ANN ARBOR – The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research will oversee a $38 million investment from the National Science Foundation to create a new data platform that will help researchers in various scientific disciplines access, collect, store, and secure vital information.
Data-intensive scientific research on human behavior and society can help improve community resilience to natural disasters, avoid supply chain disruptions, and accurately predict infectious disease outbreaks, and more. Researchers in many disciplines, however, have faced obstacles like incompatible data standards, missing or error-filled information and technical difficulties in managing large data sets.
The $38 million commitment, developed and funded by the NSF, will establish the Research Data Ecosystem: A National Resource for Reproducible, Robust, and Transparent Social Science Research in the 21st Century. ISR will oversee the creation of new data archives and software researchers can use to access, organize, analyze, and contribute data.
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