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IASSIST 2015: Blog Post from a Data Librarian in Minneapolis

By LHorton 2

June 15, 2015

“Hey Charlie I’m pregnant and living on 9th Street”. Wait. I don’t know anyone called Charlie. I’m not pregnant and this isn’t 9th Street. I’m living in a dorm room at University of Minnesota contemplating how I managed to end up back in dorm living before succumbing to assisted living. The reason? IASSIST 2015. What follows is my take on this Aquarian Explosion: 3 Days of Data & Music. By the time we got to Minnesota we were a couple of hundred strong.

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New IQ now available!

By StuartM

June 1, 2015

**Editor notes: ** Data, the whole Data, and nothing but the Data … and the Metadata, and the Access to Data Welcome to the third issue of volume 38 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 38:3, 2014). This issue is unquestionably about data. There are three papers on projects for improving delivery of data to users. The first paper is ‘Distributing Access to Data, not Data’ by David Schiller from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at Nuremberg (Germany) and Richard Welpton at UK Data Archive, University of Essex (UK).

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Winner announced for first IASSIST Paper Competition

By robin

May 29, 2015

Dear IASSIST Members, In our call for this year’s conference we included a new Paper Track that would require members to submit a full paper in advance of the conference. We also created a best paper competition as an incentive to submit. I have the pleasure to announce a winner of our first IASSIST Paper Competition! The winning paper was “Sustainability of Social Science Data Archives: A Historical Network Perspective” by Kristin R.

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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Notes from RDMF13: Preparing Data for Deposit

By LHorton 2

May 1, 2015

The Digital Curation Centre’s most recent Research Data Management Forum took place last week in London. UK Data Service’s Louise Corti began the day with an overview of their acquisitions process. The Service (under various names) is almost 50 years old that gives it experience and perspective many institutions do not have. Lessons from those years include the importance of a collections development policy that’s allowed to evolve. The Archive evaluates on a basis of teaching and re-use for validation and replication.

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IASSIST election results, 2015

By robin

April 17, 2015

Hello IASSISTers! Here are the official results of the 2015 IASSIST elections. There was a 61% voter turnout. The winning candidates are: President: Tuomas Alaterä Vice President: Jen Green Secretary: Ryan Womack Africa Regional Secretary: Lynn Woolfrey Asia-Pacific Regional Secretary: Sam Spencer Canada Regional Secretary: Carol Perry Europe Regional Secretary: David Schiller USA Regional Secretary: San Cannon AC Member, Canada: Berenica Vejvoda AC Members, Europe: Oliver Watteler and Arne Wolters

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“You can’t have a democratic society, without having a good data base.”

By plackie@carleton.edu

April 9, 2015

Janet L. Norwood, former US Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, dies On the passing of this iconic defender of the neutrality of public data, I am struck how important Janet Norwood was to establishing a sound path for data advocacy as well as reminded of how necessary it is to have continuous education about this topic. In fact, swimming in ready-access to data as we are today, it’s especially important that we, as data professionals, remain alert to and defend a couple of aphorisms:

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Spring forward! The Jisc Research Data Spring programme

By LHorton

March 2, 2015

On 26/27 February, I attended Jisc Data Spring “Sandpit 1” in the English city of Birmingham. Data Spring is a funding programme supporting UK based projects in Research Data Management (RDM), and something of a successor to the successful Managing Research Data programmes (MRD) that did so much to get RDM training and tools underway in the UK’s education sector. Unlike the traditional proposal-evaluation-funding model, Data Spring takes a more collaborative, interactive approach, splitting the programme into separate stages at which projects may no longer receive funding.

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A decade against decay: the 10th International Digital Curation Conference

By LHorton

February 17, 2015

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is now ten years old. On the evidence of its most recent conference, is in rude health and growing fast. IDCC is the first time IASSIST decided to formally support another organisational conference. I think it was a wise investment given the quality of plenaries, presentations, posters, and discussions. DCC already has available a number of blogs covering the substance of sessions, including an excellent summary by IASSIST web editor, Robin Rice.

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University of British Columbia Library: Research Data Management (RDM) Website

By mingluwang

December 19, 2014

University of British Columbia Library release their Research Data Management (RDM) website at http://researchdata.library.ubc.ca/. The website is designed to be service-oriented. Four sections, Learn; Plan; Share and Find guide users to the RDM advice and systems solutions that meet their current needs. The Learn section includes a DataGuide (CC BY 3.0) - a quick standalone guide developed to get people started on Research Data Management, which could be re-used and adapted.

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Chronology of data library and data centres

By l.martinez-uribe

November 20, 2014

A few days ago I asked on the IASSIST mailing list for some help in order to find out dates of creation of data libraries, data centres and such services. It was overwhelming to receive answers from colleagues from everywhere with dates and some other useful information about the establishment of local data support and national services. Newton, author of Chronology of Kingdoms There is a wealth of information in this community around these issues and with the increasing importance of data services we need to make sure we collect and make this information accessible.

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IASSIST 2015: Blog Post from a Data Librarian in Minneapolis

New IQ now available!

Winner announced for first IASSIST Paper Competition

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Notes from RDMF13: Preparing Data for Deposit

IASSIST election results, 2015

“You can’t have a democratic society, without having a good data base.”

Spring forward! The Jisc Research Data Spring programme

A decade against decay: the 10th International Digital Curation Conference

University of British Columbia Library: Research Data Management (RDM) Website

Chronology of data library and data centres

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