Information system and documentation standards

Analysis and assessment of the state-of-the-art European documentation and metadata standards for the social sciences, and then selection of the most suited one for historical data and printed sources. The selected standard includes information on the reasons for collecting the data, the data collection methods and procedures, the database scheme and the data structure as well as other coding schemes. If feasible, task 4.1 also compiles a record of (all) data modifications. Specific attention is paid to document the origins of historical sources.