Publications
FSD's experts publish several project deliverables, reports, and articles each year.
Publications in TUNICRIS
Information on the research outputs, conference presentations, positions of trust, and other activities of FSD's current staff can be searched for and viewed in the Tampere University Research Portal (TUNICRIS).
TUNICRIS: Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Opens in a new tab)
Further down this page, you will also find a comprehensive selection of annual publications by FSD staff over the years.
Conference Presentations
Links to presentations given at events organised by FSD are published on the event pages. A selection of presentations by FSD staff given at other events is available on Zenodo. In addition, CESSDA-related presentations are usually available via the CESSDA community.
Software
FSD develops software for its own needs, for use in the CESSDA archives, and in general for use in processing or presenting research data and metadata. The source code, descriptions, and license information for the software are available on TUNI GitLab or GitHub.
Open Source Software
Annual publications
The publications of FSD's experts mainly consist of expert contributions in project reports, idea papers, studies, or articles published in various online publications.
Publications (2016 onward) with FSD staff members as contributors.
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2025
- (2025). CESSDA Recommendations on Data Citation: Practical Recommendations for Key Stakeholders (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). Data Citation Practices among CESSDA Service Providers: Monitoring Report 2024-2025 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). Digital repository capabilities and characteristics mapping report (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS – MS13 Landscape analysis ready (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). How to choose a service for data sharing and publishing? -training material (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS TTRAMatrix v01.00 Introduction and Overview (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS TTRAMatrix Design Statement (v01.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS TTRAMatrix v01.00 Guide (v01.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS TTRAMatrix v01.00 Template (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FAIRly Specialist: Generic vs Disciplinary implications for FAIR-enabling Repositories (01.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS landscape survey analysis (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). Strengthening Repository Practices: Experiences and Outcomes from the FIDELIS TTRAM workshops (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). OSTrails D2.2 OSTrails Software and Services V1 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). The battle for trust: Advancing the social science data ecosystem (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). D5.1 - Harmonised Matrix of Repository Functions, Activities & Characteristics (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). FIDELIS MS12 First version of TTRAM (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). OSTrails D4.2 Horizon Europe Report (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). D1.2 - FIDELIS Data Management Plan (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). OSTrails D3.4 Disciplinary and Thematic Community-based Evaluation Extensions for Compliance Assessment V1 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). Explorer and Pathfinder Tracks for CoreTrustSeal: Assessing the essential characteristics of a Trustworthy Digital Repository (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). OSTrails D2.5: OSTrails Commons Specifications (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). OSTrails D1.4: OSTrails Interoperability Reference Architecture V1 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). D8.1 - Implementation report on support for "early adopters" and training interventions (Opens in a new tab)
- (2025). CESSDA Annual Report 2024 (Opens in a new tab)
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2024
- (2024). Dataviittaukset – tutkimusekosysteemin kulmakivi. Signum, 57(2), 51–52 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Metadata Infrastructure (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen viitearkkitehtuuri 2024–2030. (Vastuullisen tieteen julkaisusarja; No. 1/2024). Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). Proposal for a framework of contextual metadata in selected research infrastructures of the life sciences and the social sciences & humanities. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 16(4), 261-277 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). Closing Gaps: A Model of Cumulative Curation and Preservation Levels for Trustworthy Digital Repositories. In 18th International Digital Curation Conference, IDCC24 (International Journal of Digital Curation; Vol. 18, No. 1). University of Edinburgh. (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). OSTrails D1.1: Plan-Track-Assess Pathways (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). BY-COVID D2.4 Report on data sources discovery and integration for enabling data use and re-use in response to future outbreaks. BY-COVID (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). OSTrails D4.1: Pilots Methodology and Operational Processes (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). OSTrails D2.1: Analysis of the OSTrails Interoperability Framework Tools Compliance (Opens in a new tab)
- (2024). CESSDA Annual Report 2023 (Opens in a new tab)
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2023
