publications and presentations

Project Guidelines

Data-PASS has documented its policies and procedures for identifying, acquiring, preserving, and making available data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Links to these policies and procedures are found below.

  • Articles of Collaboration (PDF 2.49M)
    October 13, 2005
    Information about the Data-PASS partnership.
  • Content Selection (PDF 28K)
    December 12, 2005
    Information that provides general guidance to project staff as they seek to identify and review potential acquisitions.
  • Appraisal (PDF 21K)
    February 9, 2005
    Information that provides guidance on the appraisal of new materials identified by the partnership.
  • Acquisition (PDF 24K)
    February 21, 2006
    Standards for the work processes associated with the acquisition and common catalog tasks.
  • Metadata (PDF 73K)
    December 15, 2007
    Standards that are being used to allow for information so it can be included in a shared catalog and made available to shared systems.
  • Confidentiality (PDF 41K)
    April 3, 2007
    Policies to maintain data confidentiality of materials acquired for the Data-PASS project.
  • Data Security (PDF 19K)
    Standards for the security of materials acquired for the Data-PASS project.
  • Guide to Handling Fragile Materials (PDF 44K)
    Guidelines for Handling Fragile Materials (e.g. punched cards, magnetic tape, etc.) for Purposes of Data Recovery.
  • Data Deposit Agreement (PDF 76K)
    May 18, 2006
    Agreement that grants permission for Data-PASS, through its Partners, to archive and distribute data collections.
  • Appraisal and Acquisition of Actively Curated Collections (PDF 19K)
    December 6, 2007
    Guidelines for appraising and acquiring actively curated collections.

In keeping with our commitment to share our progress, we will keep this site current with reports and other documents as they are written.

Presentations

2009

Granda, P., Thomas, D., Grasso, C., & Teixeira, C. (2009, April). Common Workflows: Health and Social Science Data Curation Collaborations. DigCCurr Conference 2009, Chapel Hill, NC. Retrieved June 18, 2009, from http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/abstracts.html#granda

Crabtree, J. (2009, February). A Community Approach to Preservation: "Experiences with Social Science Data". Community Approaches to Digital Preservation 2009 meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2008

Altman, M., Beecher, B., Maynard, M., & Crabtree, J. (2008, December). A Platform for Auditable, Distributed, Asymmetric Archival Replication. Presentation at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) 2008 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Pienta, A., Gutmann, M., Hoelter, L., Lyle, J., & Donakowski, D. (2008, August). The LEADS Database at ICPSR: Identifying Important "At Risk" Social Science Data. Roundtable paper presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2008, Boston, MA.

Timms-Ferrara, L. (2008, August). Data-PASS. Poster presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2008, Boston, MA.

Altman, M., & Beecher, B. (2008, July). Multi-Archival Syndicated Storage Platform. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/plenary_custodians_altman.ppt

Pienta, A. (2008, July). Restricted Data in the Social Sciences. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/session1_pienta.ppt

Gutmann, M. (2008, July). The Data-PASS Partnership: Collaboration, Agreements, and More. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/session2_gutmann.ppt

Altman, M., & Crabtree, J. (2008, July). Data-PASS Shared Catalog. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/session10_altman.ppt

Altman, M. (2008, July). Living Collections, Ambient Data. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/plenary_content_altman.ppt

Lyle, J. (2008, July). ICPSR Collection Development: Lessons Learned & Moving Forward. Presentation at the July 2008 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 11, 2008, from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp08/ docs/plenary_content_lyle.ppt

Maynard, M. (2008, May). Solving Study Metadata Puzzles: Case Studies from Roper Center Reprocessing Activities. Paper presentation at the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) 2008 Conference, Palo Alto, CA. Retrieved July 30, 2008, from https://www.stanford.edu/group/ADS/cgi-bin/drupal/solving-study-metadata -puzzles

Crabtree, J. & Sheaves, D. (2008, May). Impact of a Unified Catalog. Poster presentation at the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) 2008 Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

Altman, M. (2008, April). Towards a Data Network for Integrated Social Science Research. Presentation at the Digital Library Federation 2008 Spring Forum, Minneapolis, MN.

Altman, M. (2008, February). Towards a Data Network for Integrated Social Science Research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, MA. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/presentations/aaas_08.ppt

2007

Altman, M. (2007, November). Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination. Poster presented at the Advancing NSDL Networks -- NSDL Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/meeting/archives/2007/poster_abstracts.pdf

Gutmann, M.P., McGovern, N.Y., Beecher, B., & Raghunathan, T.E. (2007, October). How Safe is Safe Enough when we Preserve Social Science Data? Paper presented at the Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://ess.si.umich.edu/papers/paper150.pdf

Crabtree, J., Maynard, M., & Timms-Ferrara, L. (2007, October). Developing Partnerships in the Social Sciences: Data Archives and Private Research Organizations. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://ess.si.umich.edu/papers/paper162.pdf

Pienta, A. (Chair), Adams, M., Altman, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., & Maynard, M. (Panelists). (2007, August). Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration. Session at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.archivists.org/conference/chicago2007/chicago2007prog-Session.asp?event=2201

Altman, M. (2007, June). Preserving Social Science Data Through Archival Collaboration. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association, Washington, DC. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/presentations/ala_07.ppt

Altman, M. (2007, May). Approaches to Data Dissemination and Preservation. Presentation at the International Association of Social Science Information Technology Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.edrs.mcgill.ca/IASSIST2007/presentations/C1(2).ppt

Pienta, A. (Chair), Altman, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., & Maynard, M. (Panelists). (2007, May). Data-PASS: Collaborating to Preserve At-Risk Data. Session at the International Association of Social Science Information Technology Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.library.mcgill.ca/edrs/program.htm#F1

Crosas, M., & Treacy, R. (2007, May). Harvard’s Dataverse Network: A JSF/EJB 3.0 Technology Data Sharing Solution on Java EE 5. Presentation given at the JavaOne conference, San Francisco, CA. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-4656&yr=2007&track=3

Altman, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., & Maynard, M. (Panelists). (2007, April). Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration. Session at DigCCurr 2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, NC. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/altmanEtal_paper_9-1.pdf

Altman, M., & Young, C. (2007, April). Democratizing History On-Line: Moving from Microfilm to Megabytes. Presentation at the American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.

