DASS-BiH Officially Endorses TRUST Principles and Joins the RDA Group of Trusted Repositories

The Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), hosted by the Centre for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research (CREDI), is proud to announce that it has officially endorsed the TRUST Principles for digital repositories. With this step, DASS-BiH reaffirms its commitment to advancing international standards in the stewardship and responsible management…

DASS-BiH Shares Its Experience at FAIR Implementation Workshop for Trustworthy Data Repositories in the Western Balkans

The Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH) participated in the FAIR Implementation Workshop: Enhancing FAIR and Trustworthy Data Repositories in the Western Balkans, held on 8 May 2025. This regional event brought together data repository experts and practitioners to share experiences and practical insights on improving repository transparency, metadata exposure, and…

FAIR Implementation Workshop: Enhancing FAIR and Trustworthy Data Repositories in the Western Balkans

The Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH) is pleased to announce the upcoming FAIR Implementation Workshop – Enhancing FAIR and Trustworthy Data Repositories: Insights from the Repositories in the Western Balkan Region. The event will take place on 8th May 2025, from 10:00 to 11:05 CEST. This workshop will present key…

DASS-BiH Joins the World Data System as a Regular Member

The Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), managed by the Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research (CREDI), has officially become a Regular Member of the World Data System (WDS), affiliated with the International Science Council (ISC). This partnership, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding, reflects DASS-BiH’s commitment to promoting…

DASS-BiH Represents at the Conference on Data Sharing and Secondary Analysis in Child and Youth Wellbeing Research

On December 9-10, 2024, the Conference on Data Sharing and Secondary Analysis in Child and Youth Wellbeing Research was held in Zagreb, organized as part of the COORDINATE project and hosted by the CROSSDA – Croatian Social Science Data Archive, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Amela Kurta, representing the Data Archive…

DASS-BiH Reaffirmed as a Trusted Repository in ERC’s Inventory for Open Science Compliance

The Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), hosted by CREDI, has been included in the European Research Council’s (ERC) inventory of trustworthy repositories for a second time. This recognition is part of an initiative by the ERC Executive Agency to support Open Science Requirements in the Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement…

DASS-BIH participates in the FairImpact challenge

Coordinator of the CREDI Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), Amela Kurta, was selected to participate in the FairImpact challenge. DASS-BiH is selected as the only repository from the Western Balkan region participating in the project, together with 20 other repositories out of 51 applications. Each application was evaluated by three…

A new publication co-authored by our staff was just published

The CREDI coordinator of the Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), Amela Kurta, co-authored the D1 Report from the Mentorship Programme 2021-2022. The CESSDA Mentorship Programme is one-to-one support where CESSDA partners and new member service providers requesting support are matched with experts active in the programme. DASS-BiH participated in mentorship…

DASS-BiH included in the ERC inventory of trustworthy repositories

CREDI Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH) was included in the European Research Council’s inventory of trustworthy repositories. The repository inventory represents the output of a study conducted between March and October 2022 by a group of independent experts and commissioned by the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA). The study…