Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets

这一示范项目将查明障碍，并制定其他激励机制，鼓励数据生产者将可存档的数据集存入存档。存档就绪意味着数据集符合存档的存放要求和提交指南。档案在很大程度上依赖于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，例如文件结构和格式、传输介质以及保护隐私和机密性的要求。整个数字档案事业都需要数字信息生产者和档案生产者之间的某种程度的合作。如果数据生产者不遵守提交指南，档案在准备保存和传播数据方面会产生额外的成本，在获取和发布之间会出现延迟，并且如果发布不符合质量保证标准的数据，则会承担风险。大学间政治和社会研究联盟（ICPSR）的研究文献和多年的数据存储经验表明，通常，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ICPSR专家组成的多学科团队将研究如何增加生产者和档案之间的合作。与政府合作伙伴国家司法研究所一起，该团队将使用多种方法（调查和实验）来确定遵守的障碍，修改指导方针和责任，并开发和测试替代激励机制。该奖项将通过分析生产者在准备储存数据时遇到的问题，并通过制定和实地试验其他激励机制，审查法律、社会和经济方面阻碍存档的障碍。该项目将加强对策展过程和工作流程的理解，特别是当工作在数据创建者和档案馆之间分配时。它将为数据生产者的预期贡献制定指标。还将有助于我们理解公共产品的激励机制。更广泛的影响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。这些模式和奖励机制将广泛适用于其他类型的数据生产者，这些数据生产者被供资机构授权存放数据或作为出版条件。最终，数据生产者和档案馆之间更多的合作将降低归档成本，加速数据发布，提高数据质量。这项研究还将为生产者-档案关系的标准和指导方针的发展提供信息。

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.