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Check out this week's Fifth Wave cartoon:

http://www.gocomics.com/thefifthwave/2009/06/21

A week has passed since IASSIST 2009. I hope most of you have made it safely back home by now - and are ready to refresh the memories by watching the conference webcasts and viewing presentations. Webcasts of all three plenaries and Thursday and Friday's concurrent sessions in the Small Auditorium are now available. We didn't have cameras available during the Wednesday sessions, so no videos of these presentations, sorry! more...

As you may have heard during last week’s wonderful IASSIST meeting in Tampere, there are still spaces available in the ICPSR Summer Program course on DDI, to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on July 13-16. The course is titled “Documenting Data Using DDI 3.0: Supporting Research, Collection Management, and Access,” and instructors are Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota) and Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation). more...

The IASSIST Quarterly IQ Vol. 31 issue 3&4 is now available on the web:

http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html

This issue will only be available on the web. There will be no printed version mailed out to the membership.

The IASSIST Quarterly IQ Vol. 31 issue 3&4 is now available on the web:

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Several weeks ago, Google contacted me at BLS to let us know they were using some of our data in a launch of a new service in data visualization.  Their plan is to make as much data available as possible with as rich a tool set as they can provide.  To see an example, enter the phrase "US Unemployment Rate" in the Google search box.  The top link sends you to a page that allows you to superimpose historical graphs of unemployment rates down to any county in the US.  There is a link at the bottom of the page for "Information for Publishers" for people interested in l more...

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 31 issue 2 - 2007) is now available on the web:

http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html

This issue will be printed and mailed to the membership. From next issue IASSIST will be saving trees and only publish the IQ on the web. We hope you agree with our decision. Thanks.

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We've created a Twitter feed for conference info, updates and impressions. See it at http://twitter.com/IASSIST2009 or  there's a link on the program page.

Before the conference, it will be mostly logistic and planning information.  At the conference, IASSISTers will be tweeting about the conference itself:  comments, suggestions, updates, and other twitter-friendly information.
We've got a few volunteer tweeters but more are always welcome. more...

Tervetuloa Tampereelle,
Welcome to Tampere!

Registration for the 2009 IASSIST conference is now officially open. On the conference web site there is more information on registration, accommodations and excursions.

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A series of posts on the DataShare blog describing the interest and action in Australian University Libraries around new forms of support for data management, from an IASSIST member's study tour of New Zealand and Australian institutions in January 2009.
Robin Rice
Project Manager
DISC-UK DataShare project

The UK Data Archive would like to announce the release of its new suite of web pages providing guidance on data management and sharing. The pages provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets. Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic. These are:

· Sharing data - why and how?
· Consent, confidentiality and ethics
· Copyright
· Data documentation and metadata more...