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White Paper Urges New Approaches to Assure Access to Scientific Data

By robin

December 23, 2013

Press release posted on behalf of Mark Thompson-Kolar, ICPSR. 12/12/2013: (Ann Arbor, MI)—More than two dozen data repositories serving the social, natural, and physical sciences today released a white paper recommending new approaches to funding sharing and preservation of scientific data. The document emphasizes the need for sustainable funding of domain repositories—data archives with ties to specific scientific communities. “Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: A White Paper,” is an outcome of a meeting convened June 24-25, 2013, in Ann Arbor.

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Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy | Featuring IASSISTers!

By Amy West

December 19, 2013

Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy An OCLC Research Report by: Ricky Erway, OCLC Research Key highlights: The benefits of funder-required data management planning should apply to all research data Research and Compliance Offices, IT, Academic units, the Library, and Researchers should be involved in setting policy An entrepreneurial person may need to get things going—why not the library director? Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy is a call for action that summarizes the benefits of systemic data management planning and identifies the stakeholders and their concerns.

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IASSIST 2014 Conference Submission Deadline EXTENDED to December 20

By LHorton

December 10, 2013

By popular request (and due to the tight holiday schedule this year), the IASSIST 2014 Conference Programme Committee has extended the conference submission deadline! Submissions for all formats are now due December 20, 2013. Thank you for all of your submissions to date, we look forward to the review. Please let us know if you have any questions - email. Best, Program Chairs Jen Green Johan Fihn Chuck Humphrey (And in case this is new to you…)

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IASSIST Fellows Program 2013-14

By StuartM

November 19, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2014 conference in Toronto [http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/iassist/], 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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IASSIST 2014 Call for Papers

By robin

November 14, 2013

ALIGNING DATA AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IASSIST 2014 Annual Conference Call for Paper and Session Proposals This year’s conference theme touches upon the international and interdisciplinary requirements of aligning data and research infrastructure. The 2013 OECD Global Science Forum report on New Data for Understanding the Human Condition identifies key challenges for international data collaboration that beg for new solutions. Among these challenges is the mounting pressure for new forms of social science data.

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Meta-listings of Research Data Repositories

By k.mcneill

November 13, 2013

Several organizations have begun compiling lists of repositories of research data. These can be useful for researchers both to consider where to deposit their data, as well as for discovery for secondary data use. DataBib Tool to identify repositories of research data. Users can search (including field-level searching) or browse by subject or title. Each entry provides a description, standardized subjects, access, start date, and country, among other qualities. Anyone is able to suggest or edit repository listings, which then are reviewed and committed by an editorial board.

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re3data.org and OpenAIRE sign MoU during Open Access Week; new re3data.org features

By k.mcneill

November 13, 2013

Last month, OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) and re3data.org signed a Memorandum of Agreement to “work jointly to facilitate research data registration, discovery, access and re-use” in support of open science. OpenAIRE is an infrastructure for open access that works to track and measure research output (originally designed to monitor EU funding activities). re3data.org is an online listing of research data repositories. re3data.org and OpenAIRE will exchange metadata in order for OpenAIRE to “integrate data repositories indexed in the re3data.

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Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

By DHaans

October 1, 2013

CRDCN Database Builder Splash Screen The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is pleased to announce the release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder. In collaboration with Statistics Canada and Metadata Technology North America, the Dataset Builder allows researchers working (or intending to work) in a Canadian RDC the ability to browse, search for and select variables in the Statistics Canada surveys currently housed in the RDCs. Utilizing DDI Lifecycle metadata, the Dataset Builder allows researchers to find and select variables, as well as produce SAS, SPSS or Stata syntax to help read in and format the variables, and produce customized documentation (Layout and Codebooks) for the dataset they create using the app.

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Scientific Data Repositories Issue Call for Change on Funding Models for Data Archives

By robin

September 27, 2013

For Immediate Release September 16, 2013 Contact: Mark Thompson-Kolar, 734-615-7904 mdmtk@umich.edu (Ann Arbor, MI) — Representatives of 25 organizations that archive scientific data today released a Call for Action urging the creation of sustainable funding streams for domain repositories — data archives with close ties to scientific communities. The document was developed after a meeting of data repositories across the social and natural sciences June 24-25, 2013, in Ann Arbor. The meeting was organized by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and supported by the Alfred P.

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I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

By LHorton

September 17, 2013

I’m just in the process of updating who we follow from our @iassistdata twitter account (we follow members who follow us - when I get round to updating things, sorry). Given the huge* number of followers we now have, (595, thank you one and all) I thought it would be interesting to see what we looked like according to our twitter bios. No surprises: we define ourselves as data people or organisations, in terms of “research”, “librarian” (and library related terms), “social” “science”, “digital”, “information”, and “universities”.

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White Paper Urges New Approaches to Assure Access to Scientific Data

Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy | Featuring IASSISTers!

IASSIST 2014 Conference Submission Deadline EXTENDED to December 20

IASSIST Fellows Program 2013-14

IASSIST 2014 Call for Papers

Meta-listings of Research Data Repositories

re3data.org and OpenAIRE sign MoU during Open Access Week; new re3data.org features

Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

Scientific Data Repositories Issue Call for Change on Funding Models for Data Archives

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

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