Project Archive
Completed projects or projects that have become permanent services are listed here.
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With the help of project funding, new solutions and services have been explored and tried out, and already proven services or functions strengthened and developed
Projects are listed in alphabetical order.
Active FSD for CESSDA: New European Services for Researchers
This project allows FSD to focus on meeting the requirements set by CESSDA, as well as actively taking part in development work within the research infrastructure. FSD will have an active role in designing services that CESSDA will offer to European researchers in the future and ensures that its own services are in line with European and international standards.
The funding by the Research Council of Finland (formerly the Academy of Finland) is based on the proposal submitted in the FIRI 2016 call for research infrastructures based on state memberships.
Funding period: 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Collaborative Data Management (RDM)
The project developed services focusing on research data management and aimed to create a single online module on research data management for European researchers. The module is designed to teach researchers basic data management knowledge and skills, and address the needs of a wide range of researchers. The module has been available for researchers since the beginning of 2018.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2017
CESSDA CV Manager
Controlled vocabularies form a crucial part of CESSDA metadata standard. Their use enhances targeted data discovery in the CESSDA Product and Services Catalogue and in the Euro Question Bank. The project developed an open source tool that allows vocabulary creation, translation and maintenance. A search interface for general users facilitates access to the vocabularies. As CESSDA uses DDI vocabularies whenever possible, the tool is used to manage both CESSDA and DDI vocabularies. A joint tool speeds up vocabulary creation and removes the need to maintain vocabularies in two places.
Funding period: 1 January 2017 – 30 September 2018
CESSDA Development of Metadata Aggregator
The project developed an OAI-based aggregator that collects and combines metadata of CESSDA archives. The development work built on the Kuha2 software previously developed by FSD.
Funding period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021
CESSDA ELSST
FSD participates in the steering group of the multilingual thesaurus ELSST that develops the contents of the thesaurus.
Funding period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Enhanced Research Data Management and Data Discovery Training (ERDM)
The project developed services focusing on research data management and developed CESSDA's online module on research data management for European researchers. The module is designed to teach researchers basic data management knowledge and skills, and address the needs of a wide range of researchers.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2019
CESSDA Euro Question Bank
The project aimed to develop and implement the Euro Question Bank (EQB), a central search facility across all CESSDA’s holdings. National service providers contributed documentation on questions in their holdings to the EQB. The question bank allows users to browse questions used in surveys in different languages in a number of countries, providing enhanced opportunities for question design, question translation and cross-national research.
Funding period: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2019
CESSDA Euro Question Bank 2020
The Euro Question Bank project developed a question bank where users can find questions in survey data from all CESSDA organisations. The project was continuation of the previous EQB projects and carried on the development of the question bank and its user interface. In 2020, the project focused on bringing more content into EQB and including more formats.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2020
Expanding and Equipping FSD as a National Service Provider for CESSDA (3E)
The project aimed to strengthen FSD’s capacity and competence to serve the new CESSDA, and to provide the Finnish research community with new services.
Funding period: 1 February 2015 – 31 December 2017
CESSDA Journals Outreach
More and more academic journals are requiring the deposit of the data used in publications. The goal of the project is to inform and persuade journals that they can rely on CESSDA service providers for the deposit and sharing of data and replication files used in publications, rather than try to establish repositories themselves.
Funding period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Metadata Management (CMM)
This European project was part of the CESSDA Work Plan Task programme and its objective was to develop a standardised metadata design and practice for CESSDA. The project produced a Metadata Standards Portfolio that supports resource discovery and question banks. The project was led by FSD and the partners included ADP, CASD, DDA, GESIS, NSD, SND and UKDS.
Funding period: 1 November 2015 – 30 April 2017
CESSDA Metadata Management Phase 2 (CMM2)
In the first phase of the CMM project, led by FSD, a metadata model and controlled variables were developed for CESSDA. In the second phase, the model and vocabularies were further developed, and user guidelines created.
The metadata model developed in the project will eventually be available to all CESSDA service providers. Common metadata practices support the development of joint European services, such as the data catalogue and question bank.
In addition to FSD, participants in the CMM2 project included CESSDA service providers from Belgium, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Slovenia and Denmark.
Funding period: 1 May 2016 – 31 December 2018
CESSDA Metadata Office
The project maintained and managed the CESSDA core metadata model, controlled vocabularies and multilingual thesaurus ELSST.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2020
CESSDA Metadata Office
The project updates and promotes the CESSDA metadata model and other MDO outputs to service providers and other partners.
Funding period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Open Source Metadata Harvesting (OSMH)
The project developed a metadata harvesting solution for the purpose of developing CESSDA's joint European data catalogue, among others.
Funding period: 15 November 2015 – 15 June 2016
CESSDA Plan for CDC Upgrade
The project planned and developed new features in the CESSDA Data Catalogue (Opens in a new tab) .
