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In this exploratory study, the authors observe the information-seeking behaviour of social scientists searching for research data to reveal impediments and identify opportunities for data search infrastructure. Besides the topical relevance, access to detailed metadata is crucial during dataset search. Krämer, T., Papenmeier, A., Carevic, Z. et al. Data-Seeking Behaviour in the Social Sciences. …

Research data in the social, educational, behavioral and economic sciences are distributed in a decentralized manner in research data centers (FDZ). To make them accessible to researchers, many FDZs ensure findability through our DOI registration service da|ra . Search the FDZ inventory via KonsortSWD . The search facility is powered by da|ra.

The maintenance of the discovery service "gesisDataSearch", implemented by GESIS in 2017, is discontinued. Although the site is still accessible there will not be any technical updates. The metadata harvested from social science research data collections is no longer monitored, and quality assured. The GESIS department "Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences" (WTS) will use the indexing …

Schema.org is a collaborative, community effort aiming to increase the interoperability of computer systems by creating, maintaining, and promoting schemas for structured data on the Internet. On the Web, the schema.org vocabulary allows the structured annotation of different entity types such a people, products and events. In da|ra, we have been using schema.org to annotate all dataset type …

Search datasets worldwide gesisDataSearch is the BETA version of a discovery service based on up-to-date metadata that are harvested from social science research data collections worldwide. It allows users to: find collections of social science data quickly and easily, irrespective of their origin get quick overviews of available data search and browse through collections using standardized …