Progedo's new & improved data repository: shining a spotlight on metadata

PROGEDO’s data repository, Quetelet-Progedo-Diffusion (https://data.progedo.fr/), holds more than 1,600 datasets produced by the social sciences and humanities community in France. In spring 2024, PROGEDO upgraded this repository to offer a single entry point for discovering and requesting access to the available datasets. This upgrade inevitably brought to the forefront the rich and well-structured metadata, in DDI Codebook, provided for each of the datasets. This is because users must exploit this metadata to not only browse the data collection, but also locate datasets of interest. This presentation therefore examines how the new and improved Quetelet-Progedo-Diffusion facilitates data re-use via the metadata documented in DDI Codebook. It also explores how this heightened focus on metadata helps to showcase the benefits and critical role of metadata in disseminating and sharing data to the research community and beyond.