CESSDA SaW D5.1: Benchmarking report, including an action plan for improvements on an inter - consortium and individual archive level

The aim of D5.1 is to benchmark, using a set of indicators produced in D3.1 and serving as the basis for a comparison between CESSDA and an “industry best” or “gold standard” organisation. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is taken as the gold standard and has been used as a benchmark organisation for CESSDA. D5.1 contains analysis of differences and a breakdown of actions that should be taken to bring CESSDA up to the level of the gold standard.