CESSDA Euro Question Bank - Workshop for CESSDA Service Providers (closed meeting)

The CESSDA Euro Question Bank Project (EQB) will implement a central search facility across all CESSDA's survey holdings to assist users in finding survey questions in different languages. EQB is based on the DDI-Lifecycle standard and has a close collaboration with the CESSDA Metadata Management project. CESSDA Service Providers can implement their own repository handler to store and document their content using DDI or other standardized metadata with different technologies. The CESSDA Open Source Metadata Harvester tool will provide this content to EQB. The EQB system architecture uses web services to enable interactions between its components. Therefore, the CESSDA Service Providers can use the system to build a search index for their metadata within the EQB application. The aim of this EQB workshop is to introduce the tools and technologies developed in the project so far to enable CESSDA Service Providers to contribute their content within the EQB. In particular, the workshop will be used to help test the prototype application of the EQB project and this will produce valuable feedback for further improvements of the EQB software.