It is freely accessible and covered by a CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence. The new licensing arrangements should lead to ELSST being more widely adopted by the international data community and beyond. ELSST is also available on the EOSC Marketplace, further increasing its international visibility.
The technical work needed to move to laos rcs data the new ELSST software was financed by CESSDA under the Ontology Management System project, while the 2020 round of update work for the thesaurus content, including concepts and structures, was managed separately under the CESSDA Metadata Office ELSST, CVS and CDC (Task 2) project.
Both projects were led by the UK Data Service, in collaboration with CESSDA main office and other CESSDA members, including the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) and the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD).
Work involved drawing up a list of requirements, comparing different tool options and solutions, and thorough testing of both VocBench and Skosmos. The UK Data Service was responsible for the VocBench implementation of ELSST, while CESSDA main office was responsible for implementing it in Skosmos, and for managing the new website.