What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.

As part of a project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to build partnerships between data archives and institutional repositories, ICPSR is conducting a short survey to find out what repositories need or want to improve their ability to manage and archive data.

Your ideas will give us information we need to create services that will make it easier for repositories, such as institutional repositories, to add data to their collections.

The survey should take just 10 minutes, and can be accessed by clicking the link below.

Follow this link to the Survey:

http://umichisr.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_4YJsiX5KRbYMEFC&RID=MLRP_01a0U6tVUYxscHG

You might also be interested in the "Guide to Archiving Social Science Data for Institutional Repositories" that provides guidelines and decision rules for institutional repositories at each stage of the archiving process: from appraisal to acquisition to curation to dissemination.  More information on the project is available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/IR/.  We can be reached at: datasharing(at)icpsr.umich.edu.