CAPS Seminar: Panel presentation – Archiving Social and Behavioral Data on Aging
Please join us for a presentation hosted by the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute Center for Aging Policy Studies (CAPS):
CAPS Seminar: Panel presentation – Archiving Social and Behavioral Data on Aging featuring Dessi Kirilova, James McNally, and Merril Silverstein
Dec 03, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Dessi Kirilova is a political scientist by training and currenlty serves as the senior curation specialist of the Qualitative Data Repository.
James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan.
Merril Silverstein is a Professor of Sociology and Human Development and Family Science and the Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging at Syracuse University.
In this panel presentation, the process of qualitative and quantitative data archiving is discussed using the Longitudinal Study of Generations as an example. Two archives are represented: Qualitative Data Repository (QDR, www.qdr.org) is an archive dedicated to qualitative data and data underlying multi-method inquiry. QDR is the only repository of its kind in the U.S. – dedicated specifically to curating and archiving qualitative data and attuned to the requirements and concerns of qualitative researchers, their materials and sources. The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (nacda-aging.org) is housed at the University of Michigan and contains over 1500 studies related to health and aging.
Join by using this Zoom Hyperlink for this Seminar.
Check out the LSOG Data by visiting the LSOG Study Page from the NACDA site.
Nov 22, 2021