- (2023). CMM CESSDA Metadata Model (3.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). D16 Landscape Workshop and Report (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). BY-COVID D2.2: Data Access and Transfer across research domains and jurisdictions (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). BY-COVID D3.3.1: COVID-19 Data Portal (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). CoreTrustSeal+FAIRenabling: Alignment between the FAIR Principles and CoreTrustSeal 2023–25 (01.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). Beyond COVID - how the BY-COVID project is increasing European pandemic preparedness. (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). Improve the quality and impact of your research through data management - A guide for making your data FAIR. Avoin tiede ja tutkimus -hanke. (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). Improving COVID-19 metadata findability and interoperability in the European Open Science Cloud (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). ECRIN - CESSDA strategies for cross metadata mappings in selected areas between life sciences and social sciences and humanities. Open Research Europe, 3(180) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). EOSC-Future Test Science Project "META-COVID": Final report for CESSDA - ECRIN use case (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). BY-COVID D1.2: Preparedness Data Hub (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model version 3.0 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion. Open Research Europe, 2(146) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2023). CESSDA Annual Report 2022 (Opens in a new tab)
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2022
- (2022). Milestone 47 Follow up of certification status (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). D4.5 Report on completed FAIR data standard adoption and certifications of data repositories in the region (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). Towards a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs) - A Working Paper (v2.0) (Opens in a new tab)
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2021
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2022
- (2022). CESSDA Annual Report 2020 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). Landscape Workshop and Report (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). D1.5 Final Annual Progress & Activity Report (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). TRIPLE Deliverable: 3.6 Report on User Evaluation (Interim) (Draft) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). BY-COVID - D3.1 - Metadata standards. Documentation on metadata standards for inclusion of resources in data portal (V1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). BY-COVID D3.2: Implementation of cloud-based, high performance, scalable indexing system (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). FAIR + Time: Preservation for a Designated Community (02.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). D8.3 Trustworthy Digital Repository status update and certification solutions for SSHOC repositories (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). SSH Conversion Hub - SSHOC Service Catalogue's Factsheets Series (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). FAIR is possible! Increasing FAIR maturity of the Nordic and Baltic research datarepositories
- (2022). D15 Activity report on progress in Trust activities across the SSH domain (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). European DDI Conference 2022 Training Fair: Introduction to DDI Codebook (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). D4.4 Report and recommendations on FAIR incentives and expected impacts in the Nordics, Baltics and EOSC (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). D4.3 Report on Nordic and Baltic repositories and their uptake of FAIR (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion (Final) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2022). SSHOC Exploitation Plan (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
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2021
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2022
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2021
- (2021). D3: ELSST User Guide and ELSST Translation Guide (1.3) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). Report on creating a CDC Publisher Names Vocabulary and investigating Data Access Interoperability (2.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). SSHOC D1.4 Second Annual Progress & Activity Report (V1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model version 2.0 (2.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). Nordic FAIR Data Collaboration Opportunities (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). D2: Terms of Reference for CESSDA Vocabulary Service (Version 2) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). Report on the Published Updates to CESSDA Vocabulary Service Content (Version 1) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). D5 One workshop and workshop report presenting the current state of the Trust Landscape and implications for CESSDA Service Providers (Version 1) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). D3.6 Report on SSHOC format interoperability solution services, including new software (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). FAIR + Time: Preservation for a Designated Community (01.00) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2021). MS8 Choice of Vocabulary Publication platform for SSHOC (1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
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2020
