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:

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