Faculty at Grinnell generate valuable numeric datasets in the course of research and teaching, but there is no system currently in place for capturing this data and making it available to a wider audience. At this lunch we will demonstrate and discuss DataVerse, a system developed by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, to preserve and disseminate this data. Would Grinnell faculty find this system useful, and what policy issues might using it raise? Everyone who works with data that fits in a spreadsheet and who is interested in having this type of data more widely shared is invited!

Facititators: Richard Fyffe and Julia Bauder

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008

Attending:
Bill Francis
Janet Gibson
Leslie Gregg-Jolly
Kathy Kamp
Shonda Kuiper
Katherine McClelland
Gemma Sala
Marci Sortor
Barb Trish
Gregg Whitworth
Wei-Hsin Fu