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New report on metadata practices - Standards, controlled vocabularies and requirements for the CESSDA Portfolio
CESSDA's Metadata Management (CMM) project has released its first report today, entitled CESSDA Service Providers’ Metadata Practices.
CESSDA lays the technical foundations for a pan-European social science data research infrastructure
Phase 1 of the Technical Framework project has recently been completed. It ran from October 2015 to April 2016 and was intended to build the foundations that the various components of the CESSDA Research Infrastructure (such as a Products and Services Catalogue) will sit on.
New General Data Protection Regulation Adopted - Summary from the Big Data Europe webinar
The second Big Data Europe Societal Challenge 6 webinar was held on 25 May 2016 and a summary has been prepared in the framework of the project.
New website for the CESSDA SaW project comes online
A new dedicated website for our project "CESSDA SaW - Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives" is now online.
New staff join the Research Infrastructure CESSDA
In April 2016, two new staff members joined the CESSDA main office in Bergen.
Interested in the “data revolution” and what it means for research? Here’s why you should attend IASSIST2016
The theme of this year’s conference is “Embracing the ‘data revolution’: opportunities and challenges for research” and it is the 42nd of its kind, taking place every year. IASSIST2016 will take place in Bergen, Norway, from 31 May to 3 June, hosted by NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data.