We offer support for managing data through our affiliates, the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive. Our services include:
Through our affiliate, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, we have decades of experience in preparing data for long term preservation, dissemination, and reuse.
We offer one-on-one consultations for faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about organizing, documenting, cataloging and disseminating their data. Our team will work with you to develop a data management, archiving, and dissemination plan appropriate to your particular needs and the needs of project sponsors. And our team can provide assistance to sponsored projects in preparing data for public dissemination.
For inquiries, please contact Dr. Micah Altman, the Archival Director.
IQSS staff are uniquely trained in the rules and regulations that govern information collected about people. We can help you understand how these policies and laws affect the use, storage, and dissemination of data used in your research activities.
We offer one-on-one consultations for faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about managing confidential data. Our team will work with you to develop a secure data management plan appropriate to your particular needs. We are also available to review specific datasets or current/proposed data storage approaches for privacy concerns and general compliance.
More formal training regarding the categorization and handling of confidential data can be requested on a group or indivdiual basis. From time to time, we also offer workshops on this topic.
For inquiries, please contact Dr. Micah Altman, the Archival Director.
As part of our mission to increase collaboration among scientists, we develop infrastructure and tools you can use to store and share your data. The IQSS Dataverse Network is open source software created by IQSS, which gives you the ability to permanently archive your data, while also allowing you to retain complete control over who may access your data, how it is cataloged and if or when it should be removed from circulation. In addition, the Dataverse Network has designed a system that lets other researchers find and cite your data, increasing scholarly recognition for your research. You upload the data and we store it, free of charge.
You can submit data directly through our online data deposit system. While the data is stored on our servers, you can create a Dataverse webpage that looks like part of your personal website. Through this web-based system, you can add and update data easily. You can also control the terms of use and the lists of users or groups authorized to access your materials.
Data hosted through this system is indexed automatically and made available through the international Dataverse Network repository, Harvard's library catalogs, the web, and catalogs and information gateways world-wide. You catalog each dataset through text, links, and/or logos, as desired. Each dataset is also assigned a unique, permanent citation for use in academic literature, including a global unique identifier and a universal numeric fingerprint. The Dataverse Network software reformats every dataset for permanent preservation, and a copy is archived.
All research data is preserved through the generous support of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive endowment.