Data Security Standards: Integrity and Availability

Overview

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) was formed to take shared responsibility for the long-term accessibility to social science datasets that are of value to current and future researchers and policy-makers. To maintain accessibility and support dissemination, the quality and integrity of the information within and about a data collection must be controlled throughout the various stages in its life-cycle. This paper outlines standards for the security of materials acquired for the Data-PASS project. Based on current security procedures already in place at each organization, these standards protect against the destruction and loss of the data, whether through natural disasters, fire, vandalism and/or error.