Jonathan Crabtree

TL;DR: As information and communication technology has become pervasive in their society, the authors are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources.

TL;DR: The agreements, processes, and infrastructure that provide a foundation for the collaboration to acquire and preserve data from opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys, and other social science studies at risk of being lost to the research community are discussed.

TL;DR: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS), a project supported by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), has increasingly turned its attention from identifying and acquiring legacy and at-risk social science data to identifying ongoing and future research projects that will produce data.

TL;DR: The background and vision for the Data Bridge project are discussed, and an introduction to the proposed SNA algorithms and analytical tools that are relevant for discoverability of long tail science data are presented.

TL;DR: This article provides an overview of the SafeArchive system and describes how a curator can use the tools to generate an archival policy schema and monitor it, simply, and identifies specific TRAC criteria that can be verified automatically, and additional criteria that could be supported through integrated documentation.