SRDA Community Platform Development

The Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA) of Academia Sinica has Taiwan's largest collection of survey data. The collection comes from both the academics and government agencies. Since its establishment in 1994, SRDA has become an important resource for teaching and research. In order to facilitate resource sharing among researchers and to reduce the time and energy individual researchers have to put in for similar and complex analysis tasks, we propose to build an SRDA platform for learning and sharing in quantitative research methods. The platform has two objectives. First, it allows SRDA members to share programs, written by themselves, by uploading it, assigning it to one or more purpose Track and describing its contents and purposes in words. Other members can search for a specific program by using the purpose Track and by searching in the descriptions. Those who contribute programs will manage their own files, so that only the most recent versions are available. Second, it allows members to post comments or questions, whether specific to a program or not, and all members can respond. Members and visitors can also learn by searching in these questions and responses.