Data Processing in FSD: Challenges in a New Archive

The data that FSD archives must be from an area or discipline in the field of social sciences. It should also fulfil certain technical and legal requirements: aspects of copyright and ownership should be clear, there should be no legislative impediments to archiving (e.g. data protection, privacy protection), the original purpose of data collection should not prevent archiving and, last but not least, the information content and technical properties should make the data suitable for archiving.