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Launch of UKDA-store

DataShare — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:41 GMT

UKDA has built a fedora-based repository for self-archiving of ESRC-funded data outputs that do not fit the ESDS collections development policy, allowing a larger body of research data to be shared.

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Data Seal of Approval

DataShare — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:58:42 GMT

The Social Science Data Archive, DANS, Netherlands, has published quality guidelines for data archiving and "making data future-proof." An innovation is that the 17 guidelines apply in turn to data archives, but also data producers and data users.

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Data-PASS

DataShare — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:23:04 GMT

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies....

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Open Data Foundation » Blog Archive » UN Statistical Commission recognizes SDMX as preferred standard

DataShare — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:45:44 GMT

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UKDA-store to be launched : JISC

DataShare — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:42:55 GMT

Following on from the StORe project, a JISC press release announces that UKDA-store will be launched on 30 June 2008 at the NCRM Methods Festival in Oxford. UKDA-store uses repository software to aid researchers to deposit data with the UK Data Archive and to self-archive their data. Astrid Wissenburg, Director of Communication and Information at the ESRC is quoted as saying that "The ESRC welcomes the creation of UKDA-store as a valuable tool for the archiving of social science data, and is complementary to the ESRC's publications repository."

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