1 January 2021 – 31 March 2022
CESSDA PPP
FSD participated in the CESSDA project "Preparatory Phase Project for a Major Upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure" in 2008–2010.
Ended: 2010
CESSDA Products and Services Catalogue Phase 2 (PaSC)
The aim of the PaSC project was to develop a central one-stop-shop for search/discovery of micro data sets from the holdings of CESSDA service providers. The goal was to make data sets easier to find by collecting metadata in a single service. The PaSC does not hold any data, or itself provide direct access to data but directs researchers to the source/service where the data may be obtained or analysed. The project was led by UKDS. Phase 2 produced the first version of the Catalogue.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2017
CESSDA Products and Services Catalogue Phase 3 (PaSC)
The aim of the PaSC project was to develop functionalities and usability of CESSDA's central search/discovery service for micro data sets from the holdings of CESSDA service providers. The goal was to make data sets easier to find by collecting metadata in a single service. The PaSC does not hold any data, or itself provide direct access to data but directs researchers to the source/service where the data may be obtained or analysed. The project was led by UKDS.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2018
CESSDA SaW
The aim was to achieve full European coverage, to strengthen the CESSDA network and to ensure sustainability of its data for the widened network. The primary ambition was to establish the conditions for a seamless social science data archive service for the whole of the European Research Area (ERA), capable of supporting the research needs of the next generation of social scientists wherever in Europe they may be, or beyond.
CESSDA SaW had ten project partners and twelve Service Providers were involved in the project via CESSDA AS as linked third parties. This also included the FSD. The project was funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Funding period: 1 August 2015 – 31 July 2017
CESSDA Technical Framework, Phase 3
CESSDA Technical Working Group (TWG) builds up the IT practices of CESSDA and supports the development of the technical infrastructure. The project was led by UKDS.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2017
CESSDA Technical Framework, Phase 4
CESSDA Technical Working Group (TWG) builds up the IT practices of CESSDA and supports the development of the technical infrastructure. The project was led by UKDS.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2018
CESSDA Technical Framework, Phase 5
CESSDA Technical Working Group (TWG) builds up the IT practices of CESSDA and supports the development of the technical infrastructure. The project was led by UK Data Service.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2019
CESSDA Technical Framework, Phase 6
CESSDA Technical Working Group (TWG) builds up the IT practices of CESSDA and supports the development of the technical infrastructure. The project was led by UK Data Service.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2020
CESSDA Training events
Training Events plans and organizes training for European researchers on various topics, such as research trends and analysis methods. Training Events works in close cooperation with other CESSDA working groups.
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Trust Activities 2020
The Trust Activities project provided support and training for Service Providers to acquire the CoreTrustSeal certification, and worked on aligning certification evidence for CESSDA SPs. The Trust Activities project worked in close cooperation with other CESSDA projects and working groups as well as other research infrastructures.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2020
CESSDA Trust activities 2021-2022
Trust Activities supports CESSDA service providers in CoreTrustSeal certification. Trust Activities works in close cooperation with other CESSDA working groups and projects as well as other research infrastructures.
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
CESSDA Trust Working Group 2018
A key principle of CESSDA is trust, and its service providers are required to apply for CoreTrustSeal. Trust Working Group guided and supported data archives in obtaining the certificate and monitored the fulfilment of requirements set for CESSDA service providers.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2018
CESSDA Trust Working Group 2020
The Trust Working Group supported data archives towards certification and monitored the fulfilment of trust criteria set for CESSDA Service Providers.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2020
CESSDA Vocabulary Services Multilingual Content Maintenance 1 (VOICE)
Vocabularies in CESSDA (VOICE) is a service to manage the multilingual content of CESSDA ERIC. The project updated the content and language versions of the multilingual thesaurus ELSST, and maintained the database and the software.
A CESSDA-wide policy for the creation and maintenance of multilingual content was defined. Best practice guidelines and training modules were created for controlled vocabularies used by CESSDA and for other multilingual content obtained from Service Providers.
Funding period: 1 January – 31 December 2018
CESSDA Widening of European Coverage
The goal of the project is to continue CESSDA widening into new member states and data types. Another goal is to strengthen cooperation with global partners.
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
DASISH
The three-year-project was funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (Opens in a new tab) . The goal was to determine areas of cross-fertilization and synergy in the development of the following five ESFRI research infrastructure initiative: CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS and SHARE.
Funding period: 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2014.
DwB – Data without Boundaries
The Data without Boundaries (DwB) project was created to support equal and easy access to official microdata for the European Research Area, within a structured framework where responsibilities and liability are equally shared. This four-year-project was funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (Opens in a new tab) .
Funding period: 1 May 2011 – 31 April 2015.
EOSC Future
EOSC Future is implementing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), a platform for open and FAIR data, resources and services for all scientific disciplines. The aim is to integrate existing data and services into one online environment and offer European researchers seamless access to interoperable services and resources for data management.
