CESSDA DataverseEU project

One of the projects for 2018 within the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) is the DataverseEU project. The aim of the project is to develop a service for CESSDA Service Providers, based on the Dataverse software developed by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University, which would be adjusted to the needs of the CESSDA community, especially small and/or emerging archives. To fulfill this, additional functionalities of the Dataverse software are planned to be developed within the project. Project activities in 2018 include the installation of the software using a Docker container on the CESSDA cloud platform, the enhancement of the system to enable connection with a chosen persistent identifier (PID) provider, the development of an API for the CESSDA controlled vocabularies, topic classification, European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST), and the development of a multilingual user interface. Activities in 2019 are aiming to expand the metadata fields towards the DDI lifecycle, to develop different interfaces for national long-term preservation solutions and more. Project partners are: Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov -- ADP), Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA), Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS -- the Netherlands), GESIS -- Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany), Swedish National Data Service (SND), and The Tárki Data Archive (Hungary). The presentation will focus on the ideas behind the project and the initial project results