Curation Tools and Services
QualAnon
A Web-based program to anonymize qualitative data — such as interview transcriptions, typed field notes, or other records.
DataUp
An open-source add-in (extension) for Microsoft® Excel and an open-source web application that: ensures data are well formatted and organized, creates standardized metadata, retrieves a unique identifier, and posts the data file and associated metadata to a repository.
Disclosure Review
A service provided by ICPSR to review data for disclosure issues and then make recommendations for treatment.
Security Plan Reviews
A service provided by ICPSR to review data security plans -- for both ICPSR and non-ICPSR data use agreements.
Security Inspections
A service provided by ICPSR to audit research sites -- for both ICPSR and non-ICPSR data use agreements.
Virtual Data Enclave
A virtual data enclave (VDE) is hosted and managed at ICPSR for restricted-use data that require output vetting. Through the VDE, restricted data can be securely accessed through a private network connection to a portal on a desktop computer.
Physical Data Enclave
For data containing highly sensitive personal information, ICPSR provides an on-site physical enclave in the basement of the Perry Building in Ann Arbor.
Nesstar Publisher
A free program that can be used for the preparation of data and metadata
Dataverse Network
An open-source, free application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data.
Google Refine
A power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, and transforming it.
Colectica for Microsoft Excel
A free tool to document your spreadsheet data using the DDI metadata format, the open standard for data documentation.