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New General Data Protection Regulation Adopted - Summary from the Big Data Europe webinar
Mon 13 Jun 2016

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
Fri 3 Jun 2016

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
Tue 31 May 2016

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
Tue 3 May 2016

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.

GESIS, the German service provider for CESSDA, is recruiting
Thu 14 Apr 2016

GESIS, the German service provider for CESSDA, is recruiting

The position to be filled is that of Head of the Scientific Department “Data Archive for the Social Sciences”/University Professorship (W3) in Empirical Social Research.

CESSDA Persistent Identification Task Force established
Wed 6 Apr 2016

CESSDA Persistent Identification Task Force established

Being able to unambiguously locate and access digital data resources and then associate them with the related metadata is becoming more and more essential in the current digital era.