Data-PASS at JCDL 2006
Jonathon Crabtree and Darrell Donakowski will be presenting information about the project at a workshop to be held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006) in Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-15, 2006. The paper, Building Relationships: "A Foundation for Digital Archives," will be part of the workshop titled Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success. For more information about the workshop, you can visit the workshop website.
2006-05-26
Data-PASS at the 2006 IASSIST Meeting
Amy Pienta, Data-PASS project director, will give a paper on the identification phase of the Data-PASS project at the International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST) meeting in Ann Arbor, MI, May 24-26, 2006. The presentation, "The LEADS Database at ICPSR: Identifying Important Social Science Studies for Archiving," will be part of the session titled Catch and Release: Best Practice Across the Data Life Cycle. The session will also include presentations by Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, and Nancy McGovern, Cornell University. For more information about the meeting, visit the IASSIST Web site.
2006-03-21
Data-PASS Attends the Third Meeting of the NDIIPP Project Partners
The third meeting of the NDIIPP project partners was held in Berkeley, Calif., from January 9 to 11. Designed to continue the work done during the two previous partner meetings, it provided an opportunity to update the participants on the program and provide them with a forum to inform fellow participants on what they have learned so far and the common issues they face. For additional information on the meeting, visit the Library of Congress' report on the meeting.
02-28-2006
Request for Community Input
NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Council has initiated a comprehensive strategic planning process to guide the agency's future investments in cyberinfrastructure - the IT-based infrastructure increasingly essential to science and engineering leadership in the 21st century. The agency's plans are being developed in a document entitled NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery (PDF).
NSF invites community comments on a new draft of this document, which is available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf. Comments should be provided via email to: ciinput@nsf.gov.
Future drafts of the document will be released as the agency's plans are shaped by community input, and as new chapters are developed. NSF plans to release the first complete version of this living document in the Spring of 2006.
01-30-2006
Data-PASS at the 2006 PAA Meeting
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences is showing a research poster summarizing project results at the Population Association of America meetings held in Los Angeles, California, March 30 - April 1 2006. Amy Pienta and Myron Gutmann of Data-PASS, and their colleague James McNally, University of Michigan, are presenting the poster. The presentation is titled "The Life Cycle of Demographic Data and the LEADS Database at ICPSR." The presentation describes the related data identification activities of two projects at ICPSR: Data-PASS and Data Sharing for Demographic Research. For more information about PAA or the meeting, visit the PAA Web site.
2006-03-21
Data-PASS at the IASSIST 2005 Meeting
Data-PASS representative, Darrell Donakowski, will be presenting information about the project at a joint conference between the International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST), and the International Federation of Data Organisations (IFDO) in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25 - 27, 2005. The presentation will be part of a session entitled: National Initiatives in Coordinating Preservation: Working Together. The session will also include presentations from the Library of Congress, the North Carolina State University Library, and the Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh. For more information about the conference, you can visit the IASSIST home page.
2005-03-18
Library of Congress Awards Data-PASS $4.1 Million to Create a Digital Social Science Acquisitions and Preservation Partnership
Data-PASS, the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences, today received a $4.1 million award from the Library of Congress to acquire and preserve data from opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys, and other social science studies. The three-year project is a broad-based partnership between the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, a Member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
This historic project will ensure the long-term preservation of the vital heritage of digital social science data that allows our nation to understand itself, its social organization, and its policies and politics. Together, the Data-PASS partners will survey important research in the social sciences, identify content that should be preserved, acquire content, develop common standards for metadata preparation, and develop strategies for ensuring that the data remain available for analysis.
2004-09-30
