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ESDS and the wider world Kevin Sch ü rer, Director, ESDS/UKDA. CESSDA – the Council of European Social Science Data Archives. CESSDA projects. MADIERA all key CESSDA empirical data available on-line
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CESSDA – the Council of European Social Science Data Archives
CESSDA projects • MADIERA • all key CESSDA empirical data available on-line • an integrated resource discovery gateway in order to identify and locate relevant resources (including the relevant tools to overcome the language barriers) • extensive amounts of metadata available (including hyperlinks from the metadata to relevant reports and publications) • the ability to carry out simple browsing, visualisation and analysis of the data on-line • MetaDater • develop a comprehensive data model and tools for metadata management in survey research • support technical harmonization and integration of survey data from many different sources • establish standards for the description and metadata management of large scale comparative surveys over space and time
ICPSR – North America • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research • UKDA is the UK national member of the Consortium • UKDA member of ICPSR Council • DDI – Data Documentation Initiative
International standing • Russia - Goskomstat – Russia • Kyrgyzstan – Ministry of Economic Development • Netherlands – NIWI • Australia – ASSDA • Canada • IASSIST officers
Closer to home • ESRC • joined-up portfolio (eg Qb, ULSC, Census) • implementation of Datasets Policy • Information Strategy • e-Science • JISC • Development Strategy Group • interoperability standards • Digital Curation Centre • Digital Preservation Coalition, NA/PRO • RSS • Government Departments