CESSDA PPP FP7 Project

A dedicated work package on extending the coverage of the CESSDA RI and fostering the development of national data archiving initiatives in those countries which are not currently part of the CESSDA network develops a startegic and operational plan to widen the CESSDA RI' activities. This work builds upon the experiences gained in the framework of the EDAN network ... more

The East European Data Archive Network - EDAN

The East European Data Archive Network (EDAN) was established during the UNESCO Workshop on Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe 2002. EDAN acts as an informal network designed to support data archives which are at an early stage of their existence and share common problems as well as to make sure that the Eastern European data archives will catch up with the advanced western data archives. The EDAN is not intended to replace or substitute the already existing networks IFDO and CESSDA. For those archives, which were not formal members of CESSDA the EDAN serve as a good organizational framework to coordinate efforts for setting up the archive. The GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe/Data Archive as the German member of EDAN serves as the coordinator of all activities concerning the network.

Contact: Brigitte Hausstein, Servicestelle Osteuropa, Berlin, Tel. +49 (0)30-233 611 -314, E-Mail

EDAN Membership

TARKI Budapest, Hungary
ESSDA (Estonian Social Sciences Data Bank) University of Tartu, Estonia
LSZDA (Latvian Databank of Social Sciences) Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia
DBSR (Bank of Social Data) Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Russian Sociological Data Archive, Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP), Moscow, Russia
SDA Sociological Data Archive Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
ADP (Slovenian Social Science Data Archive), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Social Science Data Archive at REGLO, Sofia, Bulgaria
IS BAS, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
RODA, Romanian Social Science Data Archive, Bucharest
SASD, Slovak Archive of Social Data, Bratislava
ADS (Archive of Sociological Data), Warsaw University, Poland
LiDA, Lithuania
GESIS (Berlin), Germany
KIIS, Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine
Ukrainian Sociological Archive of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine
CPIJM, Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, University of Belgrad, Yugoslavia
CRPM, Center for Research and Policy Making, Skopje, Macedonia

To join EDAN please, contact Brigitte Hausstein

Widening CESSDA (Work package in the project CESSDA PPP)

The CESSDA PPP aims at developing the CESSDA research infrastructure (RI), and is a direct result of the CESSDA RI being identified by the ESFRI Roadmap exercise as a research network of excellence.

The aim of the project is to plan the future development of the CESSDA RI and focus on tackling and resolving a number of strategic, financial and legal issues in order to ensure that European social science and humanities (SSH) researchers have access to, and gain support for, the data resources they require to conduct research of the highest quality, irrespective of the location of either researcher or data within the European Research Area (ERA).

The project consists of several interlinked yet individually focused work packages, including work on developing the data portal to allow seamless access to data holdings across Europe, developing common authentication and access middleware tools, developing metadata standards, creating thesauri management tools, strengthening the CESSDA RI, investigating the potential of grid technologies, and improving data harmonisation tools.

The research will be led by Professor Kevin Schürer, Director of the UKDA, who is the Co-ordinator for the project.

UNESCO Workshop on Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe 2002

The workshop "Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe – Results, Potentials and Prospects of the Archival Development" supported by UNESCO/MOST Programme and the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS) was held in Berlin on 22-24 February, 2002.

The workshop brought together representatives of the existing or emerging data archives in Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania and Slovakia as well as researchers who are involved in data archiving initiatives in Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Additionally, representatives from the Swedish, Finish, Australian and German Data Archive shared their experience.

Publication:

Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe.
Results, Potentials and Prospects of the Archival Development.
Brigitte Hausstein and Paul de Guchteneire (Eds.)
Ferger Verlag. Berlin, Cologne, Paris 2002. 236 pages, ISBN 3-931219-17-8, EUR 25,00

This book is the outcome of the workshop on social science data archives in Eastern Europe that took place in Berlin from 22-24th February 2002.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of data archiving in Eastern Europe since 1990. The first part of the volume includes the country reports from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia describing the development of empirical social science research after 1990 and assessing the potential for establishing a national social science data archive in the respective country. The data archive progress reports from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary are presented in the second part of the book.

Access: via pdf-file - via the Knowledge Base Eastern Europe.- Order the book