University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina’s Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Data Archive will collaborate with partners from the National Network of State Polls to demonstrate the feasibility of a highly streamlined and timely workflow for getting research data into data archives. The project addresses a long-standing problem: There are often very long gaps between when electronic research data are produced and when archiving decisions are made. Many data sets are lost or damaged during this period. Bridging this gap between data producers and archives will help preserve many data sets that would otherwise be lost. The technology needed to bridge the gap already exists, so this project will focus on new ways to promote the technology and archiving services to scholars.