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CESSDA Vocabulary Manager
CESSDA CV-Manager is a tool that provides comprehensive functionalities to manage hierarchical controlled vocabularies (CVs). This tool manages the entire workflow process of a CV, from creation,...
Beam us up Scotty. The CESSDA Metadata Management Core Metadata Model goes into Round Two
At EDDI15 the CESSDA Metadata Management (CMM) group presented the project which had just been started. One year later, the creation of the Metadata Portfolio Version1 is under way and consideratio...
Elaborating an XML crosswalk between DDI and EAD for an emerging data archive service
Belgium has recently decided to integrate the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). The Social Sciences and Humanities Data Archive (SOHDA) project aims at tackling the diff...
Kuha2: A New Open Source DDI Aware Metadata Server
Kuha2 is a metadata server that provides descriptive social science research metadata for harvesting via multiple protocols and a variety of metadata standards. Kuha is still evolving but it has be...
Steps towards a Single Point of Access for Survey Questions across Europe: The Euro Question Bank Project
The Euro Question Bank (EQB) project will create a single point of access for survey questions across Europe. For social science researchers, the EQB will provide an integrated and easy to use port...
Practical Implementations of the DDILimDAS Results at the GESIS Data Archive
So far, different DDI formats have been used at the GESIS Data Archive. The aim of the project DDILimDAS was to create a common metadata schema in DDI Lifecycle format to promote interoperability...