The Dataverse Network Project

Personnel

Principal Investigator

Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University

Project Director, Dataverse Network

Merce Crosas

Developers

Leonid Andreev, Wendy Bossons, Isabelle Chopin, Gustavo Durand, Ellen Kraffmiller, Akio Sone, Robert Treacy, Elena Villalon, Kevin Condon, Michael Heppler, and Ann Starkey

Support personnel

HMDC and IQSS

Partners

History

The Dataverse Network Project is housed at the IQSS. Coding of the DVN software began in 2006. We benefited considerably from our experience with our earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006 and was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library. Some of the VDC code is used in the DVN software to this day. Precursors to the VDC date to 1987, comprising such entities as a stand-alone software guide to local data, preweb software, and tools to transfer cataloging information by FTP to other sites across campus automatically at designated times.