MIT Libraries’ Program on Information Science awarded Sloan Foundation grant | MIT News It aims to leverage ongoing multidisciplinary collaborations and theoretical advances in computation, statistics, law, and social science to improve reuse and replicability in empirical social science, promoting archiving of, and access to, large-scale confidential data. The work contributes to the capacity of the libraries to support researchers in managing confidential information.

“Both academic research and information services are increasingly based on detailed digital information about people and their behavior,” Altman says. This project will provide understandable, usable tools and policies for managing confidential research data.”

Altman is joined in the 30-month project by four Harvard collaborators: Merce Crosas, director of data science at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science; Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Gary King the Albert J. This collaboration builds upon a previous successful project supported by a National Science Foundation Frontier grant.

For more information see the Program on Information Science website.