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Minutes 2009

Meeting of the General Assembly, Thursday, May 28, 2009, Tampere, Finland

1. Welcome – M Wright, President

2. Approval of the minutes of the previous AGM (2008)

Minutes for 2008 are labeled 2007. Motion to accept as amended passes.

3. Executive Officers Report

Treasurer – J Green more...

Special IQ: Moving Research Data Into and Out of Institutional Repositories

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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Registration for the IASSIST 2009 is open

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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new IQ

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 31 issue 1 - 2007) is now available on the web:

 

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

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 31 issue 1 - 2007) is now available on the web:

 

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

  more...

IASSIST 2008 Accommodations and Registration Reminder

Happy Earth Day to everyone!!

Hope your day is filled with loads of celebratory reducing, renewing, and recycling.

Registration for this year's IASSIST Conference (May 27-30): "Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation" is proceeding at a rumbling pace, and the five conference hotels have been filling with eager California-bound IASSISTers. more...

Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

The Open Data Foundation is pleased to announce that an ODaF Europe 2008 meeting will take place at the UK Data Archive on April 14-15. This regional event is open to all members as well as individuals and agencies interested to learn more about ODaF or to share ideas. For further information and registration, see
http://www.opendatafoundation.org/events/odaf_europe_2008.php more...

The IASSIST 2007 song!

Here it is: music by Leonard Cohen, lyrics by Melanie Wright and company. Now you can sing along to the YouTube video.

Open Data

We made our way to Montreal
Where everybody knows f&*% all
And no one's gonna tell you "see you later."
Admin committee steaming hot
Went on and on 'til we asked what
Does all this have to do with Open Data?

Chorus: Open Data, Open Data,
IASSISTERs / here to cheer / Open Data.

Tuesdays workshops best ones yet
One through six were quite a set
But what were they about? more...

It was the best IASSIST ever!

Until next year of course!

This year's conference is done and Anastassia, Susan, and the wonderful Local arrangement folks at McGill are probably breathing a sigh of relief! Lots of informations was presented and some of it was absorbed! more...

Session D3: views from near a plug....

Your trusty blogger attended Data Access Questions:  Open and Shut (session D3).   She assumed that, as an august member of the blogging press, she would be afforded a primo seat.  But no, she again found herself sitting on the floor in the corner, next to another fake potted palm!  Thank heavens the session was moved to a neighboring room—larger and with a microphone. Obviously, a popular session on the challenges of working with data agreements from the perspectives of acquisition and user support. more...

  • Iassist Quarterly

    Publications

    The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 32 2008 contains a collection of the 1, 2, 3, and 4 issues into a single issue for 2008 in order to catch up with our schedule. more...

  • Resources

    Resources

    A space for IASSIST members to share professional resources useful to them in their daily work. Also the IASSIST Jobs Repository for an archive of data-related position descriptions. more...

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