Common abbreviations

ADSOpens in a new tab: Archaeology Data Service, UK repository for archaeology, heritage, and historic environment data

ARIADNEOpens in a new tab: Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe; previously a series of projects, since 2022 ARIADNE-RI, a research infrastructure

ARIADNEplusOpens in a new tab: A continuation of the ARIADNE project

CESSDAOpens in a new tab: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives

CLARINOpens in a new tab: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, a digital infrastructure offering data, tools and services to support research based on language resources

DANSOpens in a new tab: Data Archiving and Networked Services, the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data; a counterpart to SND

DARIAHOpens in a new tab: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, a pan-European digital research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

DAUOpens in a new tab: Data Access Unit, a local support function at organizations in the SND Network offering research data support to researchers

DNAOpens in a new tab: Rigsarkivet (the Danish National Archives), which was previously, as Dansk Data Arkiv, Denmark's counterpart to SND

DDIOpens in a new tab: Data Documentation Initiative, a metadata standard to describe research data, provided by DDI AllianceOpens in a new tab

DMP: Data Management Plan

FAIR: acronym for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable; a central principle for research data

FSDOpens in a new tab: Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Finland's counterpart to SND

GESISOpens in a new tab: German Social Science Infrastructure Services, now the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

IASSISTOpens in a new tab: International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology

ICPSROpens in a new tab: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

IFDOOpens in a new tab: International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Sciences

NAISSOpens in a new tab: National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden

OAOpens in a new tab: Open Access, a concept detailing how scientific information, research results, and education materials should be published with free and open access.

OAISOpens in a new tab: Open Archival Information System, a reference system and standard for digital preservation

RAOpens in a new tab: Riksarkivet, the Swedish National Archives

RAÄOpens in a new tab: Riksantikvarieämbetet, the Swedish National Heritage Board

RJOpens in a new tab: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, a Swedish research funding organization, and independent foundation with the goal of promoting and supporting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

SHFAOpens in a new tab: Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv, Swedish Rock Art Research Archives

SIKTOpens in a new tab: Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research; Norway's counterpart to SND, previously Norsk senter for forskningsdata, NSD

SUNETOpens in a new tab: Swedish University Computer Network, provides data communication and storage services to the Swedish higher education sector

SUHFOpens in a new tab: Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

UKDAOpens in a new tab: UK Data Archive, UK's largest digital collection of social sciences and population research data

UKDSOpens in a new tab: UK Data Service, a repository for economic, population, and social research data, and research data services in the UK; a British counterpart to SND

VinnovaOpens in a new tab: Sweden's innovation agency, and a research funding organization

VROpens in a new tab: Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council