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Exploitation Wider exploitation will be undertaken to ensure benefits of the project spread beyond the core social science data archives and their users. It is expected that there will be many opportunities for exploitation outside the academic community, especially as a wider network of content providers decide to join the network. NESSTAR is uniquely positioned to exploit these opportunities and return maximum value to various EC investments. We anticipate the following results and potential users: New ‘CESSDA’ portal Individual archives, research institutes, end users (researches, policy makers, others) Multi lingual thesaurus operation Individual archives, libraries, end users Additional options to core Nesstar technologies Users of Nesstar servers technologies and end users Metadata structures for resource repositories and enhancements to the DDI Individual archives, research institutesm libraries and other information publishers New ‘CESSDA’ portal – in many ways this will be one of the most high profile and exciting results to come out of the project. Expansion into central and Eastern Europe has seen CESSDA grow and these countries look to the partners represented in the consortium to guide and lead their developments. It will become the ‘official’ interface to the CESSDA community and will be used heavily. Additionally it will be a major step towards creating a European identity to the data collections and make a significant contribution to development, perception and functionality for the European research area in the social sciences and beyond. In addition it will serve as an exemplar of the type of integrated, yet distributed and locally managed, infrastructure. The multilingual thesaurus is based on two generations of earlier work at the UK Data Archive. Firstly there was the HASSET thesaurus and then, under the auspices of the LIMBER project, the ELSST thesaurus. The new development will mean that an improved version will be created and translated into several languages. After the project finishes it is intended to widen the exploitation of the thesaurus. Enhancements to the underlying Nesstar technologies will be developed by Nesstar Ltd and owned by them. These will be made available to the project partners at no cost in order to ensure the full participation of all of the European archives. Organisations outside this immediate network will be encouraged to join the network and the negotiations with them during the project will be led by Nesstar in collaboration with the other partners. The exploitation of the metadata will be as wide as possible and this IPR will be unambiguously placed in the public domain. All stakeholders will benefit from as wide a take-up of metadata standards as possible. It facilitates interoperability and long term data preservation and the partners are all committed to continuing their international leadership and delivery of improved metadata models and implementations in the wider community. In particular the metadata developments are expected to be exploited by the DDI committee and the Eurostat funded initiatives. As the project progresses specific exploitation events will be held to promote both the social science infrastructure and the underlying tools to potential content publishers. These activities are expected to raise the profile and lead to new contracts with information providers. Examples include central government departments such as official statistics, internal affairs, transport, regional development and education. to the top