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Social media data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Archiving social media data is associated with a number of specific practical, legal, and ethical challenges that researchers and archivists need to address. In addition, the documentation of social media data also has its own requir...

The Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) is the leading British English thesaurus for the social sciences. Developed by the UK Data Service, HASSET is used in-house for indexing and retrieval of UK Data Service data, and by many third party organisations. It consists of ove...

A curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies intended for various audience.

The webinar explores two facets of the FAIRification of services: the FAIR assessment framework for data services, and the features of FAIR repositories.

Guides and support materials for researchers and project coordinators related with legal issues; copyright, licensing and research data; general data protection regulation and how to deal with sensitive data

Training for PhD researchers covering all basic elements of research data management and data management plans

Open science presentation about how to make publications and research data open

FAIR-Aware is an online tool that helps researchers and data managers assess how much they know about the requirements for making their datasets findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) before uploading them into a data repository. It also helps them to assess to what degree it is...

This video illustrates how certified digital repositories contribute to making and keeping research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Trustworthy repositories support Open Access to data, as well as Restricted Access when necessary, and they offer support for metadata,...

Managing research data effectively and efficiently is crucial for the success of any research project. In the modern eScience ecosystem, enabling optimal (re)use of data is a major challenge. This slide deck shows that the best approach to managing data is to be as open and FAIR as possible. I pr...