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Given the fact that various services, such as archives, libraries, university data repositories or research data centers, are providing nationally and internationally distributed, heterogeneous databases, the question increasingly arises how data can be described and found in the context of various disciplines as well as in the social science context.

In the framework of the topic "Interoperable Metadata", GESIS is exploring how existing metadata standards (e.g. DDI, Dublin Core, DataCite, da|ra) can be used to develop networked infrastructures for finding research data. For this purpose, it is necessary that the metadata in the different systems can be mapped to one another, that means that they are compatible with one another. First results, such as the use of the metadata of the GESIS Dataset Catalog (DBK) in the B2Find (EUDAT)catalog as well as the OpenAire system, show how these networked catalogs enable the integrated search of research data from different scientific disciplines.

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  • Gregory, Arofan, Joachim Wackerow, Wendy Thomas, Barry Radler, Daniel Gillman, Mary Vardigan, and Jay Greenfield. 2015. "DDI Moving Forward: Progress on a new model-based DDI." IASSIST Conference 2015. http://iassist2015.pop.umn.edu/program/block7#a1.
  • Cyganiak, Richard, Arofan Gregory, Wendy Thomas, and Joachim Wackerow. 2012. "Workshop: Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Linked Data Web." Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Munich, 2012-10-14 - 2012-10-19. http://www.dagstuhl.de/12422.
  • Cyganiak, Richard, Arofan Gregory, Wendy Thomas, and Joachim Wackerow. 2011. "Workshop: Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Web." Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Munich, 2011-09-11 - 2011-09-16. http://www.dagstuhl.de/11372.
  • Gregory, Arofan, Wendy Thomas, and Joachim Wackerow. 2011. "Workshop: DDI: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data - Best Practices." Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Munich, 2011-09-18 - 2011-09-23. http://www.dagstuhl.de/11382.
  • Gregory, Arofan, Wendy Thomas, Mary Vardigan, and Joachim Wackerow. 2012. "Workshop: DDI Lifecycle: Moving Forward." Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Munich, 2012-10-21 - 2012-10-26. https://www.dagstuhl.de/12432.