From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data
Author(s)
Gutmann, Myron P.
Abrahamson, Mark
Adams, Margaret O.
Altman, Micah
Arms, Caroline R.
Bollen, Kenneth
Carlson, Michael
Crabtree, Jonathan
Donakowski, Darrell
King, Gary
Lyle, Jared
Maynard, Marc
Pienta, Amy
Rockwell, Richard
Timms-Ferrara, Lois
Young, Copeland H.
Issue Date
2009
Keyword(s)
Digital preservation
National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Social science data
Abstract
Social science data are an unusual part of the past, present, and
future of digital preservation. They are both an unqualified success,
due to long-lived and sustainable archival organizations, and
in need of further development because not all digital content is
being preserved. This article is about the Data Preservation Alliance
for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS), a project supported by the National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(NDIIPP), which is a partnership of five major U.S. social science data
archives. Broadly speaking, Data-PASS has the goal of ensuring that
at-risk social science data are identified, acquired, and preserved, and
that we have a future-oriented organization that could collaborate
on those preservation tasks for the future. Throughout the life of
the Data-PASS project we have worked to identify digital materials
that have never been systematically archived, and to appraise and
acquire them. As the project has progressed, however, it has increasingly
turned its attention from identifying and acquiring legacy and
at-risk social science data to identifying ongoing and future research
projects that will produce data. This article is about the project’s
history, with an emphasis of the issues that underlay the transition
from looking backward to looking forward.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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