"SozioNet is part of a forthcoming social science information portal, which is currently being developed by the infoconnex initiative. SozioNet provides access to freely available resources with relevance to social sciences. SozioNet aims at building a network of social science insitutions and scientists, to agree on and establish common metadata standards. SozioNet implements a general infrastructure for the creation of semantically rich metadata and for harvesting and retrievaing relevant resources in a domain specific focus." (author's abstract