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Short guide to the Collection Development Policy of ISSDA, including the description of the scope of collection (type of data, thematic, and geographic coverage) and criteria for evaluation of a deposited dataset.

This report describes and analyse a selection of existing deposit services within the SSH based on a common framework and set of information categories that seeks to synthesize the knowledge contained within the different deposit services. In addition, it also provides a set of best practices and...

ADP's digital preservation policy not only determines the rules, the responsibilities, the roles, and the system of monitoring data management in the Slovenian social science data archive, but also presents the archive's designated community, mission, funding, roles of staff, digital object manag...

This collection of webpages from FSD include best practice guidelines for managing research data across the whole life cycle of data. These guidelines can be useful for the archive staff as well as for data producers. The guidelines are very extensive and are divided in to eleven categories and a...

The Data Acquisition Protocol provides detailed description of the workflow at ISSDA based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model. The document outlines all relevant processes, including validating the Submission Information Package (SIP), creation of an Archival Informati...

This DASISH deliverable is a combination of a state-of-the-art description and a guideline for data repositories seeking to provide a trustworthy environment for data management and data curation within the social sciences and humanities. The deliverable discusses the benchmark frameworks and sta...

This webpage gives recommendations to the depositor: 1. before depositing data, such as licenses, terms of use, IPR, personal data, file formats, discipline-specific requirements, pricing; 2. during the deposit process: how to provide metadata, how to chose access categories, how to upload the...

This webpage explains the UK Data Service's security philosophy called the Five Safes Framework. It introduces and explains the set of principles which enable data services to provide safe access to data for research, meeting the needs of data protection, but also fulfilling the demands of open s...

This webpage summarizes legal information of importance for the deposit of data files in EASY and for the use of data from EASY. It contains brief information about license agreement and general conditions of use, as well as DANS privacy regulation, liability and intellectual property rights. Fro...

The report contains general guidelines on how to determine what research data should be preserved for the long term and what data should not. These guidelines can be used by individual researchers or research groups, researchers who co-operate within a collaboratory, research institutes, universi...