2006

Donakowski, D.W. (2006, October). Sustainable Organizational Models. Panel discussant at the Sustaining Digital Libraries Symposium, Atlanta, GA. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.metascholar.org/events/2006/sdl/viewabstract.php?id=12

Crabtree, J. & Donakowski, D.W. (2006, September). Building Relationships: A Foundation for Digital Archives. Presentation at the 1st European Workshop on the use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL), Alicante, Spain. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.lib.uoa.gr/dorsdl/dorsdl2006-crabtree.ppt

Altman, M. (2006, August). Poster presented at the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.

Pienta, A.M. (2006, August). Classic Social Science Studies to be Archived at ICPSR. Poster presented at the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.

Adams, M. & Granda, P. (Panelists). (2006, August). New Archival Collaborations Between Traditional Government Archives and Academic Data Archives. Session at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.archivists.org/conference/dc2006/dc2006prog-Session.asp?event=1783

Crabtree, J. & Donakowski, D.W. (2006, June). Building Relationships: A Foundation for Digital Archives. Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Chapel Hill, NC. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.ils.unc.edu/tibbo/JCDL2006/Crabtree-JCDLWorkshop2006.pdf

Altman, M. & King, G. (2006, May). A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data. Presentation at the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq30/iqvol302king.pdf

Pienta, A. (2006, May). The LEADS Database at ICPSR: Identifying Important Social Science Studies for Archiving. Presentation at the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.iassistdata.org/conferences/2006/presentations/F2_Pienta.ppt

Pienta, A.M., McNally, J., & Gutmann, M. (2006, March). The Life Cycle of Demographic Data at the LEADS Database at ICPSR. Presented at the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://paa2006.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=61527

2005

Arms, C., Altman, M., Carlson, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., & Maynard, M. (Panelists). (2005, August). Data Archives: Building a Partnership to Preserve the Future of Social Research. Workshop at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Arms, C. (2005, May). Data-PASS: A new effort to harvest our history (funder view). Presentation at the joint conference between the International Association of Social Science Information Technology Annual Meeting and the International Federation of Data Organizations, Edinburgh, Scotland. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.iassistdata.org/conferences/2005/presentations/A2Arms.ppt

Donakowski, D. (2005, May). Data-PASS: A new effort to harvest our history (project update). Presentation at the joint conference between the International Association of Social Science Information Technology Annual Meeting and the International Federation of Data Organizations, Edinburgh, Scotland. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.iassistdata.org/conferences/2005/presentations/A2Donakowski.ppt

2004

Adams, M.O. (Chair), Gutmann, M., Bollen, K., Carlson, M., Young, C., & Rockwell, R. (Panelists). (2004, May). The Future of Social Science Data Archiving in the United States: A Discussion with Five Archive Directors. Plenary at the International Association of Social Science Information Technology Annual Meeting, Madison, WI.

Publications

Gutmann, M., Abrahamson, M., Adams, M., Altman, M., Arms, C., Bollen, K., Carlson, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., King, G., Lyle, J., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., Rockwell, R., Timms-Ferrara, L., & Young, C. (2009). From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data. Library Trends, 57(3). Retrieved May 21, 2009, from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/v057/57.3.gutmann.html

Altman, M. (2009). Transformative Effects of NDIIPP, the Case of the Henry A. Murray Archive. Library Trends, 57(3). Retrieved May 21, 2009, from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/v057/57.3.altman.html

Altman, M., Adams, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., & Young, C. (2009). Digital Preservation Through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences. American Archivist, 72(1). Forthcoming. Retrieved March 13, 2009, from http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/papers/SharedPractices.pdf

Altman, M., Beecher, B., Crabtree, J., Andreev, L., Bachman, E., Buchbinder, A., Burling, S., King, P., & Maynard, M. (2009). A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication. Against the Grain 21(2). Forthcoming.

Altman, M. (2008). A Fingerprint Method for Verification of Scientific Data. Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007, 311-316. Retrieved March 13, 2009, from http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/papers/unfcisse_rev_16_forthcoming.pdf

Altman, M., & King, G. (2007). A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data. D-Lib, 13(3/4). Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march07/altman/03altman.html

Altman, M., & King, G. (2007). An Overview of a Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data. IASSIST Quarterly, 30(2), 18-19. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq30/iqvol302king.pdf

Green, A.G., & Gutmann, M.P. (2007). Building Partnerships Among Social Science Researchers, Institution-based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives. OCLC Systems & Services, 23(1), 35-53. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/41214

King, G., (2007). An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing. Sociological Methods & Research, 36(2), 173-199. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://gking.harvard.edu/files/dvn.pdf

Crabtree, J. and Donakowski, D. (2006). Building Relationships: A Foundation for Digital Archives. Paper presented at JCDL 2006 Workshop: Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://sils.unc.edu/events/2006jcdl/digitalcuration/Crabtree-JCDLWorkshop2006.pdf

Gutmann, M., Schürer, K., Donakowski, D., & Beedham, H. (2004). The Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Social Science Data. Data Science Journal, 3, 209-221. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/209/_pdf