May 7, 2008 -- The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS), one of the first projects funded by NDIIPP, recently released a new version of its Web site (external link).
Data-PASS describes itself as "a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies."
The Data-PASS project is based at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
The project is supported by an award from the Library of Congress through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
New to this release is a direct link to the partnership shared catalog, which enables anyone to search and browse the entire holdings of most Data-PASS partners. Other significant content includes project guidelines, such as selection criteria and data security standards, created and used by the partnership, as well as publications and presentations by Data-PASS partners. New content will continue to be added to the Web site as Data-PASS continues to identify, acquire and preserve data used for social science research.
Data-PASS is led by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
