IASSIST

Conferences

The annual conference provides data professionals a variety of opportunities to participate in discussions about research data and data support activities. In addition there are regional IASSIST workshops or IASSIST sponsored events.

IASSIST Quarterly

The IQ represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services.

Jobs Repository

The IASSIST Jobs Repository is a record of job descriptions posted to the members' email list from 2005 to the present, providing a communal resource for employers and job-hunters.

Webinars

Community webinars organized by the IASSIST Professional Development Committee.

Discussion list

Our professional communication and news channel. An important source of support for members to query other data professionals.

Membership

Join or manage your membership.

From iBlog

iBlog is IASSIST’s own blog. Entries on various topics are written by our members.

Final Call for Papers: Systemic Racism in Data Practices IASSIST Quarterly

By IQ Editor on June 14, 2021

Final Call: Systemic Racism in Data Practices Inspired by the work of Black scholars, technologists, and activists including Dr. Safiya Noble, Yeshimabeit Milner, and Joy Buolamwini, IASSIST Quarterly is publishing a special issue focusing on systemic racist practices in data. We invite you to submit a proposal that discusses anti-Blackness, anti-indigeneity, white supremacy, and racism against minoritized and marginalized communities in data, research, tools, and practices. Case studies, essays, book reviews, and articles will be considered.

Editor's notes: Joining language with data and data with data

By Karsten Boye Rasmussen on March 29, 2021

Welcome to the IASSIST Quarterly first issue of 2021 and of volume 45 (IQ 45(1) 2021). I always find it interesting to learn more about other research areas. Often, I find approaches in less well-known areas can be transformed and transferred to my own areas, or make me aware of problems unwisely ignored hitherto and becoming potentials. In the case of the first article, you will become aware of the connection with linguistics from a data viewpoint.

Fellows Report by Mr. Bisi Ajibola – Nigeria

By Bisi Ajibola on March 2, 2021

The IASSIST Africa Chapter Workshop held from 11th to 13th of January 2021 at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda was attended physically and virtually by participants from all over the world. The President of IASSIST, Prof. Sandra Cannon and the President of Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Eastern and Southern Africa were among the international personalities that graced the conference. This justified the universality nature of the workshop by attendance, participation, coverage and delivery.

Fellows Report by Joy Judith Nyangoma – Uganda

By Joy Judith Nyangoma on March 2, 2021

This workshop was held at the College of Computing and Information Sciences within Makerere University with participants attending either physically and virtually. Remember, IASSIST has been in existence for 40 years and still growing higher and higher. Several themes were discussed and each participant, according to their presentations, had put in much effort to share at the Africa Regional Workshop. A presentation by Kofi Dokli took my attention because, as they planted maize and backyard farming of, they also did family backyard farming in cucumber and okra, they also found out variances in the weather between northern and southern Ghana.