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Continuation of CESSDA Widening in Italy
CESSDA Widening activities continue with this year’s first Widening meeting in Milan
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Over half of CESSDA Service Providers certified
As of June 2018, nine CESSDA Service providers have achieved Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR) status for the period 2017-2019.
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CESSDA addresses potential member countries during a two-day event in Milan
The CESSDA Strengthening and Widening workshop kicks off today (5 June) in Milan, Italy. The event runs over two days and aims to present CESSDA’s growing assets and services to potential new member countries.
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Looking back on 2017: New FSD strategy emphasises responsible open science
The year 2017 marked the start of a new four-year strategy for the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD).
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CESSDA lays the ground for further work on persistent identifiers in relation to FAIR principles
At a collocated event during the 11th RDA Plenary Meeting, on 21-23 March 2018 in Berlin, experts from the CESSDA PID Task Force laid the ground for future work on persistent identifiers.