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Data Sharing and Informatics
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:
- 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)
- 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:
- 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)
- 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).