Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets

这一示范项目将确定障碍，并为数据生产者在档案中存放可存档的数据集制定替代激励机制。归档就绪是指满足归档的存放要求和提交指南的数据集。档案在很大程度上依赖数据生产者在存放数据时提供完整和准确的文件，并遵守其他要求，如文件结构和格式、传输媒体以及保护隐私和机密性的要求。整个数字档案事业假定数字信息生产者和档案馆之间存在一定程度的合作。当数据制作者不遵守提交准则时，档案在准备保存和传播数据时会产生额外的成本，接收和发布之间会有延误，如果不符合质量保证标准的数据发布，档案将承担风险。大学间政治和社会研究联盟(政治和社会研究联合会)的研究文献和多年的数据存储经验表明，作为一项规则，目前的激励措施不足以克服数据生产者报告的障碍。这个由数字档案、社会科学研究、实验经济学和国际档案馆理事会组成的多学科专家小组将研究如何加强制作者和档案馆之间的合作。该团队将与政府合作伙伴国家司法研究所一起，使用多种方法(调查和实验)来确定合规障碍，修订指导方针和责任，并开发和测试替代激励机制。智力价值该奖项将通过分析生产者在准备存放数据时遇到的问题，并通过开发和现场测试替代激励机制，来审查存档的法律、社会和经济障碍。该项目将加强对策展程序和工作流程的了解，特别是在数据创建者和档案之间分配工作的情况下。它将为数据生产者的预期贡献制定衡量标准。还将对我们理解公共产品的激励机制做出贡献。布罗德影响与社会科学家的研究结果将产生更好的模型，在数据生产者和档案馆之间分担归档责任。这些模式和激励机制将广泛适用于其他类型的数据生产者，这些数据生产者受命交存资助机构的数据或作为发布数据的条件。最终，数据生产者和档案馆之间的更多合作将降低存档的成本，加快数据的发布，并提高其质量。这项研究还将为制片人和档案馆关系的标准和指导方针的制定提供信息。

This demonstration project will identify barriers and develop alternative incentive mechanisms for data producers to deposit archive-ready data sets in an archive. Archive-ready means data sets that meet an archive's deposit requirements and submission guidelines. Archives rely heavily on data producers to provide complete and accurate documentation when they deposit data and to comply with other requirements, such as file structures and formats, transfer media, and requirements for protection of privacy and confidentiality. The entire enterprise of digital archiving assumes some degree of cooperation between producers of digital information and archives. When data producers do not comply with submission guidelines, archives incur additional costs in preparing the data for preservation and dissemination, experience delays between ingest and release, and assume risks if data that do not meet quality assurance standards are released. The research literature and years of experience with data deposits at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) indicate that, as a rule, current incentives are insufficient to overcome the obstacles that data producers report. This multi-disciplinary team of experts in digital archiving, social science research, and experimental economics and ICPSR will investigate ways to increase cooperation between producers and archives. With a government partner, the National Institute of Justice, the team will use multiple methods (surveys and experiments) to identify barriers to compliance, revise guidelines andresponsibilities, and develop and test alternative incentive mechanisms.Intellectual MeritThis award will examine legal, social and economic impediments to archiving by analyzing problems that producers encounter when preparing data for deposit and by developing and field testing alternative incentive mechanisms. The project will enhance understanding of curatorial processes and work flow, especially when work is distributed between the data creator and the archive. It will develop metrics for the contributions expected of data producers. Contributions will also be made to our understanding of incentive mechanisms for public goods.Broader ImpactsThe results of research with social scientists will produce better models for sharing responsibility for archiving between data producers and archives. The models and incentive mechanisms will have broad applicability to other types of data producers who are mandated to deposit data by funding agencies or as a condition of publication. Ultimately, more cooperation between data producers and archives will reduce the costs of archiving, accelerate the release of data, and improve its quality. The research will also inform development of standards and guidelines for producer-archive relationships.