Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving

描述（由申请人提供）： 该应用程序汇集了政治和社会研究大学间联盟和三个领先的人口研究中心（卡罗莱纳人口中心，明尼苏达人口中心和密歇根大学人口研究中心），以响应RFA-HD-03-032，“数据共享和共享的基础设施”。“这些机构将为NICHD人口和行为科学分支（DBSB）资助的调查人员提供数据共享和数据存档方面的支持，特别关注复杂的数据和需要特别安全的数据。我们的目标是支持研究人员和他们工作的研究中心，而不是接管他们维护和传播他们收集的数据的愿望和责任。具体来说，该项目将（1）为研究人员提供工具，使他们能够传播他们数据的公共访问版本;（2）为调查人员提供传播限制访问数据的工具和战略（3）协助调查人员确保潜在用户能够找到他们的数据，在获取和使用的所有阶段获得支持，并接受适当的数据使用培训;（4）为公共使用和限制使用数据提供长期安全存档，以确保数据永久保存以供未来使用;（5）通过关键领域的研究和开发计划，提高数据共享和存档的科学性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application brings together the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and three leading centers of population research (The Carolina Population Center, the Minnesota Population Center, and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan) in response to RFA-HD-03-032, "Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Archiving." These institutions will provide support to investigators funded by the NICHD Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) for data sharing and data archiving, with special attention to complex data and data that require special security. Our goal is to support investigators and the research centers in which they work without taking over their desire to and responsibility for maintaining and disseminating the data they collect. Specifically, the project will (1) provide investigators with tools that will enable them to disseminate public access versions of their data; (2) provide investigators with tools and strategies for the dissemination of restricted-access data (3) assist investigators in ensuring that potential users can locate their data, get support in all the stages of acquisition and use, and receive appropriate training in data use; (4) provide long-term secure archiving of public-use and restricted use data, in order to ensure that the data are permanently preserved for future use; and (5) improve the science of data sharing and archiving through a program of research and development in key areas.