The Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group operates as an independent archive within the Research Documentation Centre. It contains numerous qualitative research materials of great importance for the history of sociology, from the last 60 years.
The Research Documentation Centre documents, archives and makes the researches conducted by Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) accessible for re-use. The curation proccess is conducted in close cooperation with the researchers.
Data management is an institutionally expected and supported task in the international research practice. Around the world in many research facilities, the comprehensive documentation of research data and the transparent data management is a part of the normal operation.
Latest news
We presented on the operations of our archives and the diverse projects of the RDC at an international workshop organized by the Belgian State Archives.
The 18th Annual European DDI Users Conference is being hosted by the Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive together with the State Archives of Belgium and the Brussels Institute for Social and Political Science in Brussels, Belgium from Monday 30 November to Friday 4 December 2026. The deadline for submission for the conference is September 1, 2026.
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What should archives and data repositories do with documents generated entirely by AI? We discussed this question with a number of distinguished colleagues. The various viewpoints and arguments were published this year.
We are proud to announce that our “Balatoni adathalászok” running team has successfully completed the XX. NN Ultrabalaton race!
Our article on the emergence and organization of the data steward profession and community in Hungary has been published. We collaborated with colleagues from ARP, ELTE DH-LAB, and the Research Centre for Linguistics on this study.
Recent collections
The survey-based research led by Nikosz Fokasz on the credit crisis and social innovation is now available as a collection in the RDC. Two of CSS HAS's researchers participated in the study.
The data of a research collection led by Gabriella Szabó on the radical right in Hungary and Romania is now available in the RDC.
A new survey data collection about the perception of climate change in Hungary in now available.
Fruzsina Albert's large-scale interview collection with inmates of Hungarian prisons is now available at the Research Documentation Centre.
The research conducted 2003-2004 by Pál Tamás dealt with the Hungarian research-development systems, it collected opinions and conclusions of the Hungarian elite in EU- and international research networks. The collection is now available.
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