Factors in Aging: Development Research Resources

描述（由申请人提供）：NACDA的使命是促进老年科学的智力活力。我们通过项目工作人员的活动来实现这一目标，这些工作人员在领导项目团队的既定研究人员的指导下，以及来自更广泛的研究社区的越来越多的NACDA研究成员，指导NACDA收购目标。NACDA打算在下一个五年项目期间实现四个具体目标： 1)首先，NACDA将获取和保存对老年学研究界具有科学重要性的数据集，特别是在纵向数据、国际数据、少数民族老龄化数据、历史数据和其他不易获得的数据方面。这将需要集中努力，鼓励研究人员分享和存档他们的数据，供更广泛的科学界使用。NACDA在培训、提供资源和工具方面的活动培育了社会科学界的数据共享和归档文化，并促进了其发展。 2)第二，NACDA将以便于使用的形式向研究人员分发数据和文件，并将以有效和具有成本效益的方式分发。这将涉及创建比原始数据制作者创建的版本更容易使用的数据和文件产品，并继续在使用新的数据存储和传输模式方面发挥领导作用。新的技术和呈现策略，如我们的在线书目，可变级别的搜索能力，以及正在进行的网络增强将显着提高我们的数据在未来几年的活力。 3)第三，NACDA将为NIA资助的研究人员提供支持和帮助，以促进他们的数据共享活动和长期保存无价的数据。NACDA将继续积极参与研究进程，特别是在开发工具、培训和支持为二级用户编制数据方面。在接下来的五年里，我们将加强这些服务，使这一过程更加容易，并将实施创新的解决方案，认识到研究人员用于共享数据的方法的多样性。 4)第四，NACDA将提供用户支持和技术服务，以促进老年学的二次数据分析。作为这一目标的一个方面，我们认为，在我们的网站内整合搜索和分析工具，可以提高研究人员利用档案中所含大量数据的能力。作为这一具体目标的一部分，NACDA将改造其现有的收藏，为流行的分析软件包提供随时可用的系统文件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NACDA's mission is to contribute to the intellectual vitality of the gerontological sciences. We accomplish this through the activities of the project staff under the guidance of established researchers who lead the project team, and a growing body of NACDA Research Affiliates drawn from the broader research community guiding NACDA acquisition goals. NACDA intends to accomplish four specific aims over the next five-year project period: 1) First, NACDA will acquire and preserve datasets of scientific importance to the gerontological research community especially in the areas of longitudinal data, international data, data on minority aging, historical data, and data that are otherwise not readily available. This will require a focused effort to encourage researchers to share and archive their data for use by the wider scientific community. NACDA's activities in training, and the provision of resources and tools have nurtured the culture of data sharing and archiving within the social science community and facilitated its growth. 2) Second, NACDA will distribute data and documentation to researchers in a form that will facilitate their use, and will do so in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This will involve the creation of data and documentation products that can be used more easily than the versions created by the original data producer and continued leadership in the use of new modes of data storage and transmission. New technologies and presentation strategies such as our online bibliography, variable level search capacity, and ongoing of Web enhancements will significantly improve the vitality of our data in the coming years. 3) Third, NACDA will provide support and assistance to NIA-funded researchers who are producing data, in order to facilitate their data sharing activities and the long-term preservation of the priceless. NACDA will continue to be an active participant in the research process, particularly in the realm of developing tools, training and support for the preparation of data for secondary users. During the next five years we will enhance these services to make the process easier, and will implement innovative solutions that recognize the diversity of approaches that researchers are using to share their data. 4) Fourth, NACDA will provide user support and technical services to facilitate secondary data analysis in gerontology. As an aspect of this goal, we see the integration of search and analysis tools within our Web site as enhancing the ability of researchers to utilize the array of data contained in the archive. As part of this specific aim, NACDA will retrofit its existing collection to make available ready to use system files for popular analysis software packages.