- 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
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.
Thanks to the Library of Congress (PA#NDP03-1), the National Institutes of Aging (P01 AG17625-01), the National Science Foundation (SES-0318275, IIS-9874747), the Harvard University Library, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and the Murray Research Archive.
Special thanks to Ella Michelle King, who won the contest to name our project, and to Pitney Bowes and The Forbin Group, Inc. for trademark assistance.