Members of the Data Archive for Social Sciences (DASS-BiH) team, Amela Kurta and Nermin Oruč visited Slovenian Social Science Data Archive ADP in May 2022. The study visit was part of the CESSDA Mentorship program and staff exchange organised within the RiTrain project.
During the study visit, different activities were organised, including a presentation of ADP work, training in the development of internal procedures and data catalogue using DataVerse, as well as several discussions on common issues in collecting and disseminating data in social sciences. We also organized meetings on knowledge transfer and exchange of good practices on open science with representatives of several relevant organisations from Slovenia, including the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, the journal Javnost, the Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre and the Slovenian OpenAIRE NOAD.
We would like to thank our mentors from ADP for their hospitality and all activities that were organized for us during the visit. We learned a lot from their experience, materials and information that the ADP team shared with us. We also would like to acknowledge the support that we received within the CESSDA Mentorship Program as a valuable contribution to the development of our data archive, as well as to the RiTrain project that supported our capacity building related to open science practices.