By jajacobs | February 20, 2007
Preserving At-Risk Digital Social Science Data: The Data-PASS Project
This is a webcast of a presentation given on January 26, 2007 by Myron Gutmann at the Library of Congress on the Data-PASS (Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences) project . (Running Time: 60 minutes)
Myron P. Gutmann, professor of history and director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and the principal investigator of the Data-PASS partnership with the Library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.digitalpreservation.gov), gives a briefing on how the project is acquiring and preserving at-risk digital opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys and other social science research data.
- jim jacobs