FSD participates in the project as a linked third party of CESSDA and as a member of the Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC). FSD takes part in a work package that will provide a common framework for a metadata model across the domains of life sciences and social sciences and humanities and to enhance findability and interoperability of data descriptions. The package will apply the framework to a use case linked to COVID-19 data.
The project is funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and coordinated by Athena Research Center.
Funding period: 1 April 2021 – 30 September 2023
EOSC-Nordic
The EOSC-Nordic project promoted the openness of research data in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The project aimed to facilitate the coordination of EOSC initiatives in the participating countries and to harmonise operational policies and services. The project was funded by Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation and coordinated by NeIC, the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration. FSD lead a work package on the FAIR principles of research data and best practices in data management.
Funding period: 1 September 2019 – 30 November 2022
FSD in CESSDA
Following a Research Infrastructures call (FIRI 2013), the Academy of Finland awarded the FSD funding for the project that aimed to develop the FSD's capacity and competence as a national data service. The project aimed to improve FSD services and functionalities to allow FSD act as a national service provider in the European-wide CESSDA research infrastructure.
Funding period: 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2015 (began in 2013)
Research Methods Web Resource (MOTV) Qualitative Methods Expansion
Ended: 2007
MADIERA
The MADIERA portal (Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research Area) was published in 2006. It was available at http://www.madiera.net/.
Ended: 2006
Making Nordic Health Data Visible
This Nordic project developed and supported practices for seamless and easier access to health-related data across national borders. Project outcome was a portal prototype for Nordic health data for research purposes, and enhanced visibility of Nordic research in the European context. The project was a collaboration between the Swedish National Data Service, the Danish Data Archive/the Danish National Archives, the Norwegian Social Science Data Services and the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. The project was funded by NordForsk.
Funding period: 1 October 2014 – 31 October 2016
Nordisk prosjekt for harmonisere personvernlovgivningen og praksis i forhold til forskningsbehov
Project period: 1 January – 31 December 2017
Party Agenda Database, POHTIVA
Ended: 2007
SSHOC
The project aimed to build cloud-based solutions for users of SSH data. The intention was to move from the current decentralised digital research infrastructure to an advanced cloud ecosystem. The new ecosystem planned to enable data sharing following the FAIR principles, development and provision of tools throughout research lifecycle, and training provision across different fields. FSD was closely involved in work packages focussing on data and metadata interoperability and trust and quality assurance.
The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, CESSDA, coordinated the SSHOC project, and 47 organisations participated in the work. The project was funded by Horizon 2020: the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
Funding period: 1 January 2019 – 30 April 2022
Suomi-Monitori
The Suomi-Monitori project aimed at developing an easy-to-use interface for accessing key survey data on societal participation, values and attitudes of the Finns, and changes over time in them. The service was projected to be versatile, completely open and allow online use of the data archived at Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), without requiring statistical skills. The actual data used in the service is based on the data already archived at the FSD. Target user groups include schoolchildren, students, journalists, decision-makers as well as ordinary citizens. The service is available in Finnish.
The project was associated with Ministry of Education and Culture's Open Science and Research Initiative (ATT) and was funded from Tieto käyttöön programme of the ATT.
Funding period: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2016
Supporting harvesting of DNA's metadata output with Kuha2 software into CESSDA Catalogue
FSD expanded the Kuha2 software to support data descriptions in DDI 3.1 format and enabled their transfer to CESSDA Data Catalogue.
The project was carried out in collaboration with the Danish Data Archive (DNA). FSD was responsible for developing the software used to converting the metadata, while DNA had the responsibility of testing the software and adding metadata.
Funding period: 1 January 2019 – 28 February 2019
Tietoarkisto 2015
Former "Tietoarkiston uudet palvelut – FSD Upgrade". Funded by the Academy of Finland (FIRI 2010).
Funding period: 9 December 2010 – 31 July 2015.
TRIPLE
The goal of the TRIPLE project was to increase the reuse of research data in the European social sciences and humanities across languages and disciplines as well as enhance the visibility and social impact of research in these fields. The project develop a multilingual and multicultural GoTriple platform to support research.
The project received funding from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 and was coordinated by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). As a linked third party of CESSDA, FSD was included in tasks that focused on machine learning training on subject classifications, comparison of existing humanities and social sciences vocabularies and classifications, possible mappings and creation of new vocabularies required, and consequent automated enrichment of data descriptions to improve discoverability.
Funding period: 1 October 2019 – 31 March 2023
VERIC – Meeting CESSDA ERIC Requirements
Following a Research Infrastructures call (FIRI 2012), the Academy of Finland awarded the FSD funding for a project that aimed to build metadata capture, storage and repurposing tools to support CESSDA ERIC membership and the FSD's general service provision. Another aim was to cooperate with Statistics Finland to enhance metadata interoperability. In addition, the project contributed to the CESSDA Trust Project.
Funding period: 14 December 2012 – 15 December 2014 (began in 2013).