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[VDC Logo] An open-source, digital library to enable the sharing of quantitative research data, and the development of distributed virtual collections of data and documentation.

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Harvard-MIT Data Center's "Virtual Data Center Project"

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Current and Former VDC Team Developers and HMDC Team Members
Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Dawn Brancati, Shawn Bunn, Sean Carey, Matthew Cox, Merce Crosas, Mark Diggory, Meghan Dolan, Laslo Gulyas, Jessica Hovater, Dawn Isabel, Gary King, Earl Kinney, Dan Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, Ellen Kraffmiller, Michael Krot, Kelly Krout, Yuri Mansury, Heather McMullen, Michael New, Katherine McNeill-Harman, Akio Sone, Ahmer Tarar, Sidney Verba, William Wei

Other Code Contributors
Ben Pfaff, Cheri Minton

Special Thanks -- Funding Partners, Sponsors and Test Sites
Digital Libraries Initiative; Data Documentation Initiative Alliance; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Harvard University, Library Digital Initiative; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Technology Office; International Consortium for Political and Social Research; Library of Congress, Digital Library Initiatives; National Aeronautics & Space Administration; National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Library Initiative; National Library of Medicine, Extramural Programs; National Science Foundation; University of Michigan; World Health Organization.

Open Source and Open Standards Acknowledgments
Apache (Jakarta, Web Server and XML), AWStats, Cheshire, Data Documentation Iniative, GNU, The Handle System, JPackage, Open Archives, OpenLDAP, Perl, PostGres, R Language, Redhat, SourceForge, Squid, Yum

Principal Investigators
Micah Altman, Department of Government, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Sidney Verba, Department of Government, Harvard University Library

Supported by NSF Award #IIS-9874747

About this VDC node
 RedHat Linux version 3AS running on i386

Last Updated or Installed: Saturday, August 5, 2006 12:09:28 PM.
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About VDC

What is the VDC?

The VDC (Virtual Data Center) is an open-source, digital library to enable the sharing of quantitative research data while supporting the distributed virtual collections of data and documentation.

Who is behind it?

The VDC was initiated at the Harvard-MIT Data Center and is supported by funding from NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative. More information is available in the VDC web site for those who are interested in learning more. While the project was initiated at Harvard, other social science libraries are actively encouraged to download the VDC and use it for their own purposes. The VDC code and license information is available for download from SourceForge.net. After installing, libraries are encouraged to customize the VDC to suit their organization's needs.