[Air-L] do we need an aoir data archive

[Stuart Shulman]

JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot:

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp

I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been excellent
supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:

> You mean like Dataverse?
> http://thedata.org/home
>
>
> On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>
> > I brought this up on twitter yesterday.   Perhaps it is time for AoIR to
> start an archive of data for current and future use.  My thought is that
> right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits
> of data, and many do not have access.  As I've said elsewhere, i don't
> actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access
> to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed
> several papers based on proprietary information they could not release...,
> I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the
> spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality.     I also think
> having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier
> for people to get information shared from corporations.
> >
> > However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I
> think it is time to have a discussion.  Personally, I know that I could set
> the infrastructure up without issue.   The website in theory has close to
> unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we
> have limited processor speed.   There are also legal issues, copyright
> issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
> >
> > so do we need something like this?  and if so or if not, why or why not?
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Hunsinger
> > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> > Virginia Tech
> >
> >
> > Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
> --Byron
> >
> >
> >
> >
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