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#IDCC17: Notes from the International Digital Curation Conference 2017

By LHorton 2

April 3, 2017

For the third time IASSIST sponsored the International Digital Curation Conference. This time allowing three students, one each from Switzerland, Korea, and Canada to attend the conference, which titled itself “Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation workflows for data science, scholarship and society”. Data science was a strong theme of the three keynote presentations, in particular how curation and data management are an active, integrated, ongoing parts of analysis rather than a passive epilogue in research.

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IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 40-2 is now on the website: Revolution in the air

By mhayslett

February 27, 2017

Welcome to the second issue of Volume 40 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 40:2, 2016). We present three papers in this issue. https://iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist/issue/view/105 First, there are two papers on the Data Documentation Initiative that have their own special introduction. I want to express my respect and gratitude to Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). Joachim (Achim) and Mary Vardigan (University of Michigan) have several times and for many years communicated to and advised the readers of the IASSIST Quarterly on the continuing development of the DDI.

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IASSIST's Statement in Response to President’s Executive Order on Visas and Immigration

By t.alatera

February 13, 2017

February 13, 2017 Statement of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST at http://iassistdata.org) in response to President Trump’s January 27 Executive Order on Visas and Immigration, titled “PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES”. The recent executive order on visas and immigration issued on January 27th by US President Trump is of grave concern to IASSIST as an organization. IASSIST, the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology, is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology, libraries, data services and research & higher education to support open science, advocate for responsible data management and use, build a broader community surrounding research data, and encourage the development of data professionals.

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IASSIST Call for Event Sponsorship Proposals

By h.mooney

January 3, 2017

The IASSIST Liaison and Organizational Sponsorship Task Force is seeking proposals for sponsorships of regional or local events during calendar year 2017. The goal of these sponsorships is to support local networks of data professionals and data-related activities across the globe in order to help support IASSISTers activities throughout the year and increase awareness of the value of IASSIST membership. Events should be a gathering of data professionals from multiple institutions and may vary in size and scope from workshops, symposia, conferences, etc.

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IASSIST sponsors IFLA 2016 Knowledge Management conference

By SAcadia

October 21, 2016

IASSIST proudly sponsored a full-day conference about knowledge management (KM) on August 12, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA at the University of Cincinnati. The theme of the conference was Sharing Practices and Actions for Making Best Use of Organizational Knowledge in Libraries.The conference took place as part of the International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) annual conference held this year in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The KM conference featured two keynote speakers: Valerie Forrestal, author of the 2015 book Knowledge Management in Libraries, and Jay Liebowitz, whose most recent book Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management was published just this year.

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IASSIST 2017 Call for Proposals Now Open!

By mhayslett

October 17, 2016

We are delighted to announce the call for proposals for the IASSIST 2017 Conference. IASSIST 2017 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Data in the Middle: The common language of research The 43rd annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held in Lawrence, Kansas from May 23-26, 2017. #iassist17 Many issues around data (sources, strategies, and tools) are similar across disciplines. While IASSIST has its roots in social science data, it has also welcomed discussions over the years of other disciplines' issues as they relate to data, data management, and support of users.

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Notes from the second Jisc Research Data Network event

By LHorton 2

September 30, 2016

Jisc held their second Research Data Network event in Cambridge. I went along to take notes. Danny Kingsley gave an overview of why data sharing is important, which was useful as introduction for those new to this, and a refresher of first principles to the more experienced. The day then moved into parallel sessions on aspects of the network’s activity. The Research Data Shared Service is an initiative to help intuitions with RDM infrastructure.

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IQ 40:1 Now Available!

By mhayslett

September 20, 2016

Our World and all the Local Worlds Welcome to the first issue of Volume 40 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 40:1, 2016). We present four papers in this issue. The first paper presents data from our very own world, extracted from papers published in the IQ through four decades. What is published in the IQ is often limited in geographical scope and in this issue the other three papers present investigations and project research carried out at New York University, Purdue University, and the Federal Reserve System.

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Feel the Berg! IASSIST 2016

By LHorton 2

June 7, 2016

The conference began with a reception from the Mayor of Bergen, beautifully performed Norwegian folk song, and dissent over the conference hashtag (it was #iassist16). The next morning data talk began with Gudmund Hernes. His plenary theme is data availability or the latest “revolution” is, as it always has, causing a shift in power. The role of IASSISTers and data archives should be to “keep the record straight”. UK Data Service Director Matthew Woollard’s plenary offered a similar theme of adjustment to a changed data world.

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Sr. Policy Analyst for European data policy issues (Brussels)

By mhayslett

June 6, 2016

Senior Policy Analyst The Center for Data Innovation, a Washington, DC-based non-profit, non-partisan public policy think tank, is recruiting a senior policy analyst to join its team as a full-time consultant to focus on European data policy issues. The position will be based in Brussels.

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#IDCC17: Notes from the International Digital Curation Conference 2017

IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 40-2 is now on the website: Revolution in the air

IASSIST's Statement in Response to President’s Executive Order on Visas and Immigration

IASSIST Call for Event Sponsorship Proposals

IASSIST sponsors IFLA 2016 Knowledge Management conference

IASSIST 2017 Call for Proposals Now Open!

Notes from the second Jisc Research Data Network event

IQ 40:1 Now Available!

Feel the Berg! IASSIST 2016

Sr. Policy Analyst for European data policy issues (Brussels)

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