NACDA Podcast 1 - Introductions to NACDA Team and a Bit of Organizational History

This first NACDA podcast is an introduction to the NACDA team – Director James McNally and Data Project Manager Kathryn Lavender.

• They discuss their professional history with NACDA and ICPSR, as well as some history of data archiving at NACDA and ICPSR. Find out more about NACDA and ICPSR.
• NACDA is the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging at ICPSR at the University of Michigan and is funded by the National Institute on Aging.
• NACDA’s mission is to advance research on aging by helping researchers to share and discover a broad range of datasets for secondary analysis.
• NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research (kind of like a data library), curating the data as needed to promote effective research use, and disseminates them to the research community (free of charge). By preserving and making available the largest library of electronic data on aging in the United States, NACDA offers opportunities for secondary analysis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance.
• The focus of this podcast series is to connect with the gerontological research community. We will highlight data resources, researchers and principal investigators in order to talk through data concerns as well as learn the stories behind the projects.