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CESSDA - Official commitment to set up a European data infrastructure

Finland, Germany, Lituania, The Netherlands and Norway, signed on 29 June a memorandum of understanding to commit their financial and political support for the setting up of CESSDA as a social science data infrastructure. [MORE...]

CESSDA Expert Seminar 2010 focuses on cooperation between CESSDA archives and National Statistical Institutions

The 22nd CESSDA Expert seminar, hosted by SND, will take place on 16-17 September in Gothenburg. [more...]

ELSST multilingual thesaurus available

European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) has been developed over the years by the members of CESSDA. It facilitates access to data resources across Europe, independent of language and vocabulary. ELSST languages: English (source), Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Browse ELSST >>

Hans Jørgen Marker named President of Cessda

Hans Jørgen Marker, the Director of the Swedish National Data Service, has been appointed President of CESSDA, effective March 3, 2010. He replaces Professor Kevin Schürer, who will be leaving the directorship of the UK Data Archive and ESDS in order to take up an appointment at the University of Leicester as Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research.

CESSDA Expert Seminar 2009 in Ljubljana (8-10 November)

The theme of this year's seminar is "Towards the cessda-ERIC metadata model and DDI3". [more...]

 

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Research & Development

Current Projects

CESSDA PPP

The aim of this ongoing (2008-2009) project is to plan the future development of the CESSDA RI and focus on tackling and resolving a number of strategic, financial and legal issues in order to ensure that European social science and humanities (SSH) researchers have access to, and gain support for, the data resources they require to conduct research of the highest quality, irrespective of the location of either researcher or data within the European Research Area (ERA). The project is a direct result of  the CESSDA RI being identified by the ESFRI Roadmap exercise as a research network of excellence. [more...]

Completed Projects

Madiera

The Madiera project (Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research Area), completed in 2006, provided a common integrated interface to the resources of the majority of the social science data archives in Europe. The project was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. [more...]

Metadater

The objective of Metadater (Metadata Management and Production System for Surveys in Empirical Socio-Economic Research, 2003-2006) was to develop a comprehensive data model for comparative surveys and  tools for metadata management in survey research. Metadater was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. [more...]

FASTER

This two year project (2000-2001) builded on Nesstar technology and aimed at providing flexible access to statistics, tables and electronic resources held at social science data archives and other data publishers.

NESSTAR

NESSTAR, Networked Social Science Tools and Resources, was funded during 1998-2000 by DGXIII of the European Commission under the 4th Framework Telematics Applications Program. The aim of the project was to bring the advantages of the Web to the world of statistical data dissemination. Today, Nesstar is a software system for data publishing and online analysis.

LIMBER

The goal of the LIMBER project (Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources, 2000-2001) was to facilitate cross-European data analysis independent of domain, resource, language and vocabulary. The main output of this EU (European Union) IST (Information Societies Technology) funded project was the multi-lingual ELSST thesaurus.

 

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