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来促进老年学研究。通过开发和提供研究资源和数据服务，NACDA提醒研究人员进行二次数据分析的机会，提供查找和访问相关材料的工具，并增强可用的老年学数据库。为了完成这一使命，本应用程序描述了NACDA的工作，因为它属于四个具体目标：1)维护国家老龄化计算机数据档案的现有馆藏，并进一步将其发展为一个用户友好的数据档案，以支持老龄化的行为和社会科学研究。这一目标将通过识别、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)为产生数据的研究人员提供数据和元数据的文件和归档建议和协助，以方便他们的数据共享活动并确保长期保存。国家数据中心将继续积极参与研究进程，为编制二级用户的数据开发工具并提供培训和支助。3)建议和协助研究人员共享数据进行二次分析的方法，同时通过以有利于安全使用的格式向研究界分发数据和文件，为保密性提供充分的保护。4)通过不断的技术创新，为我们的网站提供用户支持、数据访问、培训和咨询，促进二次分析，以改善用户访问，并继续提供高水平的直接用户支持，以确保数据用户的成功。NACDA旨在为所有对保存、共享和支持老化生命过程相关数据感兴趣的研究人员提供服务。NACDA试图代表一种方法，通过确保他们的数据以一种确保长期保存和使用的标准格式提供给更广泛的研究界，研究人员可以最大限度地为研究过程提供研究资金。

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.