Benchmarking report, including an action plan for improvements on an inter-consortium and individual-archive level

A comparative report will be produced by using the development model. Benchmarking requires a set of indicators to serve as the basis for a comparison between the organisation and an “industry best” or “gold standard” organisation. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has been suggested as a benchmark for CESSDA, and whether explicitly mentioned in the application or not, ICPSR is taken as the gold standard.