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The Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group operates as an independent archive within the Research Documentation Centre. It contains numerous qualitative research materials of great importance for the history of sociology, from the last 60 years.
The Research Documentation Centre documents, archives and makes the researches conducted by Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) accessible for re-use. The curation proccess is conducted in close cooperation with the researchers.
Data management is an institutionally expected and supported task in the international research practice. Around the world in many research facilities, the comprehensive documentation of research data and the transparent data management is a part of the normal operation.
Latest news
The Research Documentation Centre (RDC) at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences (Budapest, Hungary) has participated with two talks at the 20th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Zagreb. Anna Horváth and Enikő Meiszterics presented on “The Conception and Development of Data Steward Training Programs in Hungary: The Roles of Collaboration, Necessity, Flexibility and Community-building”.
Summer School Archives x Data. Paper meets digital documentation
The Research Documentation Center (RDC) of the ELTE Center for Social Sciences Research participated in the 20th International Digital Curators Conference (IDCC) in Zagreb with two presentations. The presentation by KDK staff members Róza Vajd, Judit Gárdos, and Tímea Venczel, titled “Standardization versus Preservation: Supporting Interoperability through the Development of Thematic Metadata for Social Science Archives,” addressed the challenges of data standardization and interoperability in social science research.
Timea Venczel (RDC, ELTE Centre for Social Sciences) participated in the 2nd OSCARS project meeting in Seville on behalf of the ONTOLISST project. She presented the main research results and the related poster. During the event, several discussions took place among the project representatives, and the Competence Centres were also introduced.
Our institution organized the annual international conference of DDI this year. The event attracted participants from 22 countries.
Recent collections
The survey-based research led by Nikosz Fokasz on the credit crisis and social innovation is now available as a collection in the RDC. Two of CSS HAS's researchers participated in the study.
The data of a research collection led by Gabriella Szabó on the radical right in Hungary and Romania is now available in the RDC.
A new survey data collection about the perception of climate change in Hungary in now available.
Fruzsina Albert's large-scale interview collection with inmates of Hungarian prisons is now available at the Research Documentation Centre.
The research conducted 2003-2004 by Pál Tamás dealt with the Hungarian research-development systems, it collected opinions and conclusions of the Hungarian elite in EU- and international research networks. The collection is now available.
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