Data Sharing and Informatics

• "The replication standard holds that sufficient information exists with which to understand, evaluate, and build upon a prior work if a third party can replicate the results without any additional information from the author." This, and the data sharing to support it, was proposed for political science, along with policy suggestions in Gary King Replication, Replication, (Article: PDF, HTML) PS: Political Science and Politics, with comments from nineteen authors and a response, "A Revised Proposal, Proposal," Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 (September, 1995): Pp. 443-499. (Article: PDF)
• How to write a publishable paper, beginning with a replication; includes a brief update on the "Replication, Replication" debate: Publication, Publication, by Gary King in PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (January, 2006), 119-125. (Abstract: HTML | Article: PDF)
• The Dataverse Network Project: a major ongoing project to write web applications, standards, protocols, and software for automating the process of citing, archiving, preserving, distributing, cataloging, translating, disseminating, naming, verifying, and replicating data and associated analyses (Website: TheData.Org). See also:
1. Gary King. An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing. Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (November, 2007): Pp. 173--199, (Abstract: HTML | Paper: PDF)
2. Micah Altman and Gary King. A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 3/4 (March/April, 2007), (Abstract: HTML | Paper: PDF)
• A symposium on replication, edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch and Claire Metelits, with several articles including mine on The Future of Replication International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February, 2003): Pp. 100-105. (Article: PDF)
• Gutmann, Myron P.; Mark Abrahamson; Margaret O. Adams; Micah Altman; Caroline Arms; Kenneth Bollen; Michael Carlson; Jonathan Crabtree; Darrell Donakowski; Gary King; Jaret Lyle; Marc Maynard; Amy Pienta; Richard Rockwell; Lois Timms-Ferrara; and Copeland H. Young. From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data, Library Trends, 57, 3 (Winter, 2009): 315--337, (Abstract: HTML | Paper: PDF).
• The Virtual Data Center, the predecessor to the Dataverse Network. See:
1. Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel L. Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, M. Krot, and Sidney Verba. A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 2001): Pp. 458-470. (Article: PDF)
2. Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel L. Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, M. Krot, and Sidney Verba. An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software, Proceedings of The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM Press (2001): Pp. 203-204. (Article: PDF)
• Gary King's Replication Data Sets (Website: Data Sets)
• Also see other discussions and information about data sharing and replication.

Related Papers on New Forms of Data

• Gary King. The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research, in Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds., The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives, New York: Routledge Press, 2009, forthcoming. (Chapter: PDF)
• David Lazer; Alex Pentland; Lada Adamic; Sinan Aral; Albert-László Barabási; Devon Brewer; Nicholas Christakis; Noshir Contractor; James Fowler; Myron Gutmann; Tony Jebara; Gary King; Michael Macy; Deb Roy; Marshall Van Alstyne, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Computational Social Science," Science, 323, 5915 (6 February 2009): 721--723. (Paper: PDF).