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

Stuart Shulman stuart.shulman at gmail.com
Fri May 6 13:13:01 PDT 2011


And we have a replication policy for qual & quant datasets:

http://www.jitp.net/m_replicat.php

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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