social science data services. The task will establish the needs for the provisioning of development support services for new and existing CESSDA Service Providers. Seven pilot studies of Service Pro...

This is a follow-up of D3.2. The focus is on identifying what development steps can be proposed to tackle the obstacles in the way of achieving the widened and strengthened CESSDA ERIC. The maturity of data archive service (DAS) in most European countries was audited. The analysis contains elemen...

This report specifies the data access categories that are to be implemented in the CESSDA Data Catalogue. The discussion focuses on how the implementation can be done within the DDI framework which is the common metadata standard for CESSDA Service Providers and CDC Publishers. (The report was cr...