At CORD, we aim to promote the development, dissemination and use of data pertaining to public and other organizations. In the spirit of open science, many CORD projects produce datasets that can be used by others, following an embargo period. Some of the available data sets focus on a wide variety of organization types, whereas others are focused on knowledge-based organizations, especially universities and academic researchers.
CORD can also serve a central depository for data developed elsewhere, including for federally-funded research datasets intended for public use. Anyone interested in having CORD house its data (exclusively or non-exclusive) can submit a “data sharing request” form. Contributors must warrant their ownership of the data and their rights to dissemination. In some cases, CORD staff will provide data cleaning services and will assist in the development of codebooks and in the provision of data in multiple formats.