Sci-Tech Core-Maryland Population Research Center

科技核心-马里兰州人口研究中心

• 批准号: 10478246
• 负责人: Heide Marie Jackson
• 金额: $ 13.91万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-05 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10478246
• 关键词: Maryland; Population Research

The Scientific and Technical Core (STC) aims to provide MPRC associates with the computational resources and technical support necessary to conduct cutting-edge population research. The STC is designed to deliver services to faculty that are not offered by their individual units on campus, including access to secure data enclaves for restricted and confidential datasets, hosting web sites for data dissemination and archiving, and offering training and consultation services in statistical programming and data management. Through its computer lab, the STC provides access to specialized software that may not be available to researchers in their academic departments. The core also offers a platform on which to run computationally-intensive jobs. The STC facilitates collaboration by allowing faculty associates and external affiliates to share large datasets through a secure storage area network. In the next grant cycle, the STC anticipates expanding its support for the use of restricted datasets for which it maintains two secure data enclaves and provides remote secure-data computing and secure data storage services. The STC will also play a critical role in promoting the use of the recently-established Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) at the University of Maryland. The FSRDC is one of the most exciting university-wide initiatives that gives researchers access to highly-restricted social, demographic and health-related data sources, including datasets linking individuals to administrative records. The STC will play a key role in disseminating information about the data available at the FSRDC through three planned conferences over the next five years, and by assisting researchers in their application for access to the restricted data. MPRC staff will also provide formal and informal programming support to faculty associates interested in using the FSRDC. To evaluate its effectiveness in meeting faculty demands in the next grant cycle, the STC will collect detailed information on usage of its services, and conduct surveys of all associates every two years. The STC is directed by Andres Villarreal (Sociology), a social demographer with extensive knowledge of statistical and computational methods.

科学技术核心 (STC) 旨在为 MPRC 同事提供计算资源 以及进行尖端人口研究所需的技术支持。 STC 旨在提供 为教师提供校园内各个单位未提供的服务，包括访问安全数据 受限和机密数据集的飞地，用于数据传播和归档的托管网站，以及 提供统计规划和数据管理方面的培训和咨询服务。通过其 计算机实验室，STC 提供对研究人员可能无法使用的专用软件的访问 他们的学术部门。该核心还提供了一个运行计算密集型作业的平台。 STC 通过允许教职员工和外部附属机构共享大型数据集来促进协作 通过安全的存储区域网络。在下一个拨款周期中，STC 预计将扩大对以下项目的支持： 使用受限数据集，为其维护两个安全数据飞地并提供远程安全数据 计算和安全数据存储服务。 STC 还将在促进使用该技术方面发挥关键作用。 马里兰大学最近成立了联邦统计研究数据中心 (FSRDC)。这 FSRDC 是最令人兴奋的全校范围内的举措之一，它使研究人员能够获得高度受限的研究成果 社会、人口和健康相关数据源，包括将个人与行政管理联系起来的数据集 记录。 STC 将在传播有关 FSRDC 可用数据的信息方面发挥关键作用 通过未来五年计划举行的三场会议，并协助研究人员进行应用 用于访问受限数据。 MPRC 工作人员还将提供正式和非正式的规划支持 对使用 FSRDC 感兴趣的教职员工。评估其在满足教师需求方面的有效性 在下一个拨款周期，STC 将收集有关其服务使用情况的详细信息，并对 所有员工每两年一次。 STC 由社会人口学家 Andres Villarreal（社会学）领导 具有丰富的统计和计算方法知识。