Micah Altman Ph.D.

Non Resident Senior Fellow

The Brookings Institution

Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Discipline
Social Sciences
Interests
Social and Information Scientist
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About

Dr. Micah Altman is Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Altman is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Prior to arriving at MIT, Dr. Altman served at Harvard University for fifteen years as the Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.

Dr. Altman conducts research in social science, information science and research methods -- focusing on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.
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Publications

  • Joint Principles for Data Citation

    Data Synthesis Task Group (Altman M, Archer P, Borgman C, Brand A, Brase J, Callaghan S et al.

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  • The Evolution of Data Citation: From Principles to Implementation

    Altman M, Crosas M

    IASSIST Quarterly (2014)

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  • Public Participation GIS : The Case of Redistricting

    Altman M, Mcdonald M

    Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2014)

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  • OUT OF CITE , OUT OF MIND : THE CURRENT STATE OF PRACTICE , POLICY , AND TECHNOLOGY

    Altman M, Arnaud E, Borgman C, Callaghan S, Brase J, Carpenter T et al.

    Data Science Journal (2013)

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  • National Agenda for Digital Stewardshp

    Altman M, Bailey J, Cariani K, Corridan J, Crabtree J, Dessy B et al.

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  • D ‐ Lib Magazine NDSA Storage Report : Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies Diverse Partnership , Common Goals Key Findings

    Altman M, Cariani K, Gallinger M, Mandelbaum J, Owens T

    D-Lib Magazine (2013)

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  • A Half-Century of Virginia Redistricting Battles: Shifting from Rural Malapportionment to Voting Rights to Public Participation

    Altman M, Mcdonald M

    Richmond Law Review (2013)

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  • “Mitigating Threats To Data Quality Throughout the Curation Lifecycle

    Altman M

    Curating For Quality (2012)

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  • Principles for Transparency and Public Participation in Redistricting

    Altman M, Mann T, Mcdonald M, Ornstein N

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  • Redistricting Principles for the Twenty-First Century

    Altman M, Mcdonald M

    Case-Western Law Review (2012)

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  • Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®

    Altman M

    Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: Report from an International Workshop (2012)

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  • Commentary : Micah Altman on How Participatory Technology Is Changing Redistricting

    Altman M

    TechPresident (2012)

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  • Miller v Johnson

    Altman M

    Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (2004)

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  • The Virtual Data Center

    Altman, Micah; Leonid Andreev; Mark Diggory; Elizabeth Kolster; Michael Krot; Gary King; Daniel Kiskis ; Akio Sone S

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  • accuracy: Tools for testing and improving accuracy of statistical results

    Altman M, Gill J, McDonald M

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  • DistrictBuilder

    Altman M, McDonald M, Jennings A, Shephard K, Zwarg D

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  • Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age

    Novak K, Altman M, Broch E, Carroll J, Clemins P, Fournier D et al.

    Computer Science and Telecommunications (2011)

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  • SafeArchive -- A System for Policy Based Archival Replication

    Altman M, Bachman E, Crabtree J, McGovern N, Sone A

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  • Overview of SafeArchive : An Open-Source System for Automatic Policy-Based Collaborative Archival Replication

    Christian T, Crabtree J, Mcgovern N, Altman M

    iPres (2011)

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  • Using the SafeArchive System : TRAC-Based Auditing of LOCKSS

    Altman M, Crabtree J

    Archiving 2011 (2011)

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  • Data-PASS

    Altman M

    New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation (2011)

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  • Technology for Public Participation in Redistricting

    Altman M, McDonald M

    Redistricting and Reapportionment in the West (2012)

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  • The Dawn of Do-It-Yourself Redistricting ?

    Altman M, McDonald M

    Campaigns & Elections (2011)

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  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Statistical Software

    Altman M, Jackman S

    Journal Of Statistical Software (2011)

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  • Gerrymandering

    Altman M

    Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society (2012)

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  • Pulling Back the Curtain on Redistricting (Op-Ed)

    Michael McDonald M

    The Washington Post (2010)

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  • Measuring the difference between white voting and polling on interracial marriage.

    Klinkner M

    Du Bois Review (2006)

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  • Heuristics

    Altman M

    The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011)

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  • Overview of the virtual data center project and software

    Altman M, Andreev L, Diggory M, King G, Kolster E, Sone A et al.

    JCDL '01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (2001)

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  • Overview of a proposed standard for the scholarly citation of quantitative data

    Altman M, King G

    IASSIST Quarterly (2006)

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  • AIS: Ad Indicia Spectate, software version 1.0

    Altman M

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  • The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990

    King G, Palmquist B, Adams G, Altman M, Benoit K, Gay C et al.

    ICPSR [distributor] (1997)

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  • Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts (Book Review)

    Altman M

    American Political Science Review (2000)

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  • Battles That Shaped the Computer Industry (Book Review)

    Altman M

    Law and Politics Book Review (2000)

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  • An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software

    Altman M, Verba S

    Proceedings of the The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 01) (2001)

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  • Digital Libraries

    Altman M

    The Handbook of Public Information Technology (2008)

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  • A Comparison of the Numerical Properties of EI Methods

    Altman M, Gill J, McDonald M

    Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies (2005)

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  • Resources for the Testing and Enhancement of Statistical Software

    Altman M, McDonald M

    The Political Methodologist (1999)

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  • Districting principles and democratic representation

    Altman M

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  • From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the challenges of preserving digital social science data

    Gutmann M, Abrahamson M, Adams M, Altman M, Arms C, Bollen K et al.

