Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the CESSDA research infrastructure (CESSDA PPP)
1 January 2008 - 31 December 2009
This project arises as a direct result of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure (RI) being identified by the European Strategy For... |
Source to Output Repositories (StORe)
1 June 2005 - 31 May 2008
The project aims to provide use cases, guidelines and tools for the integration of data archives with repositories of research publications. The UKDA will lead two work packages deliv... |
Evaluation of a digital transcription of English parochial registers, 1538-1851: a pilot study
1 April 2007 - 31 March 2008
 The recent explosion of interest in genealogical research has led to a vast quantity of digital resource material being made available to Higher Education. The Genealogical So... |
Data Exchange Tools and Conversion Utilities (DExT)
1 November 2006 - 31 March 2008
 This project will explore the feasibility of developing data exchange models and data conversion tools for primary research data collected in the course of empirical research. It will deve... |
Social Science Scoping Study (4S)
1 January 2007 - 31 May 2007
 On behalf of the ESRC and the National Archives (TNA) the UKDA is carrying out a scoping study assessing the potential for development of social scientific research materials based on public ... |
Online Historical Population Reports Project (OHPR)
1 April 2004 - 31 March 2007
The aim of this AHDS History project is to develop a web-based user interface allowing browsing, searching, viewing and downloading images of historical population reports. The interf... |
Qualitative Demonstrator Scheme Co-ordination (QUADS Co-ordination)
1 April 2005 - 30 September 2006
QUADS Co-ordination will play a pivotal role in fostering communication and understanding between the ESRC Qualitative Demonstrator Scheme (QUADS) projects. It aims to facilitate commu... |
Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community Tools for Data Mark-Up (SQUAD)
1 March 2005 - 31 August 2006
This is a demonstrator project funded under the ESRC Qualitative Demonstrator Scheme (QUADS). It will explore methodological and technical solutions for exposing digital qualitative da... |
Census Registration Service (CRS)
1 August 2001 - 31 July 2006
The Census Registration Service was established at the UK Data Archive in August 2001, with its first year being devoted to consultation and development.
The service was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Inform... |
Shibboleth Authentication for Access to the Resource Infrastructures of the UKDA (SAFARI UKDA)
21 March 2005 - 20 March 2006
The central aim of the project was to apply Shibboleth middleware to some of the resources that make use of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)/Census Registration Service (CRS) one-stop registration system (hosted by the UKDA). The project a... |
Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research Area (MADIERA)
1 December 2002 - 28 February 2006
The overall goal of the MADIERA project is to develop an effective infrastructure for the European social science community by integrating data with other tools, resources and products of the research process. By the end of the project a fully operat... |
Victorian Panel Study (VPS)
1 July 2004 - 1 January 2006
This pilot study investigated both the practical and methodological considerations for creating a nationally representative longitudinal database of individuals and households for the period 1851 to 1901, drawn mainly from population census and civil... |
Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Data Support Service - phase one
1 January 2005 - 31 December 2005
The primary objective of the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU)
Data Support Service (DSS) is to ensure that all data management activities
are carried out effectively withi... |
Metadata Management and Production System for Surveys in Empirical Socio-economic Research (MetaDater)
1 December 2002 - 30 November 2005
Overarching objectives of the MetaDater project are:
to develop standards for the description of large scale comparative surveys over space and time; and
to provide tools for metadata creation and management for such surveys.
In order to achiev... |
Assessment of UKDA and The National Archives (TNA) compliance with Open Archival Information System/Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (OAIS/METS)
1 November 2004 - 1 May 2005
 The UK Data Archive (UKDA) and The National Archive (TNA) have long-established responsibilities for digital preservation of materials created on electronic media. Each... |
Digital Archives Regional Pilot
1 August 2004 - 31 March 2005
This was a test-bed digital preservation project, on a small scale, using Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire as case studies. The UK Data Archive provided the technical and metadata c... |
Joint Information Systems Committee Exchange for Learning Project (JISC X4L)
1 January 2003 - 16 October 2004
The X4L project aims to build, pilot and document the evaluation of a set of data-based resources for use in teaching in political science courses at the HE and FE levels. The resources wi... |
Geo-spatial Metadata Promotion Initiative
1 August 2003 - 31 July 2004
The aim of this initiative was to introduce the concept of geo-spatial metadata to the UK academic community. The objective was to promote and encourage metadata creation. A series of workshops were organised to present the HE/FE Metadata Application... |
GeoXwalk Gazetteer Project (Phase 3)
1 August 2003 - 31 July 2004
The Gazetteer will support online geographic searching and assist in the geographic indexing of information resources.The geoXwalk project saw the continued development of the geo-spatial gazetteer and geo-parser. An investigation was also undertaken... |
Go-Geo! The Geo-Data Portal Project (Phase 3)
1 August 2003 - 31 July 2004
The aim of the Geo-Data Portal was to develop a resource discovery tool that allows for the identification and retrieval of metadata describing the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of geo-spatial data.... |
Accompanying Measure to Research and Development in Official Statistics (AMRADS)
1 January 2001 - 31 December 2003
The AMRADS project was an accompanying measure to CPA 8 of the Information Society Programme. It was designed to create the conditions for facilitating technology and know-how transfer of the results of research projects of the European Programme of ... |
Developing the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data and Related Materials (CHCC) into a Major Learning and Teaching Resource
1 October 2000 - 30 September 2003
The central aim of the project is to increase use of the CHCC in learning and teaching by:
improving accessibility to the primary data resources;
developing an integrated set of learning and teaching materials;
improving awareness about the con... |
Cluster Of Systems of Metadata for Official Statistics (COSMOS)
1 September 2001 - 31 August 2003
COSMOS is an accompanying measure (Cluster) of five projects of the European Union Framework 5 research programme. It has the following objectives:
to build better metadata repositories by exchanging ideas and experiences in using metadata systems ... |
Go-Geo! The Geo-Data Portal Project (Phase 2)
1 May 2002 - 30 June 2003
The aim of the Geo-Data Portal is to develop a resource discovery tool that allows for the identification and retrieval of metadata describing the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of geo-spatial data.... |
GeoXwalk Gazetteer Project (Phase 2)
1 May 2002 - 30 June 2003
The Gazetteer will support online geographic searching and assist in the geographic indexing of information resources.The geoXwalk project successfully developed and evaluated a demonstrator geo-spatial gazetteer and geoparser. The project will now u... |
MetaNet
1 November 2000 - 31 May 2003
MetaNet, a network of excellence for harmonising and synthesising the development of statistical metadata, aimed:
to develop proposals for standards in the methodology used for describing statistical metadata and statistical information systems;
... |
Flexible Access to Statistics, Tables and Electronic Resources (FASTER)
1 January 2000 - 1 April 2002
FASTER was designed to create a flexible and intelligent presentation system for access to statistical and other data in a distributed 'virtual' environment. The project brought together content management and personalisation technologies with the re... |
Using Numeric Datasets in Learning and Teaching
1 February 2000 - 30 September 2001
The Edinburgh University Data Library, EDINA, the UK Data Archive, MIMAS, and the British Library of Political and Economic Science have completed a JISC-funded project to uncover the barriers to using numeric data in learning and teaching... |
Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources (LIMBER)
1 January 2000 - 30 June 2001
LIMBER will develop a multilingual user interface to the data stored in social science archives across Europe. It will initially encompass the five national archives of Germany, Gree... |
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