- (2020). D3: ELSST User Guide and ELSST Translation Guide (Version 1.2) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). Report on creating a CDC Publisher Names Vocabulary and investigating Data Access Interoperability (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). CESSDA Annual Report 2019 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). CESSDA Trust Group: Overview of Support Approaches (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model version 2.0 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). D4.1 An assessment of FAIR-uptake among regional digital repositories (Version 1.0) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). D2: Terms of Reference for CESSDA Vocabulary Service (Version 2) (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). D5: Terms of Reference for CESSDA Data Catalogue (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). Report on the Published Updates to CESSDA Vocabulary Service Content (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). SSHOC D8.2 Certification plan for SSHOC repositories (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). MS14 Inventory of existing (meta-)data format interoperability solutions (Opens in a new tab)
- (2020). Choosing and implementing persistent identifiers : Guide for research organisations (Opens in a new tab)
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2019
- (2019). CMM CESSDA Metadata Model (Opens in a new tab)
- (2019). SSHOC D3.1 Report on SSHOC (meta)data interoperability problems (Opens in a new tab)
- (2019). "CoreTrustSeal : From academic collaboration to sustainable services" IASSIST Quarterly 43:1 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2019). CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2020–2022 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2019). User Guide for the CESSDA Metadata Model (Opens in a new tab)
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2017
- (2017). Revisiting Qualitative Data Reuse. A Decade On. Sage Open vol 7 (Issue 1), 1-15 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2017). Oikeuksien hallintaan liittyvät metatiedot, selvitys. Avoin tiede ja tutkimus -hanke, Helsinki (Opens in a new tab)
- (2017). Haastattelun keruun ja käsittelyn ABC. Teoksessa Hyvärinen Matti, Nikander Pirjo & Ruusuvuori Johanna (toim.) Tutkimushaastattelun käsikirja. Tampere. Vastapaino, 413-426
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2016
- (2016). Tutkijoiden digitaaliset tutkimusaineistot ja datan avoin jakaminen digitaalisen humanismin kontekstissa. Teoksessa Elo Kimmo (toim.) Digitaalinen humanismi ja historiatieteet. Turku: Turun Historiallinen Yhdistys, 39–75. (Historia Mirabilis 12)
- (2016). Tietomillissä kuka tahansa saa helposti tietoa suomalaisten mielipiteistä. Portti-verkkolehti, ATT-hanke 21.10.2016
- (2016). Tietomillissä oppilaat saavat helposti tietoa suomalaisten mielipiteistä. Kleio 4/2016, Historian ja yhteiskuntaopin opettajien liitto
- (2016). Palveluportaali Aila: Jatkokäyttöön toimitettujen aineistojen määrä yli kolminkertaistui. Portti-verkkolehti, ATT-hanke 1.3.2016
- (2016). Lääke- ja terveystieteellisten aineistojen arkistointi ja jatkokäyttö. Sosiaalilääketieteen aikakauslehti; Vol 53, Nro 4 (Opens in a new tab)
- (2016). Kiinnostavaa mutta monimutkaista: tiedot, osallistuminen ja suhtautuminen vaikuttamiseen. Teoksessa Grönlund Kimmo ja Wass Hanna (toim.) Poliittisen osallistumisen eriytyminen – Eduskuntavaalitutkimus 2015. Oikeusministeriö, 358–378
- (2016). Yhdenvertaisuus äänestyskopissa: äänestysaktiivisuus vuoden 2015 eduskuntavaaleissa. Teoksessa Grönlund Kimmo ja Wass Hanna (toim.) Poliittisen osallistumisen eriytyminen – Eduskuntavaalitutkimus 2015. Oikeusministeriö, 177–199
- (2016). Itä-Suomen vaalipiiriuudistuksen vaikutukset. Teoksessa Grönlund Kimmo ja Wass Hanna (toim.) Poliittisen osallistumisen eriytyminen – Eduskuntavaalitutkimus 2015. Oikeusministeriö, 200–223
Other publications by FSD staff
Publications by FSD staff include works and publications related to data archiving as well as project and research publications using research data archived at FSD.
Publications on data archiving and related issues
Other Publications
- Sami Borg, Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen & Jussi Westinen (2015). Demokratiaindikaattorit 2015.
- Sami Borg (toim.) (2013). Demokratiaindikaattorit 2013.
- Sami Borg (toim.) (2012). Muutosvaalit 2011.
- Sami Borg (toim.) (2006). Suomen demokratiaindikaattorit.
- Sami Borg (2005). Kansalaisena Suomessa. Kansalaisvaikuttaminen Pohjoismaissa ja European Social Survey 2002.
- Sami Borg (toim.) (2004). Mahdollisuuksien maa. Kartoitusta ja puheenvuoroja suomalaisen kansalaisvaikuttamisen tutkimuksesta.
FSD Publication Series
FSD's publication series includes analyses of data and guides to data archiving and documentation.
All publications in this series are available as PDF-documents, or alternatively printed versions can be purchased online at Juvenes Book Store (Opens in a new tab) . The majority of the publications are currently only available in Finnish.
Yhteiskuntatieteellisen tietoarkiston julkaisuja, ISSN 1459-8906
- Tietoarkisto tiedeyhteisön tukena. Raportti asiakaskyselyn tuloksista 2017. (Data Archive – Services Supporting the Scientific Community)
- Avoin tiede ja tutkimusaineistot -kysely 2015. Raportti terveystieteiden ja humanististen alojen tutkijoille suunnatun kyselyn tuloksista.
- Comparison of Statistics Finland’s and FSD’s Metadata Models.
- Jakaantunut Suomi. Raportti ISSP 2009 Suomen aineistosta.
- Uskonto suomalaisten elämässä. Uskonnollinen kasvatus, moraali, onnellisuus ja suvaitsevaisuus kansainvälisessä vertailussa.
- Suomalaiset ja vapaa-aika. Raportti ISSP 2007 Suomen aineistosta.
- Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data - The State of the Art in Finland.
Yhteiskuntatieteellisen tietoarkiston julkaisuja, ISSN 1459-8906
- Julkisrahoitteisen tutkimusdatan avoin saatavuus ja elinkaari. Valmisteluraportti OECD:n datasuosituksen toimeenpanomahdollisuuksista Suomessa.
- Valtion vastuu ja tehtävät. Verotuksesta terrorismin torjuntaan. Raportti ISSP 2006 Suomen aineistosta.
- Uskonto, arvot ja instituutiot. Suomalaiset World Values -tutkimuksissa 1981-2005.
- Suomalaiset ja työ. Raportti ISSP 2005 Suomen aineistosta.
- Opas kvantitatiivisten tutkimusaineistojen jatkokäyttöön.
- Onni on olla suomalainen? Kansallinen identiteetti ja kansalaisuus. Raportti ISSP 2003 ja 2004 Suomen aineistosta.
Research Methods Web Resource
Research Methods Web Resource (MOTV) is a web resource developed and maintained by FSD.