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.
- Brislinger, Evelyn, Emile de Nijs Bik, Karoline Harzenetter, Kristina Hauser, Jara Kampmann, Dafina Kurti, Ruud Luijk, Verena Ortmanns, Josja Rokven, Inge Sieben, Ivet Solanes Ros, Kirsten Stam, Steve van de Weijer, Eva van Vlimmeren, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2011. European Values Study 2008: project and data management. GESIS Technical Reports 2011/14. Mannheim: GESIS. http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/forschung/publikationen/gesis_reihen/gesis_methodenberichte/2011/TechnicalReport_2011-14.pdf.
- Hausstein, Brigitte, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Anja Wilde, and Natalija Schleinstein. 2011. da|ra Metadatenschema Version 1.0. GESIS Working Papers 2011/14. Mannheim: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/10.mdsdoc.1.0. urn: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-282661.
- Kramer, Stefan, Randy Banks, Vicky Chang, Ingo Sieber, Mary Vardigan, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2011. Presenting longitudinal studies to end users effectively using DDI metadata. DDI Working Paper Series Longitudinal Best Practice No. 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.3886/DDILongitudinal04. http://www.ddialliance.org/resources/publications/working/BestPractices/LongitudinalData/PresentingLongitudinalStudiesUsingDDIMetadata.pdf.
- Zenk-Möltgen, Wolfgang. 2011. "Metadaten und die Data Documentation Inititive (DDI)." Frankfurt/Main.
- Hausstein, Brigitte, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2011. "da|ra - The German registration portal for social and economic data." IASSIST 2011 “Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing”. http://www.iassistdata.org/conferences/2011/presentation/2916.