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CESSDA is recruiting a Director
Fri 19 Aug 2016

CESSDA is recruiting a Director

S/He will act as the chief executive officer, chief scientific officer and legal representative of CESSDA ERIC, leading the team and organisation to the next level.

FSD Bulletin: The Finnish Data Archive Offers Support for Research
Thu 11 Aug 2016

FSD Bulletin: The Finnish Data Archive Offers Support for Research

Tapio Yrjölä is Senior Lecturer at Business Information Systems Programme at TAMK (Tampere University of Applied Sciences). He has used data archived at the FSD in his methodology courses for years.

CESSDA Expert Seminar 2016 (CES2016) will focus on developing technical components for the CESSDA Research Infrastructure
Wed 29 Jun 2016

CESSDA Expert Seminar 2016 (CES2016) will focus on developing technical components for the CESSDA Research Infrastructure

The CESSDA Expert Seminar 2016 will be presented by the CESSDA Technical Working Group and hosted by the Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA) in Prague on 13 (PM) and 14 (AM) September 2016.

IASSIST16 - CESSDA sets the stage for the data infrastructure of the future
Tue 28 Jun 2016

IASSIST16 - CESSDA sets the stage for the data infrastructure of the future

The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) was presented at several sessions of the IASSIST2016 conference held in Bergen, from 31 May to 3 June 2016. The principal session was the plenary session, “CESSDA sets the stage for the data infrastructure of the future”, held on 2 June.

New report on metadata practices - Standards, controlled vocabularies and requirements for the CESSDA Portfolio
Tue 21 Jun 2016

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
Thu 16 Jun 2016

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.