Blogs

IASSIST 2016 Conference Papers Announcement

By ALeahey

May 25, 2016

Hello IASSISTers, Thank you for the outstanding participation in this year’s Conference Paper Competition! We received a lot of quality submissions that will be presented next week at IASSIST 2016 in Bergen, Norway. In advance of the conference, and on behalf of the Program Committee, I’d like to announce the winners and runner-ups for the 2016 Conference Paper Award: Congratulations to Sophia Lafferty Hess and Thu-Mai Christian from ODUM for their paper titled “More Data, Less Process: The Applicability of MPLP to Research Data”!

Read the blog

IASSIST 2016 Program At-A-Glance, Part 2: Data infrastructure, data processing and research data management

By ESmith

May 6, 2016

Here’s another list of highlights from IASSIST2016 which is focusing on the data revolution. For previous highlights, see here. Infrastructure For those of you with an interest in technical infrastructure, the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur will showcase an early protype MMRepo (1 June, 3F), whose function is to store qualitative and quantitative data into one big data repository. The UK Data Service will present the following panel “The CESSDA Technical Framework - what is it and why is it needed?

Read the blog

New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New?

By bordelon

May 5, 2016

New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New? We are excited to have new members in IASSIST. IASSIST is a home for data services professionals across many disciplines: librarians, data archivists, open data proponents, data support staff, etc. For some, it is an organization where you don’t have to explain what you do because our members already understand. We get metadata, data support, data access issues, database challenges, the challenge of replication and so much more!

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

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!

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

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.

Read the blog

IASSIST 2016 Conference Papers Announcement

IASSIST 2016 Program At-A-Glance, Part 2: Data infrastructure, data processing and research data management

New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New?

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

Search

Tags