# Workflows after Nesstar

Alina Danciu, Nicolas Sauger

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Alina Danciu, Nicolas Sauger. Workflows after Nesstar. European DDI User Conference, EDDI 2022, Paris, Sciences Po, Nov 2022, Paris, France. 10.5281/zenodo.7406108 . hal-03889818

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# Workflows after Nesstar

Alina Danciu, Nicolas Sauger
Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP)
## CDSP's old data platforms

* More than 375 SSH surveys and data bases (sociology and political science)

* First users of Nesstar in France for data documentation

* Nesstar data visualisation and data download

* Question bank & data downloading platforms
## CDSP's Nesstar (2006-2020)

* Secondary users appreciated it, especially for teaching

* "Easy" to document data with

* Import/export XML functionality

* PDF Codebook - researchers happy with it

* No PIDs, no search engine

* No metadata reuse/CVs

* Not safe anymore

* Not maintained

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# Migration from Nesstar to Dataverse

* In-house scripts to implement controlled vocabularies (R)

* In-house scripts to migrate metadata and add PIDs (Python)

* A lot of manual checking

* Team work (Metadata managers and IT)

* F-UJI score: 63 (FINDABLE 6,5/7)
New workflows

* Dataverse for the study description (CESSDA and DDI Alliance controlled vocabularies, PIDs)

* Nesstar Publisher for variable description

* Dataverse for data download

* A data explore tool not yet installed : Data Explorer to come soon
Study-level metadata edition

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Guide d'utilisation

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Diffuseur 🔍

Nom 🔍

Sciences Po, Centre de données sociales

Affiliation 🔍

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Abréviation 🔍

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URL 🔍

Entrer l'URL complète commençant par

URL du logo 🔍

Entrer l'URL complète de l'image corr

Date de diffusion 🔍

AAAA-MM-ll

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Déposant 🔍

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Nombre

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Texte

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Image fixe

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Données géospatiales

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Audio

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Vidéo

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Logiciel

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Ressource interactive

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Représentation 3D

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Autre

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Date de dépôt 🔍

Période couverte 🔍

Date de la collecte 🔍

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# Variable documentation workflows

* For **variable-level metadata**, we continue to use Nesstar Publisher

* We have also been using **Colectica** for **longitudinal studies (funded project)**

* The pending question: “single” studies, for which we continue to use Nesstar.

Danciu, Alina, & Michaud, Geneviève. (2020, December 1). DDI, Dataverse and Colectica: our data management combo. 12th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI20). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4299083
Questions?

alina.danciu@sciencespo.fr