    Library Trends (2009)

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  • Software

    Altman M

    Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (2004)

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  • Funding, Funding.

    Altman M

    PS: Political Science & Politics (2009)

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  • Current research in voting, elections, and technology

    Altman M, Klass G

    Social Science Computer Review (2005)

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  • How to set a random clock: remarks on Earnest (2006)

    Altman M, McDonald M

    PS: Political Science and Politics (2006)

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  • Computational Modeling

    Altman M

    The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011)

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  • Research Design

    Altman M

    The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011)

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  • BARD: Better automated redistricting

    Altman M, McDonald M

    Journal Of Statistical Software (2011)

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  • URN: An R-Package for Resampling without Replacement, software version 1.0

    Altman M

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  • Accuracy: tools for accurate and reliable statistical computing

    Altman M, Gill J, McDonald M

    Journal of Statistical Software (2007)

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  • Statistical Package

    Altman M

    Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004)

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  • Pushbutton Gerrymanders: How computers changed redistricting

    Micah Altman Karin Mac Donald, McDonald M

    Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting (2005)

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  • Point, Click and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (book review)

    Altman M

    Journal of E-Government (2004)

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  • A Bayesian approach to detecting electoral manipulation

    Altman M

    Political Geography (2002)

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  • Numerical issues in statistical computing for the social scientist

    Altman M, Gill J, McDonald M

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  • Usability testing of the {Virtual Data Center}

    Hovater J, an Micheal Krot M, M D, Holland I

    Second ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (in usability workshop) (2002)

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  • UNF, software version 1.13

    Altman M

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  • Choosing Reliable Statistical Software

    Altman M, McDonald M

    PS Political Science Politics (2002)

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  • A review of JMP 4.03 with special attention to its numerical accuracy

    Altman M

    American Statistician (2002)

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  • Traditional Districting Principles : Judicial Myths Vs . Reality

    Altman M

    Social Science History (1998)

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  • Open Research Questions on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics – Beyond 'E-'

    Altman M, Rogerson K, U D

    PS Political Science Politics (2008)

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  • The Promise and Perils of Computers in Redistricting

    Altman M, MCDONALD M

    Duke J Const Law Pub Poly (2010)

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  • Is automation the answer: The computational complexity of automated redistricting

    Altman M

    Rutgers Computer and Law Technology Journal (1997)

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  • The Limitations of Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Gerrymanders: Indicia, Algorithms, Statistics and Revealed Preference

    Altman M, McDonald M

    Social Science Research Network (2007)

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  • A digital library for the dissemination and replication of quantitative social science research: the Virtual Data Center

    Altman M, Andreev L, Diggory M, King G, Sone A, Verba S et al.

    Social Science Computer Review (2001)

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  • Open source software for libraries: from Greenstone to the Virtual Data Center and beyond

    Altman M

    IASSIST Quarterly (2001)

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  • An Introduction to the Special Volume on Political Methodology

    Altman M, Fox J, Jackman S

    Journal Of Statistical Software (2011)

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  • A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication

    Altman M, Beecher B, Crabtree J

    Against the Grain (2009)

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  • Modeling the effect of mandatory district compactness on partisan gerrymanders

    Altman M

    Political Geography (1998)

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  • A Fingerprint Method for Scientific Data Verification

    Altman M

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007 (2008)

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  • From Crayons to Computers: The Evolution of Computer Use in Redistricting

    Altman M, MacDonald K, McDonald M

    Social Science Computer Review (2005)

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  • Transformative Effects of NDIIPP, the Case of the Henry A. Murray Archive

    Altman M

    Library Trends (2009)

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  • Replication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy

    Altman M, McDonald M

    Political Analysis (2003)

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  • Digital Preservation Through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences

    Altman M, Crabtree J, Donakowski D, Maynard M, Pienta A, Young C

    The American Archivist (2009)

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  • Digital Preservation through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences

    Altman M

    American Archivist (2009)

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  • A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data

    Altman M, King G

    DLib Magazine (2007)

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Professional experience

Non Resident Senior Fellow

The Brookings Institution

May 2010 - Present

Associate Director, Harvard-MIT Data Center

Harvard University

Present

Director of Research & Head/Scientist, Program on Information Research -- MIT Libraries

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Present

Archival Director

Murray Research Archive, Harvard University

Present

Senior Research Scientist, IQSS

Harvard University

February 2012

Member of the Technical Staff (Software Developer, HPC)

Silicon Graphics

January 1990 - August 1992 (2 years 7 months)

Education history

Harvard University

Postdoctoral Fellow

Present

California Institute of Technology

Ph.D.

August 1992 - June 1998 (5 years 10 months)

Brown University

A.B., Computers Science; A.B. Political Philosohpy

August 1985 - June 1989 (3 years 10 months)
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