FACTORS IN AGING: Best Practices in Archiving and Sharing Longitudinal Data Resources on Aging

项目总结 国家老龄数据计算机化档案馆(NACDA)的使命是创建一个动态和 灵活的数据基础设施，以刺激卫生研究和促进与 老年学的生命历程。通过开发和提供研究资源和数据服务， NACDA提醒研究人员注意二次数据分析的机会，提供工具来定位和访问 相关材料，并加强老年学数据的可用性。NACDA的使命直接针对 老龄化纵向数据资源存档与共享的重点和期望(U24)(RFA- AG-17-016)；代表了NACDA过去35年工作的合理延伸和 大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)已有半个多世纪的历史。 为了完成这一使命，NACDA将实现四个具体目标： 1)加强和扩大国家计算机化数据档案馆的纵向收集工作 并进一步开发其用户友好的数据档案，以支持行为和社会科学研究 通过关注纵向、面板、重复测量和关联数据等领域，以及通过 鼓励研究人员共享和归档这些数据；2)为文档和 为生产纵向、重复测量和链接的研究人员归档数据和元数据 数据，包括确保适当的机密性审查和保护的方法指南 地理空间数据；3)向研究人员分发增强的数据和文档，其形式将有助于 它们的使用，通过创造可以更有效地使用的产品，以高效和成本效益的方式做到这一点 与原始数据生产者创建的版本相比；以及4)通过为用户提供辅助分析 支持、获取数据、培训和咨询。通过仔细跟踪用户支持请求的所有方面 和数据的使用，我们将更有效地识别和瞄准新兴的研究趋势和 培训需求，以便我们可以继续发展我们的计划和支持服务。我们通过以下方式实现这一目标 项目工作人员在ICPSR资深研究人员领导下的活动， NIA项目科学家，以及来自更广泛的研究界的广泛的NACDA倡导者。 总体而言，这些小组将就NACDA的活动和收购目标积极提供建议，并制定 对于所有对保存、共享和支持数据感兴趣的研究人员来说，美国是一个宝贵的合作伙伴 老化的生命通道。

PROJECT SUMMARY The mission of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) is to create a dynamic and flexible data infrastructure to stimulate health research and advance knowledge as it relates to the gerontological lifecourse. Through the development and delivery of research resources and data services, NACDA alerts researchers to opportunities for secondary data analysis, provides tools to locate and access relevant materials, and enhances the availability of gerontological data. NACDA’s mission directly addresses the focus and expectations of the Archiving and Sharing of Longitudinal Data Resources on Aging (U24) (RFA- AG-17-016); representing a logical extension of the NACDA’s work for the past 35 years and the work of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for over half a century. To fulfill this mission, NACDA will accomplish four specific goals: 1) Enhance and expand the longitudinal collections maintained by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging and further develop its user-friendly data archive to support behavioral and social science research on healthy aging by focusing on areas of longitudinal, panel, repeat measure and linked data, and by encouraging researchers to share and archive these data; 2) Advise and assist in the documentation and archiving of data and metadata for researchers who are producing longitudinal, repeat measure and linked data, including guidance in methods that ensure adequate confidentiality review and protection for linked and geo-spatial data; 3) Distribute enhanced data and documentation to researchers in a form that will facilitate their use, do so in an efficient and cost-effective manner by creating products that can be used more effectively than the versions created by the original data producer; and 4) Facilitate secondary analysis by providing user support, access to data, training and consultation. By carefully tracking all aspects of user support requests and data use by the community, we will more effectively identify and target emerging research trends and training needs so we can continue to evolve our programs and support services. We accomplish this through the activities of the project staff under the leadership of established researchers at ICPSR, an advisory council, NIA Project Scientists, and the wide array of NACDA advocates drawn from the broader research community. Collectively, these groups will actively advise NACDA regarding its activities and its acquisition goals and make us a valuable partner for all researchers interested in the preservation, sharing and support of data that informs the aging lifecourse.