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Session Title: Enhancing the Understanding of the Technology Development and Innovation Process in Firms: Creation of a Data Enclave for Business Dataset
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Panel Session 584 to be held in Room 112 in the Convention Center on Friday, Nov 7, 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM
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Sponsored by the Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation TIG
and the Government Evaluation TIG
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| Brian Zuckerman,
Science and Technology Policy Institute,
bzuckerm@ida.org
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| Abstract:
The Data Enclave allows researchers to access confidential business data securely through a remote access protocol. The enclave combines elements from the computing and social sciences to develop secure remote data access protocols. It also provides researchers with an environment that facilitates collaboration and documentation. This environment, or collaboratory, features wikis, blogs as well as direct interaction with data producers. This not only promotes high quality research, but also promotes the interaction between producers and researchers that creates healthy survey lifecycle in providing feedback to improve survey questions and analysis. This panel session will describe the motivation for building the Data Enclave, the components of the enclave, a demonstration, and preliminary research results to date.
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Fostering the Data Enclave
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| Stephanie Shipp,
Science and Technology Policy Institute,
sshipp@ida.org
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Stephanie Shipp was the Director of the Economic Assessment Office, Advanced Technology Program, when she funded the creation of the Data Enclave. She will talk about the motivation for the Data Enclave, provide a brief description of why she wanted to provide researchers access to ATP data, and the program requirements for researchers to access the data through the enclave. She has a background in managing the analysis of surveys at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau and overseeing the preparation of public use files for release of survey data. These data were often subject to deleting variables or topcoding income to preserve confidentiality. This often had a negative effect on the analysis of data because researchers did not have access to the full dataset.
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Developing the Data Enclave
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| Julia Lane,
National Science Foundation,
jlane@nsf.gov
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Julia Lane was senior Vice-President, NORC/University of Chicago and the Principal Investigator who led the development of the Data Enclave. She provided the creative input into many of the innovative ideas, such as the collaboratory and secure remote access. She will describe the development and the structure of the Data Enclave. She will also highlight findings from researchers who are currently using the Data Enclave in terms of how the Data Enclave and Collaboratory enhanced their research. Julia’s career has focused on new ways to more fully utilize data; for example, she was the architect of the Longitudinal Household-Employee Data project at the Census Bureau which linked demographic and business datasets. She is a well-know labor economist and an international expert on confidentiality issues and data access.
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