Gary King has an interesting post on the IQSS blog for those who have collected research data and made it available to others. "Its nice when people thank you, but it would be nicer to receive formal scholarly citation credit and web visibility for your hard work. The Dataverse Network project is designed to get you that credit and visibility.
The idea is to give you a free "dataverse" (your view of the universe of data) -- which is a virtual archive where you can store, permanently preserve, and distribute your data (or list data from other dataverses) with everyone or only those you approve. Your dataverse is branded as yours, with the look and feel of your web site and on your web site, but since it is served out by an installation of the Dataverse Network at Harvard you needn't install any software or hardware."
For an example, go to King's homepage at http://gking.harvard.edu and click on dataverse. To get your own dataverse, go to the IQSS Dataverse Network, http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu. For more information, see http://TheData.org.
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