Welcome to NZSSDS news. Here you can read up on recent goings-on with the data service, and track its development history.
We have uploaded forms for users to fill in in order to download data sets, and also a lot of information for potential data depositors to NZSSDS. See the Accessing Data and Depositing Data pages for more information.
If you follow the link to the accessing data page, you can read more about the benefits of registering, and how to!
Our sister-entity NZSSN is offering 5 five-day short courses in research methods and statistical software/techniques applicable to the social sciences, in February 2008. For more information, visit the NZSSN short courses page!
We have put in for a 2-hour spot in the TASA/SAANZ conference, 4–7 December 2007. This will be 10:30am - 12:30pm, Wednesday 5 December, and will entail a presentation introducing NZSSDS and international goings-on in data archiving, and a hands-on session in a computer lab, offering a walkthrough of the Nesstar WebView interface and our data holdings. We are also generally interested in offering demonstrations to interested parties - contact us to express such interest!
This NZSSDS site is getting up and running. 15 sets of data and metadata are available for browsing; online analysis and download will be available soon with registration details, please bear with us.