Description
On August 31, 2010, Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies launched the ISPS Data Archive (http://isps.yale.edu/research/data).
The motivation for the Archive was to capture and preserve intellectual output produced by scholars affiliated with ISPS, to share data and associated research output, and to link to publications and projects.
The Archive was developed as a pilot for the university (under the Office for Digital Assets and Infrastructure). It provides a model for customized platforms that meet the needs of one research unit, and otherwise relies entirely on Yale IT and library resources (no third party vendors or tools).
The ISPS Data Archive currently holds over 1,000 files for ~55 studies.
ISPS has created policies for users and depositors in consultation with Yale’s General Counsel and the IRB, and in line with best practices among leading social science data archives elsewhere (e.g., ICPSR).
Files are hand-curated: This means that all files are inspected by RAs for PII data and for useable labeling and all program files are run to validate results. (For more background information, see: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/212.)
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The Repository as Data (Re) User: Hand Curating for Replication
On August 31, 2010, Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies launched the ISPS Data Archive (http://isps.yale.edu/research/data).
The motivation for the Archive was to capture and preserve intellectual output produced by scholars affiliated with ISPS, to share data and associated research output, and to link to publications and projects.
The Archive was developed as a pilot for the university (under the Office for Digital Assets and Infrastructure). It provides a model for customized platforms that meet the needs of one research unit, and otherwise relies entirely on Yale IT and library resources (no third party vendors or tools).
The ISPS Data Archive currently holds over 1,000 files for ~55 studies.
ISPS has created policies for users and depositors in consultation with Yale’s General Counsel and the IRB, and in line with best practices among leading social science data archives elsewhere (e.g., ICPSR).
Files are hand-curated: This means that all files are inspected by RAs for PII data and for useable labeling and all program files are run to validate results. (For more background information, see: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/212.)
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Poster originally appeared on the ISPS blog on July 24, 2013:
http://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2013/07/the-role-of-data-repositories-in-reproducible-research