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44 Years with Iris Alfredsson
Mon 19 May 2025

44 Years with Iris Alfredsson

It’s 1981. The first space shuttle, IBM computer, and MTV have just launched. Beyoncé was born, Roger Moore saved the world once again as James Bond, and Iris Alfredsson started working for the Swedish Social Science Data Service.

CESSDA and I4NG release free online training course
Thu 15 May 2025

CESSDA and I4NG release free online training course

CESSDA has delivered the first of four online training courses to the Infra4NextGen project. The hour-long training course is primarily aimed at social scientists, but scholars and researchers from other fields may also find it useful, as the principles and workflows presented can be applied across various disciplines.

Slovenia as regional partner in the Research Data Alliance
Wed 7 May 2025

Slovenia as regional partner in the Research Data Alliance

Slovenia has recently become a regional partner of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), represented by CESSDA’s Service Provider Social Science Data Archives (ADP) at the University of Ljubljana.

FIDELIS Network Launched to Support Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Wed 30 Apr 2025

FIDELIS Network Launched to Support Trustworthy Digital Repositories

The FIDELIS project has officially launched the FIDELIS Network, a new initiative aimed at supporting digital repositories across Europe in becoming and remaining trustworthy and FAIR-enabling over time. The network welcomes repositories that either practice or aspire to practice TRUST-worthy, FAIR-aligned data management approaches.

New CESSDA Data Citation Guide published
Mon 28 Apr 2025

New CESSDA Data Citation Guide published

Research data are valuable scientific outputs that deserve proper recognition. Citing data as independent research products ensures transparency, fosters open science, and aligns with good scholarly practices. To support this, CESSDA has published a new guide for data citations.

I4NG releases new CRONOS-3 panel survey data
Fri 25 Apr 2025

I4NG releases new CRONOS-3 panel survey data

Data from the first two waves of the web-first panel survey (CRONOS-3) – implemented as part of the Infra4NextGen project – is now available, both for download and presented in interactive maps and graphs.