the north american jewish databank (najdb): a rare population archive
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The North American Jewish Databank (NAJDB): A Rare Population Archive. Cindy Teixeira The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research University of Connecticut IASSIST Conference 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. Overview. What is the NAJDB? Challenges Extend of the Collection Accomplishments - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The North American Jewish Databank (NAJDB): A Rare
Population Archive
Cindy TeixeiraCindy Teixeira
The Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchThe Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
University of ConnecticutUniversity of Connecticut
IASSIST Conference 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Overview
• What is the NAJDB?
• Challenges
• Extend of the Collection
• Accomplishments
• Future Plans
• Website Demonstration
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UCONN and the NAJDB
• Summer of 2004, NAJDB moved to the University of Connecticut (UCONN)– United Jewish Communities (UJC)– Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary
Jewish Life at UCONN– Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
(UCONN)
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What is the NAJDB?
• Central Repository for data about the North American Jewry
• Established in 1986– Council of Jewish Federations (CJF)– United Jewish Communities (UJC)– Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
• Website was established in the 1990’s• 2003 the NAJDB moved to Brandeis University
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Goals
• Upgrade NAJDB datasets to today’s standards
• Increase the archival holdings
• Stimulate and facilitate research and teaching
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• Amount of materials
• Time constraints
• Website & downloading of datasets
• Type of usage
• Processing datasets
ChallengesChallenges
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• US National studies (5)– NJPS 1971, 1990, 2000-01– NSRE 2000– NSRI 1990
• US Communities studies (97)
Extend of the CollectionExtend of the Collection
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• While time was ticking away…– Website
• Developing pages• Implementation and development of dataset
downloading• Registration and user agreements
– Processing and Archiving• Addition of DDI elements to the Catalog• Confidentiality and data checks• Documentation and reports
Short-Term AccomplishmentsShort-Term Accomplishments
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AccomplishmentsAccomplishments
• Website and website usage• Processing of Datasets and Reports• Newsletter• Increase knowledge of the NAJDB
– Conferences• ASA August, 2005• AJS December, 2005
– Faculty teaching– Bulletins
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Future Plans
• Determining users needs
• Searchable catalog
• Electronic reading room– Regional, topical, and community size based reports
• Acquisitions– Over 100 documents being prepared for archiving– 38 Canadian reports
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
www.jewishdatabank.org www.RoperCenter.uconn.edu
Contact Information
• NAJDB website– www.jewishdatabank.org
• Roper Center website– www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
• Contact Info– [email protected]