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CODATA and the DDI Alliance collaborated to present free online training at the European DDI conference 2022. The training event introduced DDI and describes the major specifications, DDI Codebook and DDI Lifecycle, as well as the upcoming DDI Cross-Domain Integration. In addition, DDI tool demon...

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.

The PID Forum is a global information and discussion platform for persistent identifiers (PIDs), which brings together the various communities working with PIDs in the research world. It’s a virtual place for sharing best practices, announcing events, asking questions, and having discussions abou...

Following a year-long public discussion and building on existing community consensus1, several stakeholders, representing various segments of the digital repository community, have collaboratively developed and endorsed a set of guiding principles to demonstrate digital repository trustworthiness...

The last decade has seen a marked increase in the creation, analysis and reuse of data by scholars across a wide range of disciples. In response to this trend, the management and curation of data has become increasingly important for libraries in the digital and data age. The increased focus and...

The last decade has seen a marked increase in the creation, analysis and reuse of data by scholars across a wide range of disciples. In response to this trend, the management and curation of data has become increasingly important for libraries in the digital and data age. The increased focus and...

This document provides an overview of the Qualitative Data Repository's (QDR) internal curation process. The process includes standardized steps from depositor contact, file processing procedures and Dataverse repository operations, to publication of the data project and thereafter.

The Data Curation Continuum was developed as a way of thinking about data repository infrastructure. Since its original development over a decade ago, a number of things have changed in the data infrastructure domain. This paper revisits the thinking behind the original data curation continuum an...