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The importance of being ERIC Developments in cross-European data sharing

The importance of being ERIC Developments in cross-European data sharing. A short history…. 1970’s - CESSDA was founded 2006 - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) identified the need for better access to data for SSH: CESSDA identified as a SSH infrastructure

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The importance of being ERIC Developments in cross-European data sharing

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  1. The importance of being ERIC Developments in cross-European data sharing

  2. A short history… • 1970’s - CESSDA was founded • 2006 - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) identified the need for better access to data for SSH: CESSDA identified as a SSH infrastructure • 2008 – 2.7 million euro award to CESSDA PPP • 2010 – Signing the MoU • 2010 – CESSDA ERIC Steering Committe

  3. What is CESSDA? • It is an informal group of 20 European organisations • Its members are differentially funded • More than 30 years of successful voluntarily based cooperation • In 2010, they jointly held over 25000 datasets • Members have a common mission…

  4. CESSDA mission • Provide better, enhanced knowledge of and access to wider range of social science data • Improve researcher/learner experience • Enable quality research / training • Maximise return on stakeholder investment • Enhance transfer of skills, knowledge

  5. Austria Denmark Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland CESSDA membership - current • Italy • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Norway • Romania • Slovenia • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • UK

  6. The CESSDA ERIC • Legal entity • Governance Structure • Central co-ordinating body • Sustainable funding

  7. Fully integrated data infrastructure • Integrated resource discovery tools • Multilingual searching • Integrated common Authentication & Access • Single sign-on • Single access protocols • Extensible system • nationally & internationally

  8. ERIC – centre of excellence • Certification/auditing • Professionalisation • Training • Knowledge Transfer • Mobility • Standards development

  9. Obligations of Service providers - 1 • be fully compliant with the elements of the DDI metadata standard that are required to enable the member to contribute fully to CESSDA-ERIC activities and which will be identified by the CESSDA-ERIC • adopt and apply the CESSDA-ERIC common single sign-on user authentication system; • enable the harvesting of all their resource discovery metadata and relevant preservation metadata for inclusion in the CESSDA-ERIC data portal; • make their data holdings downloadable through common data gateways; • make sure that their local language(s) within the multi-lingual thesaurus are maintained; • share their data archiving tools (under the IP conditions set in Intellectual Property Rights annex to these statues); • adhere to the principles of the OAIS reference model and any agreed CESSDA-ERIC requirements for operating trusted data repositories;

  10. Obligations of Service providers - 2 • contribute to the CESSDA-ERIC's cross national data harmonisation activities; • contribute material and/or expertise to the cross-national question bank; • provide mentor support for CESSDA-ERIC Associate Members and their representative Service Providers to achieve Full Membership; • provide member support for countries with immature and fragile national infrastructures to help them build up needed competence later to be able to fulfil tasks as Associated or Full Member; • facilitate access to national government and research funded micro data, dependent on national legal systems; • adhere to the CESSDA-ERIC’s Data Access and Dissemination Policy; • adhere to the provisions the entire Organisation’s policies as required.

  11. Recent developments • Data without boundaries project starts May 2011 • DASISH project evaluated

  12. For more information about CESSDA:http://www.cessda.org/& about the CESSDA PPP project:http://www.cessda.org/project/

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