JEDI Governance

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Sponsorship and Hosting

JEDI is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (award 2032661), and sponsored by five members of the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data‐PASS). Data-PASS is a voluntary partnership of organizations created to archive, catalog, and preserve data used for social science research.

The five Data-PASS members taking the lead on organizing JEDI are:

JEDI is hosted by QDR. Hosting entails providing technical support, managing the resources required for JEDI’s operation, and moderating the mailing list.

Shared Governance

JEDI policies will be decided by a group consisting of editors of five social science journals and representatives from the repositories that organized JEDI, and one ex officio member from the team engaged in active administration of the list.

Steering committee (alphabetized by first name)

  • Colin Elman, Journal Editors Discussion Interface, Syracuse University
  • Elizabeth Chin, American Anthropologist, Art Center College of Design
  • Felix Elwert, Sociological Methods and Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Lars Vilhuber, American Economic Association, Cornell University
  • Layna Mosley, International Organization, Princeton University
  • Margaret Levenstein, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan
  • Rick Gilmore, Databrary, Pennsylvania State University
  • Sebastian Karcher, Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University
  • Simine Vazire, Collabra, University of Melbourne
  • Stefano Iacus, Dataverse Project, Harvard University
  • Thomas Nelson Laird, The Review of Higher Education, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Thu-Mai Christian, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Volkan Topalli, Criminology, Georgia State University