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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 Fellows Program 2014-15

By StuartIQ

November 12, 2014

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2015 conference in Minneapolis [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/iassist-2015/], 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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Hallelujah and praise the LARD! The first London Area Research Data group meeting

By LHorton

November 10, 2014

LARD is London Area Research Data and this was its inaugural meeting, informally bringing together various people from London based institutions (and as far away as Reading) who are charged in some way with Research Data Management (RDM) - be it research support or repository work. These are my notes, which lack attribution partly because I couldn’t remember where every person was from, and also it wasn’t clear if the meeting was on or off the record.

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Version 4, Research Data Curation Bibliography & the IQ

By robin

September 2, 2014

Another reason to write for the IQ: you might get yourself into Charles Bailey’s prestigious bibliography, at http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm I’m pleased to see no less than 7 IQ articles in the latest version. I didn’t count IASSISTers who published elsewhere but several of those were in the list as well. Research Data Curation Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Houston: Digital Scholarship Version 4: 6/23/2014 Altman, Micah, and Mercè Crosas. “The Evolution of Data Citation: From Principles to Implementation” IASSIST Quarterly 37, no.

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Data Visualization Support Roles

By ALeahey

July 22, 2014

Hello IASSISTers, Since our last entry, the Data Visualization Working Group (DVIG) has been connecting through email to gather information and share knowledge about data visualization tools, best practices, teaching, and events of interest. A major theme of conversation has been open source programming frameworks like R statistical packages to conduct visualization. Many other non-programming tools have also been discussed and shared. The question of tools is not an easy one, and there are a lot out there!

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Statistical Associates Publishing

By Amy West

June 16, 2014

Statistical Associates Publishing is a website that offers guides focused primarily on correctly executing various statistical techniques. The guides are short and provide screenshots and step-by-step instructions for for some of the major commercial statistical packages. One can buy the books - each at very low prices $5USD or less per book from Amazon - or request a free copy from the publisher with some reasonable restrictions on use. I should note that since I don’t spend much time doing statistics myself, I feel a bit unqualified to attest to the quality of the materials.

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IASSIST 2014 conference song

By walterg

June 8, 2014

Sung to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind”; thanks to San, Paula, Bill, and Vince for their suggestions, and Vince, Dan and Kate for helping to drown out my own voice :) If anyone has a video version of this, send me the link, so I can add it here: If you could read my data What a tale these points would tell At Toronto’s IASSIST 40

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IASSIST SIGDMC Annual Report 2013-2014

By SKramer

May 30, 2014

By Carol Perry & Stefan Kramer, co-chairs Last updated: 2014-05-29 by CP The major activity of the Data Management & Curation Interest Group (SIGDMC) in the last year was the conceptualization, organization, submission, and offering of the June 2, 2014, morning workshop Data Management & Curation: Lessons from Government, Academia, and Research. It features seven invited presenters, and session and breakout group moderators from the SIGDMC membership, which also provided input on the breakout group topics.

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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

IASSIST Fellows Program 2014-15

Hallelujah and praise the LARD! The first London Area Research Data group meeting

Version 4, Research Data Curation Bibliography & the IQ

Data Visualization Support Roles

Statistical Associates Publishing

IASSIST 2014 conference song

IASSIST SIGDMC Annual Report 2013-2014

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