Tools

FileSender is a web based application that allows authenticated users to securely and easily send large files to other users. Authentication of users is provided through SimpleSAMLphp, supporting SAML2, LDAP and RADIUS and more. Users without an account can be sent an upload voucher by an authent...

Stattransfer is used to transfer any quantitative data file format to SPSS file format (our principal file format for dissemination).

Open and review data (anonymisation check, quality checks, e.g., on variable and value labels or on the syntaxes provided as documentation), transfer from Stata to SPSS, as every data file are disseminate at least using SPSS file format.

File Checksum Tool is a free application that calculates and verifies MD5, SHA-1, HAVAL, MD2, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hash values from any file. A tool to create checksum (SHA-1) of data files that are included in the DIP. This allows data users who downloads the files to verify the Hash and...

Polymorph is a service used for converting SPSS and STATA files to CSV files for long term storage in open standards. Polymorph licensing is unclear yet (tool was developed to answer FORS needs). Also, the tool is still under development and is now accessible as a service in a website.

DeVisu provides a detailed view of datasets' variables. All questions, answers' categories (with codes and labels) and answers' distribution (number of cases and percentages) are available. DeVisu provides thus a nice complement of SWISSUbase for secondary users. For each dataset described in DeV...

Tool to save questionnaire (questions database) and to create survey. However, this is not currently used by the archive, but by the survey teams.

The FORS replication service allows the Swiss social science research community to share the materials needed for the replication of analyses of journal article publications. It is a free service run by the data service of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), which comple...

SWISSUbase is usedat FORS to acquire and disseminate data. It includes a reserach projects and data catalogue for data users. Data depositors can deposit their data using FORSbase. Contacts and contracts with data users and data depositors are also treated within SWISSUbase. SWISSUbase has repla...

Webview of the Colectica Repository.