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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. DDI is a free standard that can document and manage different stages in the research data life...

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...

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,...

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,...

DataverseTV is a collection of videos and presentations from the Dataverse community.

The lecture by Slava Tykhonov, Senior Information Scientist at DANS-KNAW (Netherlands), about the evolution in the development of Dataverse data repository. The past, present and the future, European and national projects as innovation basis to build a FAIR data infrastructure.

For more than a decade, the Dataverse Project (dataverse.org) has provided an open-source platform used to build data repositories around the world. Core to its success is its hybrid development approach, which pairs a core team based at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard Un...

This report provides an inventory of data formats and metadata standards that are currently used and relevant for the research infrastructures currently managed by the SSHOC main stakeholders, recommendations of specific formats and standards for increasing interoperability, and prioritisations f...

Data/metadata processing and format conversion tool.