This Interagency Agreement (IAA) requests renewal funding to continue the National Institute of Justice?s (NIJ) archiving, dissemination, user support, training, and technical supporting activities by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the Nation?s resource for crime and the criminal justice system research data since 1975. For this budget, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data work will be organized according to three task areas.
Task 1 covers the Archiving of data collected from NIJ-sponsored grants or other data at the request of NIJ. Processing of these data collections include producing coherent, well-documented, user-friendly electronic files, which we make available for further analysis through our NACJD Internet Web site and/or through restricted data use agreements. All data are preserved for historical purposes. We consider the preservation of data in perpetuity to be a fundamental part of our mission, thus ensuring that valuable data resources are secured for coming generations of social scientists. Off-site storage of data guarantees that a copy of a data collection will always be available. Task 1 may also involve the continued development of data products as well as the improvement of Internet based search, explore and extract capabilities.
In addition, NACJD will advance the processing plan by expanding when and what is archived for the NIJ. This expansion will broaden NACJD?s focus from one that just processes, preserves, and distributes NIJ?s ?data? after a project is complete, to one that focuses on archiving many project materials systemically developed throughout a project?s ?life cycle.?
Task 2 covers External Relations, which provides the technical assistance and consultation through varied mechanisms with potential and ongoing users of the NACJD data and supporting materials.
Task 3 covers the development and delivery of Training Workshops to facilitate and enhance the use of NIJ sponsored data collections.
Task 4 Center for Disease Control ? Domestic Violence Survey is a study that provided state level data of the incidence of domestic violence and was sponsored by the Center for Disease Control and the data were collected by Research Triangle Institute (RTI). NIJ also sponsored this research and has agreed to support the archiving of the data from this study.
Taken together, these four tasks provide a well-integrated program to use NIJ?s investment in data production to stimulate, assist, and advance research about the prevention and control of crime and the administration of the criminal justice system.