1 / 10

The Data-PASS Partnership: Collaboration, Agreements, and More

The Data-PASS Partnership: Collaboration, Agreements, and More. Myron Gutmann ICPSR University 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

janna
Download Presentation

The Data-PASS Partnership: Collaboration, Agreements, and More

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Data-PASS Partnership:Collaboration, Agreements,and More Myron Gutmann ICPSR University of Michigan

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. Partnership Goals Overview • Shared Collection Development • Identification • Appraisal • Best location for content • Ingest processing • Shared Technology • Common catalog • Archive tools • Long-term preservation • Replication

  5. Articles of Collaboration(Concluded fall ‘05) • Membership • Management Structure • Addition/Withdrawal of Membership • Subcontracting • Reporting • Cost Sharing • Funding & Accounting Requirements • Technology

  6. Articles, continued • Data & Intellectual Rights • Transfer Protocols • Disputes • Term (Duration) • Post-Contract Commitments • Amendments

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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?

More Related