IASSIST

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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

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From iBlog

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

Opening remarks for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference

By Robin Rice on June 14, 2025

It is an IASSIST tradition for the President to give opening remarks at the first plenary of the annual conference. Below are Robin Rice“s opening remarks on 4th June in Bristol, England, for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference, as the outgoing President for 2025. Good morning and welcome to IASSIST 2025: Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future. A great theme for our 50th anniversary conference, and more prophetic than I would have guessed when the Programme Committee came up with it back in the autumn of 2024, but that’s a thought for another time.

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IASSIST Celebrates 50 Years and 50 Conferences!

By Meryl Brodsky on June 2, 2025

At the IASSIST 2024 conference, the Organizational Archive Action Group was formed to commemorate IASSIST’s 50th anniversary conference: IASSIST 2025. Action Group members included: Margaret (Peggy) Adams, Meryl Brodsky, James Capobianco, Michele Hayslett, Thomas Lindsay, Christine Nieman Hislop (IASSIST Archivist & Action Group Coordinator), Zac Painter, Cindy Severt, and Wei Yin. Oral History Project The Action Group decided to take on two projects in preparation for the conference. One was to conduct oral history interviews with long-time IASSIST members.

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Editors’ notes: Reflecting on past practice and research to innovate

By IQ Editor on March 29, 2025

Welcome to the first issue of IASSIST Quarterly for 2025, IQ vol. 49(1) 2025 . We are excited to welcome two new members to our Editorial Team, Mary Carter, the Finance and Operations Research Librarian at Princeton University, and Jessica (Jess) Hagman, the Social Sciences Research Librarian and an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mary and Jess have graciously volunteered to serve as our new Managing Editors and will share the responsibility.

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From risk to rescue: Securing data for the future generations

By Bobray Bordelon on February 20, 2025

IASSIST members work to discover, curate, make available, and keep data available. At the beginning of February, IASSIST Secretary Lynda Kellam started an internal Google document for her university to keep track of USA federal data that was disappearing and data rescue efforts. While many were concerned and downloading data individually, efforts were often being duplicated while other data was disappearing and at risk of being lost. IASSIST members were inquiring as were members of sister organizations including RDAP and the Data Curation Network.

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