Data Services Since the 1960's: Where are We Going?

IASSIST Quarterly Introduction Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a Workshop on the Management of a Data and Program Library to promote the establishment of local university social science data archives. Although organized in only a few weeks, the Workshop attracted 100 people from 50 different institutions in the U.S. and Canada. We even had one person from Sweden, indicating the deep roots of Swedish Aarchival data activity. A few institutions already had data archives, and within a very short time, all did.