Principal Investigator: Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University

Senior Manager of Software Development: Merce Crosas

Developers: Leonid Andreev, Wendy Bossons, Isabelle Chopin, Gustavo Durand, Ellen Kraffmiller, Akio Sone, and Robert Treacy

Supporting Cast: at HMDC and IQSS

Research Support: Thanks to the Library of Congress (PA#NDP03-1), the National Institutes of Aging (P01 AG17625-01), the National Science Foundation (SES-0318275, IIS-9874747), the Harvard University Library, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and the Murray Research Archive.

Naming: Special thanks to Ella Michelle King, who won the contest to name our project, and to Pitney Bowes and The Forbin Group, Inc for trademark assistance.

History: The Dataverse Network is a new project housed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), with its software written from scratch beginning in 2006. We benefited considerably from our experiences with our earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006 and was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library. Precursors to the VDC date to 1987, and ranged from a stand-alone software guide to local data up to and including pre-web software to ftp cataloging information automatically to other sites across campus at designated times.