The Czech Social Science Data Archive (ČSDA) is a long-established disciplinary repository for storing, preserving and providing access to research data from the social sciences. It currently provides access to more than 700 datasets, primarily from sociological research, and is gradually expanding its services to other fields, such as experimental economics, as well as to new types of data, including synthetic data. ČSDA is part of the national and European research data infrastructure landscape, particularly through the Czech EOSC Node and the European CESSDA ERIC infrastructure. It supports the long-term availability, discoverability and reuse of research data in accordance with the FAIR principles.

This new disciplinary repository is designed for the storage, long-term preservation and controlled access to sensitive social science data that cannot be made openly available due to personal data protection requirements or other restrictions. The repository is being developed on the CESNET Invenio platform, which will be adapted to the specific requirements of managing and providing access to protected data. It will include procedures for assessing access requests, controlled data distribution and minimising the risk of identifying research participants. The repository will enable the secure preservation and sharing of both qualitative and quantitative research data, including research interviews, and will support their further scientific reuse while respecting requirements for personal data protection and research data confidentiality.