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February 2009

Registration for the IASSIST 2009 is open

Submitted by robin on Tue, 2009-02-24 10:03
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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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Data Walkabout

Submitted by robin on Mon, 2009-02-23 09:04
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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

New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

Submitted by robin on Wed, 2009-02-04 14:12
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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
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Symposium on Institutional Data Services at Edinburgh

Submitted by robin on Mon, 2009-02-02 13:29
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The Edinburgh University Data Library celebrated 25 years of support for staff and students in their discovery, access, use and management of research datasets. On 5 December 2008, following on from the Digital Curation Centre international conference held in Edinburgh that week, friends and colleagues from near and far gathered in the afternoon at the EDINA offices to celebrate the milestone with short speeches and cutting the cake, along with food, drink and toasts. more...

The Digging Into Data Challenge

Submitted by robin on Mon, 2009-02-02 10:49
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The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada.

For more details: http://www.diggingintodata.org/

-- Joel Herndon

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