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How to deposit data
A data centre is dependent on the surveys that you want to make available. CDSP can help to ensure that your data are documented, protected and disseminated.
To do this, CDSP offers the document and make your data available in accordance with FAIR principles *.
L’utilisation secondaire de vos données est encadrée par l’acceptation des Conditions générales engageant les utilisateurs secondaires à respecter l’intégrité, la citation des données et l’anonymat des répondants. Les données déposées au CDSP sont traitées, documentées et diffusées conformément aux réglementations nationales, aux bonnes pratiques disciplinaires et métiers, aux standards internationaux d’échange des données (OAIS et DDI) et selon les principes FAIR.
How to propose data?
Step 1: contact CDSP
If you are interested in depositing data with CDSP, begin by contacting the relevant team members to discuss your project. These people will support you throughout the deposit process.
You can also tell CDSP about your survey using the intent form.
NB: CDSP accepts data from social science surveys that include documentation that is sufficiently rich to be reusable.
Step 2: the proposal form
After this first contact, you will be asked to complete a fact sheet describing your data in order to make a formal request.
Your contacts at CDSP can help you complete this document:
To help you:
- Help sheet on how to deposit a survey
Complete one proposal form per survey. Rename the file(s) including your name (e.g. Proposal_survey1_NAME). Then send it to your contact at CDSP.
Three recommendations for depositing your data
1. Prepare the data package:
Quantitative data: name the variables so that the related questions in the questionnaire can easily be identified.
Qualitative data: put together all the field documents (documentation, images, transcriptions, notes, recordings, etc.).
2. Collect together all the contextual documents:
Questionnaire or interview guide, materials given to survey subjects (preliminary letters, etc.), instructions to investigators, etc.; Coding frames and coding instructions; Research project, summaries or draft analyses, etc.
3. Include any written report:
Material that elucidates the research process, the method of collection or the data analysis (methodological notes, articles, etc.).
Step 3: acceptance of your survey
Once you have completed your proposal form, your request will be examined by CDSP. You will receive an answer no more than three months after receipt of your proposal.
- Your request is accepted: Once your survey has been accepted, you will be contacted again, asked to complete the letter of undertaking and offer support in the data transfer process.
- Your request is not accepted: Our team guarantees to give you feedback and recommendations for a future deposit of data with CDSP or another datacentre.
Step 4: transfer of your data
To transfer your data, you have a choice of options. You can:
- either use a secure file sharing platform;
- or deposit them directly with CDSP.
NB: The digital file formats accepted for deposits with CDSP are listed below.
This list is not exclusive. If you are not sure or wish to deposit files in different formats, contact CDSP.
| Format | Extension |
|---|---|
AIFF | *.aiff |
CSV | *.csv |
Images | *.tiff, *.jpeg, *.png, *.svg |
Microsoft Excel | *.xls, *.xlsx |
Microsoft Word | *.doc, *.docx |
MPEG | *.mpeg1, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpeg2, *.mpeg3, *.mpeg4, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mp4, *.m3u, *.m4u |
Open Office Document | *.odt, *.calc |
RAR | *.rar |
R script | *.r |
SAS | *.sas, *.sas7bdat |
SPSS data | *.sav, *.por |
Stata data | *.dta |
Stata do file | *.do |
Syntaxe SPSS | *.sps |
Texte | *.txt |
WAVE | *.wav, *.wave |
ZIP | *.zip |
