A new Data Publisher for the SSH community

A data publisher for Social Science and Humanities is under development. In 2018 a consortium of currently three partners started the development of a new tool to support researcher and data providers.

The software will not be developed for a special institution. The goal is to build a generalized tool that will cover the main needs of a wider community. For example by providing a main component coffering the general functionality needed. In addition special modules will be developed for special demands. Those modules need to be developed alongside with partners defining those special demands.

Some of the main features are: a modern responsive design, supporting modern standards and multilinguality. Frameworks and libraries used should be stable, well tested, open source and widely used. The software should support extensibility through plugins both in frontend and backend. Import formats for the portal should support outputs from Nesstar publisher (DDI Codebook 1.2.2), CESSDA (CMM), SPSS, Stata, SAS, various CAPI/CATI software. Export functionalities will cover at least DDI 3.2 and 3.3. The requirements for running the portal should be kept as simple as possible and rely only on free software.

The presentation will give an overview on planned features, service and support; and may also open up the possibility to widen the current consortium.