http://www.data-pass.org/"The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is
a voluntary partnership of organizations created to archive, catalog
and preserve data used for social science research. Examples of social
science data include: opinion polls; voting records; surveys on family
growth and income; social network data; government statistics and
indices; and GIS data measuring human activity."
Many of the datasets are publicly available. The collaboration to
pull this off is astonishing, as is the agreements developed to govern
collaboration. In addition, data were recovered from punch cards,
tapes, digitization and re-cataloguing.
The preservation of these data are another way to ensure access to
data. These are not all open data for a variety of legacy datasharing
agreements, irrespective, seeing these initiatives points out the
nascent nature of our open data work, and also provides us with
examples of interesting models upon which we can develop portals and
foster collaboration between jurisdictional as well as thematic based
open data initiatives.
Cheers
t
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Tracey P. Lauriault
Post Doctoral Fellow
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriaulthttp://datalibre.ca/613-234-2805
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