Producing Archive-Ready Datasets: Compliance, Incentives, and Motivation

TitleProducing Archive-Ready Datasets: Compliance, Incentives, and Motivation
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsHedstrom, M., Niu J., & Marz K.

Gap Area Study Type:

High-level Gap Areas:

Purpose: 
Investigated effort researchers are willing to put into preparing data for deposit into an archive and incentives to induce researchers to improve the quality of data and metadata deposited
Method: 
Surveyed 170 researchers funded by the National Institute of Justice, which requires deposit of data in an established archive (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research-NAJCD)