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IASSIST16 - CESSDA sets the stage for the data infrastructure of the future
The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) was presented at several sessions of the IASSIST2016 conference held in Bergen, from 31 May to 3 June 2016. The principal session was the plenary session, “CESSDA sets the stage for the data infrastructure of the future”, held on 2 June.
New report on metadata practices - Standards, controlled vocabularies and requirements for the CESSDA Portfolio
CESSDA's Metadata Management (CMM) project has released its first report today, entitled CESSDA Service Providers’ Metadata Practices.
CESSDA lays the technical foundations for a pan-European social science data research infrastructure
Phase 1 of the Technical Framework project has recently been completed. It ran from October 2015 to April 2016 and was intended to build the foundations that the various components of the CESSDA Research Infrastructure (such as a Products and Services Catalogue) will sit on.
New General Data Protection Regulation Adopted - Summary from the Big Data Europe webinar
The second Big Data Europe Societal Challenge 6 webinar was held on 25 May 2016 and a summary has been prepared in the framework of the project.
New website for the CESSDA SaW project comes online
A new dedicated website for our project "CESSDA SaW - Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives" is now online.
New staff join the Research Infrastructure CESSDA
In April 2016, two new staff members joined the CESSDA main office in Bergen.