Digital preservation seeks to ensure that research data can be discovered, accessed, used, and understood – now and in the future. This requires that we address technological change, changing user behavior and new requirements on the computer-aided processing of research data as well as evolving organisational frameworks (e.g. national and international research data infrastructures).
To meet these challenges, GESIS focuses on these topics with research informed by both social and information sciences questions and methods. This includes research on strategies to preserve the authenticity, integrity and interpretability of data, cost (planning) models, certification procedures, standards and their application (e.g. OAIS Reference Model, PAIMAS, PREMIS) as well as technological and organisational aspects of digital preservation.
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- Akdeniz, Esra, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2017. "Practical implementations of the DDILimDAS results at the GESIS Data Archive." EDDI17 – 9th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2017-12-05.
- Hashemi, Azadeh, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, and Alexander Mühlbauer. 2017. "Progress with the CESSDA Euro Question Bank Project." EDDI17 – 9th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2017-12-05.
- Askitas, Nikos, Denise Bloch, Stefan Buerli, Uwe Jensen, Jon Johnson, Mari Kleemola, Brian Kleiner, Mikko Saloila, Monika Vettovaglia, Joachim Wackerow, Knut Wenzig, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2017. "EDDI17 – 9th Annual European DDI User Conference: Co-chairs Jon Johnson and Joachim Wackerow." FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, Lausanne, 2017-12-05 - 2017-12-06. https://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi-2017/.
- Koch, Ute, Esra Akdeniz, Jana Meichsner, Brigitte Hausstein, and Karoline Harzenetter. 2017. da|ra Metadata Schema: Documentation for the Publication and Citation of Social and Economic Data. Version 4.0. GESIS Papers 2017/25. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/10.mdsdoc.4.0.