Center for Anthropological Informatics and
Related Sciences (CAIRS)
The U.S. system is decentralized, most of the social science data archives
are university-linked; and the U.S. National Archives collects digitalized
data for the federal government. In contrast, in Europe, there are
national data archives.
Cologne: Zentralarchiv for Empirical Social Research
Essex Data Archive: a specialist national
resource containing the largest collection of
accessible computer-readable data in the
social sciences and humanities in the
United Kingdom