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IASSIST 2013 Fellows update

By l.martinez-uribe

March 20, 2013

This year the IASSIST Fellows Committee received a grand total of 44 Fellows applications from a strong range of candidates from 28 countries around the globe: 18 Asia 13 Africa 7 Europe 3 North America 2 Latin America 1 Australia Applications have been evaluated by the IASSIST Fellows Committee and offers have been made to a number of prospective Fellows to attend the annual conference in Cologne, Germany. We shall announce the names of those who have accepted the Fellows awards shortly.

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Some reflections on research data confidentiality, privacy, and curation by Limor Peer

By michellehudson

March 7, 2013

Some reflections on research data confidentiality, privacy, and curation Limor Peer Maintaining research subjects’ confidentiality is an essential feature of the scientific research enterprise. It also presents special challenges to the data curation process. Does the effort to open access to research data complicate these challenges? A few reasons why I think it does: More data are discoverable and could be used to re-identify previously de-identified datasets; systems are increasingly interoperable, potentially bridging what may have been insular academic data with other data and information sources; growing pressure to open data may weaken some of the safeguards previously put in place; and some data are inherently identifiable.

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In search of: Best practice for code repositories?

By San

March 5, 2013

I was asked by a colleague about organized efforts within the economics community to develop or support repositories of code for research. Her experience was with the astrophysics world which apparently has several and she was wondering what could be learned from another academic community. So I asked a non-random sample of technical economists with whom I work, and then expanded the question to cover all of social sciences and posed the question to the IASSIST community.

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North American DDI Conference April 2013

By l.hoyle

January 23, 2013

Registration is now open for NADDI 2013 (http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/). The North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) is an opportunity for those using DDI and those interested in learning more about it to come together and learn from each other. Patterned after the successful European DDI conference (EDDI), NADDI 2013 will be a two day conference with invited and contributed presentations. This conference should be of interest to both researchers and data professionals in the social sciences and other disciplines.

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40 years of IASSIST Conferences: Toronto to host IASSIST 2014

By robin

January 18, 2013

IASSIST Members, I’m pleased to announce that IASSIST’s 40th anniversary conference in 2014 has been awarded to the city where it all started - Toronto, Canada! Come join us to celebrate June 3-6, 2014, where local hosts from Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and York University are looking forward to quoting Tourism Toronto’s greeting of “Welcome to Toronto! We’ve been expecting you!” Meanwhile, our friends at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences are gearing up to host IASSIST 2013 in Cologne, Germany from May 28 –31.

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(U.S.) C2ER offering Basic Analyst training in March in DC

By mhayslett

January 10, 2013

The Council for Community and Economic Research will be offering Basic Analyst Training in March in Washington, DC. Expensive reg, but looks interesting. +———————————————————————–+ | [Register](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=77370702&msgi | | d=989721&act=28M5&c=364653&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fc2er.org%2Fevents | | %2FRegistration.asp%3Faction%3Dregform1%26Event_Id%3D90) | | | | (Limited seats available) | | | | The purpose of this training is to enhance the knowledge, skills and | | abilities of those new to community and economic development | | research. This training provides an overview of key data sources and | | effective techniques to conduct research in support of economic | | development strategies.

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The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto

By k.mcneill

January 2, 2013

On May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas (UNT), a group of technologists, librarians, scholars, researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. This declaration bridges the converging interests of these stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries. Declarations that emerged included the following: Open access to research data is critical for advancing science, scholarship, and society.

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An evaluation of the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

By Amy West

December 20, 2012

About a month ago I put some initial reactions to the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index into a public note. I received some requests to do a more formal version of the same and have finally been able to do so at http://z.umn.edu/trdci. It’s a Google Doc that should be public and should allow comments. Our trial period ended in early December and it may be that some of the problems I describe have since been resolved.

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IASSIST Fellows Application Form 2013

By StuartM

December 4, 2012

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2013 conference in Cologne [http://www.iassist2013.org/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. It should be noted that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference and that the applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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Data Citation Resources

By h.mooney

November 27, 2012

The Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) maintains a page of Data Citation Resources with lists of relevant workshops, blogs, papers, presentations, websites, and organizations. All IASSIST members are welcome to join SIGDC and can submit ideas for resources to add to the list via our Google Group email.

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IASSIST 2013 Fellows update

Some reflections on research data confidentiality, privacy, and curation by Limor Peer

In search of: Best practice for code repositories?

North American DDI Conference April 2013

40 years of IASSIST Conferences: Toronto to host IASSIST 2014

(U.S.) C2ER offering Basic Analyst training in March in DC

The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto

An evaluation of the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

IASSIST Fellows Application Form 2013

Data Citation Resources

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