The Data-PASS Partnership:Collaboration, Agreements,and More
Myron GutmannICPSRUniversity of Michigan
My Story
• One overall partnership• One Collaboration Agreement (for now)• Effective partnership activities• Multi-faceted set of collaborations:
– Some involve all the partners– Others are partner-to-partner and involve
subsets of the partners
• Question: how to ensure future activities given funding and diverse goals
The Data-PASS Partnership
• ICPSR (Michigan)• Howard W. Odum Institute for Research
in Social Science (North Carolina)• Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research (Connecticut)• Murray Archive/Institute for Quantitative
Social Science (Harvard)• National Archives and Records
Administration (US Government)
Partnership Goals Overview
• Shared Collection Development– Identification– Appraisal– Best location for content– Ingest processing
• Shared Technology– Common catalog– Archive tools
• Long-term preservation– Replication
Articles of Collaboration(Concluded fall ‘05)1. Membership2. Management Structure3. Addition/Withdrawal of Membership4. Subcontracting5. Reporting6. Cost Sharing7. Funding & Accounting Requirements8. Technology
Articles, continued
9. Data & Intellectual Rights10. Transfer Protocols11. Disputes12. Term (Duration)13. Post-Contract Commitments14. Amendments
Now, how it really works…• Operations & Steering Committees
function very well• Lots of informal discussion, with little
reference to the formal agreement• Much all-partner activity & discussion• Much partner-to-partner collaboration• Why?
– Well-developed field with long-standing contacts
– Rapid change requires flexible approaches
All-Partner Activities Follow Original Outline• Collection Development as Core
– Identification, appraisal, best ingest– Gradual progress from past to future
• Technology investment through Harvard’s VDC and Dataverse– Tools– Common Catalog
• Shared replication as critical future activity
Partner-to-Partner Ties have Exceeded Expectations• Roper – NARA USIA Data Project• Roper – Odum – ICPSR work on Private
Research Organizations• Harvard – Odum Technology testing
partnership• Roper – ICPSR Joint Poll Processing
Activities
Challenges for the Future
• How to sustain the future without Library of Congress funding as motive
• Does everything need to be written?• Are we the “Three Musketeers” ?
– Is it “all for one and one for all” all the time?– Or do two-way and three-way collaborations
arise and develop within a broader framework over time?
• In this context, how do we add partners?
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