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KOSSDA has worked on upgrading into a global data archive based on education and research capabilities of Seoul National University to which KOSSDA belongs.
On January 30 and 31, it held an international conference under the theme of "The Conference on Data Sharing and Beyond among East Asian Countries", which was counted as the first NASSDA meeting.
Representatives of major data archives in Asia including SSJDA of Tokyo University of Japan, CNSDA of the People's University of China, and SRDA of Taiwan Central Research Institute as well as Seoul National University KOSSDA, participated into the meeting, and each of them introduced its current state of archive in each country and discussed future cooperative measures.
At the meeting, the four country data archives agreed to launch the NASSDA (Network of Asian Social Science Data Archives), an Asian model of the European Data Archive Partnership of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), and did to establish practical plans for that.
As the founding members of NASSDA, they agreed to cooperate closely to share and spread data in Asia, and did to organize the network, governance, regular general meetings, data exchange and NASSDA paper contests.
KOSSDA will continue to work as an Asian research data hub through ongoing NASSDA activities.

KOSSDA attended the International Workshop on Social Data Archives hosted by Academia Sinica of Taiwan on September 15, 2017. It was the second international event of NASSDA, an Asian data archive network that KOSSDA proposed to create in January last year, and three data archives of social science including KOSSDA, Tokyo University of Japan SSJDA, and Taiwan Central Research Institute SRDA participated into the workshop. They shared some information on their data archived, services and archiving experiences. In particular, professor Christof Wolf of GESIS, the world's leading social science data archive, was invited as speaker to talk about the collaboration of European social science data archives and then they discussed the preparations and cooperation plans for the future of the Asian data archive network.

KOSSDA invited the representatives of NASSDA participating archives on June 28, 2018 to hold the 3rd NASSDA Meeting along with the 5th KOSSDA Data Fair. The meeting, which was attended by three data archives including Japan University of Tokyo, SSJDA, Taiwan SRDA, and China CNSDA, discussed the preparatory checks for MOU and making of data sharing platform. The members participated also achieved a consensus on banner exchange, governance agency designation, and NASSDA website opening. Following the meeting, they participated as presenters at the 5th KOSSDA Data Fair held under the theme of "Asia Well-being Research and Data Archiving," briefing each archive and introducing research trend of well-being issues and major well-being data. This was a very meaningful time as it was an opportunity to publicize NASSDA activities through this data fair.

KOSSDA attended the 4th NASSDA Meeting hosted by CSRDA-SSJDA of Tokyo University on January 25 and 26, 2018. Four data archives including CSRDA-SSJDA, KOSSDA, Taiwan SRDA, and CNSDA in China participated In this meeting. CSRDA-SSJDA of Tokyo University, the host of the meeting, arranged two speakings, the ones by Jared Lyle Metadata Director, ICPSR and Elizabeth C. Hess, Executive Director, IQSS, Harvard University, to discuss ICPSR's data repository certification experience and the open source data sharing platform, the Dataverse Projects respectively. There was some discussion followed, which was about making preparations and cooperation plans for building an Asian data archive network workable.

KOSSDA attended the 5th NASSDA Online Meeting hosted by CSRDA-SSJDA of Tokyo University on February 23, 2021. Four data archives of social science including CSRDA-SSJDA, KOSSDA, Taiwan SRDA and CNSDA in China participated in this workshop. They shared some information on their institute's recent activities and discussed some issues including preparations for CoreTrustSeal data repository certification, new data archiving plan for big data, operation plan of NASSDA.
In particular, professor Gary King of Harvard university was invited as speaker to introduce Social Science One project, which KOSSDA is participating as a consortium member, designed to build industry-academic partnerships through commercial information sharing and talk about open source data sharing platform, the Dataverse. KOSSDA will continue to increase our capacity and trust as an data archiving institute through ongoing NASSDA activities and participation of international data sharing project such as Social Science One.

KOSSDA attended the 6th NASSDA Online Meeting hosted by CNSDA of Renmin University on February 19, 2022.
In the first order, an invitational lecture, Ron Dekker, director of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), a consisting of 22 European countries and one partner group, introduced major services and projects.
Ron dekker described the main services of providing reliable data according to CoreTrustSeal and FAIR standards, language support service, customized education for each data-related subject, interoperability and sustainable technical support, and development and dissemination of user support tools. And he explained the SSHOC (Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud) project, which started in 2019 as part of the science movement. This CESSDA case lecture was a valuable time to explore the future vision and cooperation direction of NASSDA, a Network of Asian Social Science Data Archives, as well as the business operation of each archive.
In the second order, four data archives of a NASSDA participating including CNSDA of China, CSRDA-SSJDA of Japan, SRDA of Taiwan and KOSSDA shared the activities of each institute in 2021 and discussed major issues including cooperation projects such as development of comparable survey items and seminars for research exchange between data users from 4 countries, and NASSDA website management.
KOSSDA will continue to develop into data archiving institute that leads the social science data management and sharing in Asia through ongoing NASSDA activities and participation of research project such as International Consortium for Social Well-being Research (ICSWB).

KOSSDA hosted the 8th NASSDA Meeting on February 16, 2024. The first session featured presentations from each participating archive—KOSSDA at Seoul National University (Korea), CNSDA at Renmin University of China, CSRDA-SSJDA at the University of Tokyo (Japan), and SRDA in Taiwan—on recent activities and future plans. The second session focused on the meeting's theme, "The Future of NASSDA and Global Collaboration," and addressed two key items. The first, proposed by SRDA in Taiwan, was to jointly author and publish a paper in the Data Science Journal. All member institutions agreed to pursue this initiative as a way to introduce both their respective archives and NASSDA as a network. The second concerned NASSDA's participation in the archives session at the WAPOR Asia-Pacific Conference in July. The four archives agreed that KOSSDA's panel presentation would include content highlighting NASSDA. Looking ahead, KOSSDA will continue to promote and advance a culture of research data sharing—not only through collaboration with NASSDA, but also through active participation in international conferences and open data initiatives.

KOSSDA participated in the 9th NASSDA Meeting on January 9, 2025, held online by CSRDA-SSJDA at the University of Tokyo. Representatives from three institutions attended: CSRDA-SSJDA(Japan), KOSSDA(Korea), and SRDA(Taiwan). As a special guest, Bobray Joseph Bordelon, Librarian for Economics, Finance, and Data Services at Princeton University Library and Vice President of IASSIST(International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology), presented on international developments in social science data archive consortia. Participants also discussed the benefits of consortium partnerships and key considerations for NASSDA's future development. During the annual general meeting, each institution shared its 2024 activities, followed by discussions on major issues such as addressing linguistic and cultural differences in data exchange, standardizing Data Management Plans(DMPs), promoting research collaboration, and maintaining the NASSDA website. Looking ahead, KOSSDA will continue to strengthen its role as an international social science data archive through NASSDA activities and participation in global research projects such as the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems(CSES) and the World Values Survey(WVS). KOSSDA remains committed to advancing as a leading platform for research data sharing.