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Interested in the “data revolution” and what it means for research? Here’s why you should attend IASSIST2016

By ESmith

May 3, 2016

Part 1: Data sharing, new data sources and data protection IASSIST is an international organisation of information technology and data services professionals which aims to provide support to research and teaching in the social sciences. It has over 300 members ranging from data archive staff and librarians to statistical agencies, government departments and non-profit organisations. The theme of this year’s conference is “Embracing the ‘data revolution’: opportunities and challenges for research” and it is the 42nd of its kind, taking place every year.

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IASSIST will be at RDAP!

By h.mooney

April 27, 2016

For those of you attending the RDAP Summit next week in Atlanta, GA, USA, be sure to keep an eye out for IASSIST. We are a sponsoring organization—check out the advance thank you blog post from RDAP. Our VP, Jen Green, will be on the scene with promoting IASSIST at the poster session. Be sure to stop by to say “hi” and pick up your very own IASSIST logo button. Looking forward to hearing the report back from RDAP!

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2016 IASSIST Fellowships

By StuartM

April 12, 2016

The IASSIST Fellows Committee are pleased to announce that we will be awarding an IASSIST Fellowship award for the 2016 conference to the following recipients: Marijana Glavica - Systems Librarian, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia ‘As a systems librarian I work with bibliographic data and manage library automation systems. I am also involved in designing library policies and procedures. As a subject specialist I provide information services to psychology professors and students, and I teach a course about information resources in psychology.

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Latest Issue of IQ Available! Data Documentation Initiative - Results, Tools, and Further Initiatives

By mhayslett

March 24, 2016

Welcome to thethird issue of Volume 39 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 39:3, 2015). This special issue is guest edited by Joachim Wackerow of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany and Mary Vardigan of ICPSR at the University of Michigan, USA. That sentence is a direct plagiarism from the editor’s notes of the recent double issue (IQ 38:4 & 39:1). We are very grateful for all the work Mary and Achim have carried out and are developing further in the continuing story of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), and for their efforts in presenting the work here in the ASSIST Quarterly.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian Opening at Kansas City Fed

By San

March 11, 2016

Please see the announcement below for a new position created here in the Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City . It will be part of the content support team that works with our technology specialists to support, enhance and advance data or computationally intensive research in economics. This position reports to me and has supervisory responsibility for our library staff.

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International Digital Curation Conference 2016 (IDCC16)

By LHorton

March 7, 2016

The International Digital Curation Conference 2016 was in Amsterdam between 23-24 February. IASSIST was again a sponsor, and presented a poster on IASSIST members' activities. In addition, plenty of familiar faces were present including our current IASSIST president and three former ones. This year’s conference was the eleventh IDCC and took the title of “Visible data, invisible infrastructure”. This asks what can we do to make the hard work of preserving data and making it and keeping it usable as easy as possible for researchers to use and as unobtrusive as possible in their work.

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Share Your Story: Case Studies of Data Reuse

By SWright

February 23, 2016

Late last year, a colleague at Innovations for Poverty Action, Stephanie Wykstra, and I started having conversations about reuse of open data and what we do and don’t know about the re-use of existing data sets, particularly which data sets and how they are used. We are also interested in the specific challenges researchers face as they try to re-use data sets collected for other research purposes. Stephanie and I would like to start filling this gap so we are putting out a call for case studies.

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IASSIST Quarterly back issues all online

By mhayslett

January 28, 2016

Dear Friends, The IASSIST Communications Committee is very happy to announce that the back issues of IQ – ALL of the back issues, back to 1976 – are now available on the IASSIST web site. In the left sidebar where you are able to select from a few back issues, you may recall there is a link at the bottom to More issues. That link can now transport you back to the early days of the association.

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Data Viz Position at UNC at Chapel Hill

By mhayslett

January 13, 2016

Please see the announcement below for a new position created here in the Libraries at UNC at Chapel Hill. It will be based in our Digital Research Services Department (you’d get to work with me and a bunch of other great people!) supporting the mission of our Research Hub in Davis Library. Note that there is a requirement for an advanced degree, but a master’s or PhD in a related subject field is admissible in place of a library degree.

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IASSIST Fellows Program 2015-16

By StuartM

December 14, 2015

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2016 conference in Bergen [http://iassist2016.org/] from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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Interested in the “data revolution” and what it means for research? Here’s why you should attend IASSIST2016

IASSIST will be at RDAP!

2016 IASSIST Fellowships

Latest Issue of IQ Available! Data Documentation Initiative - Results, Tools, and Further Initiatives

Digital Scholarship Librarian Opening at Kansas City Fed

International Digital Curation Conference 2016 (IDCC16)

Share Your Story: Case Studies of Data Reuse

IASSIST Quarterly back issues all online

Data Viz Position at UNC at Chapel Hill

IASSIST Fellows Program 2015-16

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