AUSSDA is proud to be a partner in the DataverseEU project, which will make our archive more user friendly. Dataverse installations can be found worldwide and programmers from all over the world are constantly further developing the open source software under American supervision. CESSDA ERIC (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) will host a Dataverse Installation on its cloud, allowing usage to CESSDA members. It can be used to complement existing archive structures or as initial solution for new or small archives.
Experts from numerous social science data archives, led by Marion Wittenberg of the Dutch data archive DANS, met in Vienna to discuss common requirements for Dataverse. Committed Staff members from Slovenia, Hungary, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands established a work plan to develop certain services, such as a multilingual user interface (at the moment the AUSSDA Dataverse is available exclusively in English).
Not only the users but also the AUSSDA team will benefit from improved functionalities like an API for the CESSDA Topic Classification and the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST). The changes that were mentioned above will be developed and tested throughout the year.
