Building New Bridges to Enhance Data Discovery

ICPSR has over 60 years of experience archiving data and adhering to FAIR data management principles for the data we hold. But true data discoverability calls for building bridges – establishing connections across systems that help make data more FAIR, no matter where it lives. In this panel presentation, ICPSR staff representing various projects within ICPSR will discuss recent endeavors undertaken by ICPSR archives to promote the discoverability of external data resources alongside ICPSR data and make ICPSR data and related resources findable and interoperable within other platforms.

This panel will highlight and discuss ICPSR projects including: A combination data-and-metadata archive that fosters transparency in health research; Building a data lake to make social media data interoperable across online platforms; Developing a remote cloud computing infrastructure and making the system replicable so other data custodians can also provide trusted research environments; Using DDI Lifecycle to display longitudinal data series and clarify the potential for research harmonization across different collections; Developing an API for improved sharing of study metadata with external platforms; Establishing partnerships that enable the mirroring of and/or linking to data available through other external catalogs.