For those who have collected research data and made it available to
others, its nice when people thank you. But it would be nicer to
receive formal scholarly citation credit and web visibility for your
hard work. The Dataverse Network project is designed to get you that
credit and visibility.
The idea is to give you a free "dataverse" (your view of the universe of
data) -- which is a virtual archive where you can store, permanently
preserve, and distribute your data (or list data from other dataverses)
with everyone or only those you approve. Your dataverse is branded as
yours, with the look and feel of your web site and on your web site, but
since it is served out by an installation of the Dataverse Network at
Harvard you needn't install any software or hardware. Some other
features include:
* Safe and permanent data storage in preservation format branded
as yours.
* No need to translate data when statistical software formats change.
* Can be easily re-branded if you move institutions, but either way
will never be lost.
* Formal citation credit for your data, including a globally unique
identifier and universal numeric fingerprint.
* Establish an unbreakable link between your data and related
published work.
* Easy ways for others to find your data and associated scholarship.
* Share your data with everyone, or those who sign your licensing
agreement, or only individuals or groups you approve.
* Allow users to subset, recode, and download your data in any format
* Run many advanced statistical methods via a GUI on-line.
An interesting but under-appreciated fact is that if you are at an
institution that receives federal funding, and you share research data
or put it on your web site without prior IRB approval, you are violating
federal regulations. (This includes any research data, even that
compiled from information in the public domain, from IRB-approved
research protocols, or from any other source.) To avoid this problem,
the Dataverse Network has automated the IRB data approval process, and
so if you have a dataverse in most cases going to the IRB is unnecessary.
For an example, go to my homepage at http://gking.harvard.edu and click
on dataverse. To get your own dataverse, go to the IQSS Dataverse
Network, http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu. For more information on our open
source Dataverse Network project, see http://TheData.org.
Gary
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Gary King
David Florence Professor of Government,
Director, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://GKing.Harvard.Edu, [log in to unmask]
Direct 617-495-2027, Assistant 495-9271, eFax 812-8581
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