Upgrading the Computational Instrumentation of the Inter- University Consortium for Political and Social Research

目前正在提供资金， 计算仪器Inter.university 政治和社会研究。 目标是改善 联合体作为研究机构的职能能力 社会科学教育;提高其能力 以更有效的方式提供服务;并准备 它利用计算机和信息技术的进步 技术，因为这种进步发生，并认为适用。 通过这一努力， 增加会员费将得到缓解，因此， 能够订阅的学院和大学数量 联盟将继续包括较少的well.to.do和更多 地理位置偏远，沿着大，更集中 定位机构。 总体效果将是维持 甚至可能增加社会科学家的数量， 进入财团，并打开新的机会之窗 利用财团的大量数据因此 有助于扩大和加深我们对社会的理解 流程. 该联盟是一个拥有320多所大学和 大学附属机构。 它充当存储库， 计算机可读数据的分发者。 科学分析。这些数据包括但不限于， 在NSF赠款下收集的数据被认为对以下方面有用： 二次分析（联合体是首选储存库 在社会和经济科学司的新归档下 政策），以及置于联合体下的公共使用数据文件 由联邦统计机构进行分配。 数据从 许多其他来源也构成了财团的一部分， 多方面的档案 通过联合体的工作， 大大减少了数据使用和数据共享的障碍， 数据的使用有效地民主化， 昂贵的数据收集增加，更多的研究和 获得了教学“回报”。 也许更大的好处 从财团的价值中产生的资源， 科学验证和复制，并从其内在的 性格作为社会定量信息的提供者 从不止一个角度来看。 建议的赔偿额将提供所需资金， 更换陈旧的计算机设备， 光学扫描，光学存储， 和数据传输。 其他存储方法， 传输和访问存档数据（CD ROM和 例如，局域网）将根据 专家的判断。

Funds are being furnished for the purpose of upgrading the computational instrumentation of the Inter.university Consortium for Political and Social Research. The goals are to improve the functional capacity of the consortium as a facility for research and instruction in the social sciences; to improve its capacity to provide services in a more effective fashion; and to prepare it to capitalize on advances in computer and information technology as such advances occur and are deemed applicable. Through this effort, inflationary and other pressures to increase membership fees will be eased, and consequently the number of colleges and universities able to subscribe to the consortium will continue to include the less well.to.do and more geographically remote along with the large, more centrally positioned institutions. The overall effect will be to maintain and perhaps even increase the number of social scientists with access to the consortium, and to open new windows of opportunity for exploitation of the consortium's vast data holdings .. thus serving to expand and sharpen our understanding of societal processes. The consortium is an organization with over 320 college and university affiliates. It acts as a repository for and distributor of computer.readable data amenable to social scientific analysis. Such data include, but are not limited to, data collected under NSF grants that are deemed useful for secondary analysis (the consortium is the preferred repository under the Division of Social and Economic Science's new archiving policy), and public use data files placed under consortium distributorship by federal statistical agencies. Data from a great many other sources also form part of the consortium's multifaceted archives. Through the work of the consortium, technical and economic obstacles to data use and data sharing are substantially reduced, the use of data is effectively democratized, the utility of costly data collections is increased, and greater research and instructional "payoff" is gained. Perhaps even greater benefits accrue from the value of the consortium as a resource for scientific verification and replication, and from its intrinsic character as a provider of quantitative information on social phenomena from more than one perspective. The recommended award will furnish the funds needed to replace obsolete computer equipment and capitalize upon emerging technologies in such areas as optical scanning, optical storage, and data transmission. Other approaches to storing, transmitting, and otherwise accessing archived data (CD ROM and LAN, for example) will be explored and utilized in accordance with the judgment of experts.