The COVID-19 SSH Data Portal - How it works
The COVID-19 SSH Data Portal provides integrated search, discovery, and linking to datasets published on the web relevant for COVID-19-related research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The COVID-19 SSH Data Portal is an initiative of the European University Institute.
Open platform
The COVID-19 SSH Data Portal, based on the Open Source platform InvenioRDM functions as web-based search tool over structured information (metadata) describing datasets relevant for COVID-19-related research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The customization code underlying the COVID-19 SSH Data Portal will soon be released opely on GitHub.
Open metadata
Metadata are captured semi-automatically from distributed data providers on the web through a set of configured "harvesters" and, through a curation process, are assigned relevant subject keywords and mapped to a metadata schema compliant with DataCite. Dataset descriptions are regularly kept up-to-date through iterative checking over the original data providers information pages and APIs.
Each dataset description page provides active linking to:
- The original description page on the data provider website
- Direct link to the dataset [when feasible]
- Direct link to the dataset documentation [when feasible]
Machine-readable metadata are also available through an Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) gateway.
Each individual dataset descritpion page offers the option to download the specific metadata record in the following formats:
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JSON -
CLS -
Datacite JSON -
Datacite XML -
Dublin Core XML