Home / KonsortSWD / The Consortium / Services Services KonsortSWD provides services around research data in the social, educational, behavioural, and economic sciences. Supporting research data centres Creating benchmark processes and quality standards to support RDCs in implementing FAIR principles for sustainable and trustworthy data access. Read more RDM project grants RDM project grants support researchers in preparing and making available relevant new data collections for secondary use in accordance with the FAIR principles. Read more Persistent identifiers for variables Making the content of any datasets referenceable and findable. Read more Making data more findable Best practices for enhancing the visibility of research data in metasearch engines such as Google & Co. Read more Open APIs for standardised data access Reducing obstacles to data use and data provision through standardised interfaces. Read more RDCnet Connecting guest researcher workplaces to facilitate simple yet secure access to non-anonymised microdata. Read more CODI – A service for coding open responses in surveys Automated and efficient coding of text responses to open-ended questions into standardised, quality assured categories. Read more Harmonized Variables Combining survey data more easily through standardised and harmonised variables Read more Forum4MICA – Making Information Commonly Available The online forum for getting started with the use of data collections and for sharing related expert knowledge. Read more RDM Compas – Developing and exchanging professional research data management skills Online platform featuring teaching and information material. Read more QualidataNet – Sharing and re-using qualitative research data Support of archiving and sharing of qualitative data in social research. Read more Supporting research data management in qualitative social research Tools, templates, and guidelines on key ethical, legal, and practical challenges to RDM of qualitative data. Read more Open data format Open, non-proprietary format compatible with common statistical programs for sharing research data and metadata. Read more Linking textual data Linking textual data with other types of data. Read more