Factors in Aging: Development Research Resources

描述（由申请人提供）：国家老龄化计算机数据档案馆（NACDA）的使命是创建一个数据基础设施，以促进老年学研究。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级数据分析的机会，提供查找和获取相关材料的工具，并增强现有的老年学数据库。为了完成这一使命，该应用程序描述了NACDA的工作，因为它福尔斯四个具体目标：1）维护国家老龄计算机数据档案馆的现有收藏，并将其进一步开发为用户友好的数据档案，以支持行为和社会科学研究关于衰老的。这一目标将通过确定、获取和保存对老年学研究界具有科学重要性的数据集来实现。2)为正在产生数据的研究人员提供数据和元数据的记录和存档方面的建议和协助，以促进其数据共享活动并确保长期保存。NACDA将继续积极参与研究进程，为二级用户编制数据开发工具并提供培训和支持。3)就二次分析数据共享方法向研究人员提供咨询和协助，同时通过以便于安全使用的格式向研究界分发数据和文件，提供充分的保密保护。4)通过为我们的网站提供持续的技术创新以改善用户访问，并通过我们持续的高水平直接用户支持以确保数据用户成功，提供用户支持，访问数据，培训和咨询，以促进二次分析。NACDA旨在为所有对保存，共享和支持衰老生命过程数据感兴趣的研究人员提供服务。NACDA旨在代表一种方法，通过这种方法，研究人员可以通过确保他们的数据以标准格式提供给更广泛的研究社区，以确保长期保存和使用，从而最大限度地提高研究过程的研究资金。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) is to create a data infrastructure to stimulate gerontological research. 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 available gerontological database. To fulfill this mission, this application describes NACDA work as it falls within four specific goals: 1) maintain the existing collections of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging and develop it further as a user-friendly data archive to support behavioral and social science research on aging. This goal will be accomplished through the identification, acquisition and preservation of datasets of scientific importance to the gerontological research community. 2) Advise and assist in the documentation and archiving of data and metadata for researchers who are producing data to facilitate their data sharing activities and ensure longterm preservation. NACDA will continue to be an active participant in the research process by developing tools and providing training and support for the preparation of data for secondary users. 3) Advise and assist researchers on methods of sharing data for secondary analysis while providing adequate protections for confidentiality by distributing data and documentation to the research community in formats that facilitate their safe use. 4) Facilitate secondary analysis by providing user support, access to data, and training and consultation through ongoing technological innovations for our web site to improve user access, and our continued high level of direct user support to ensure data user success. NACDA seeks to make services available to all researchers interested in the preservation, sharing and support of data that informs on the aging life course. NACDA seeks to represent a means by which researchers can maximize research funds for the research process by ensuring their data is available to the broader research community in a standard format that ensures long term preservation and use.