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Colorado State University librarians conducted five focus groups with thirty-one faculty, research scientists, and research associates. The groups explored: (1) The nature of data sets that these researchers create or maintain; (2) How participants manage their data; (3) Needs for support that th...

Looking for an unambiguous calendar-and-clock format that is internationally understood? It’s time for ISO 8601. This ISO standard helps remove doubts that can result from the various day–date conventions, cultures and time zones that impact a global operation. It gives a way of presenting dates...

The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries and their subdivisions. However, it does not define the names of countries – this information comes from United Nations sources (Terminology Bulletin Country...

Internationally recognized codes for the representation of more than 500 languages or language families, with ISO 639 This ISO standard can be applied across many types of organization and situations. It’s invaluable for bibliographic purposes, in libraries or information management, including c...

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...

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...

The catalogue provides direct and free online access to the metadata of the surveys and databases that the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has conducted since the 1940s. It also provides access to some of the open access databases produced at Ined. The catalogue is based on NADA,...

Qualtrics is a survey management tool.

SWISSUbase is usedat FORS to acquire and disseminate data. It includes a reserach projects and data catalogue for data users. Data depositors can deposit their data using FORSbase. Contacts and contracts with data users and data depositors are also treated within SWISSUbase. SWISSUbase has repla...