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IASSIST needs YOU to write a blog post about some aspect of the conference

By robin

June 4, 2013

I could say this is needed because the videos and wifi weren’t working, but in fact I’d be asking anyway. Just think how helpful it is for members who could not be with us (and potential members) to get a snapshot of views about what happened. Serious, silly, short, verbose, objective, or ridiculously opinionated impressions of one session, the social events or overall are very welcome. Turn your personal notes into a gift that keeps on giving.

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IASSIST 2013 conference song

By walterg

June 2, 2013

Many thanks to Kate, Dan, and especially Melanie for this year’s bit of silliness. Thanks once again to Lynda Kellam for the video. (Sung to the tune of “Lili Marlene” If anyone wonders, the connection of the melody with Cologne is that the composer, Norbert Schultze, once studied in Cologne.) It’s 2013 IASSIST, and welcome to Cologne GESIS has endeavored to make us feel at home Data innovation was the theme

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New Latin American Open Data site!

By plackie@carleton.edu

May 27, 2013

Miguel Paz writes: Poderomedia Foundation and PinLatam are launching OpenDataLatinoamerica.org, a regional data repository to free data and use it on Hackathons and other activities by HacksHackers chapters and other organizations. We are doing this because the road to the future of news has been littered with lost datasets. A day or so after every hackathon and meeting where a group has come together to analyze, compare and understand a particular set of data, someone tries to remember where the successful files were stored.

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MRC guidance on data management plans

By veerle

May 27, 2013

The Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance on data management plans provides guidance for research applicants and for reviewers, and a template, on how to develop a data management plan for a grant application submitted to the UK Medical Research Council.

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Registration for the Data Information Literacy Symposium is now open

By jrcarlso

May 22, 2013

Please join us for the Data Information Literacy Symposium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, on September 23rd, and 24th 2013. Program: This symposium will explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians from Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon have investigated this topic through developing and implementing “data information literacy” (DIL) instruction programs for graduate students in a range of science and engineering disciplines.

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New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

By StuartM

May 16, 2013

Editor notes: Data bring maps, archive brings data, and accreditation brings research This issue (volume 36-1, 2012) of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) is the first of the 2012 issues. This editorial is written in March 2013 when many IASSIST people have received acceptance for their papers at the upcoming conference IASSIST 2013 in Cologne. I am certain there will be many interesting presentations at the conference. However, presenters can reach a greater audience by having their paper published in forthcoming issues of the IQ.

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IASSIST Fellows 2013

By l.martinez-uribe

May 6, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Committee is glad to announce through this post the six recipients of the 2013 IASSIST Fellowship award. We are extremely excited to have such a diverse and interesting group with different backgrounds and experience and encourage IASSISTers to welcome them at our conference in Cologne, Germany. Please find below their names, countries and brief bios: **Chifundo Kanjala (Tanzania) ** Chifundo currently works as a Data Manager and data documentalist for an HIV research group called ALPHA network based at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s department of Population Health, Chifundo spends most of his time in Mwanza, Tanzania but do travel from time around Southern and Eastern Africa to work with colleagues in the ALPHA network.

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IASSIST 2013 - Early bird registration rates until April 30!

By vejvodab

April 18, 2013

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is proud to host the IASSIST 2013 Conference at Maternushaus in Cologne, Germany from May 28-31. The IASSIST 2013 theme is Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability. In line with the theme, the IASSIST Program is streamed into three tracks this year: Research Data Management, Data Developers and Tools and Data Public Services. Presentations cover topics such as standards and processes in data management, metadata extensions and tools, data citation practices, sensitive data and much more!

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Newly elected IASSIST officials

By robin

April 18, 2013

Dear IASSISTers, With a 59% voter turnout, the following people have been elected as our IASSIST Officers, whose terms begin at the end of the Annual Business Meeting of the Association, at lunchtime on Thursday 30 May 2013: President: Bill Block Vice President: Tuomas J. Alaterä Treasurer: Thomas Lindsay Secretary: Kristin Partlo African Regional Secretary: Lynn Woolfrey Asia-Pacific Regional Secretary: Sam Spencer Canadian Regional Secretary: Michelle Edwards European Regional Secretary: Tanvi Desai

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IASSISTers and librarians are doin' it for themselves

By robin

April 2, 2013

Hey IASSISTers (gents, pardon for the video pun - couldnt’ resist), Are librarians at your institutions struggling to get up to speed with research data management (RDM)? If they’re not, they probably should be. Library organisations are publishing reports and issuing recommendations left and right, such as the LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2012 report, “Ten Recommendations for Libraries to Get Started with Research Data Management” (PDF). Just last week Nature published an article highlighting what the Great and the Good are doing in this area: Publishing Frontiers: The Library Reboot.

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IASSIST needs YOU to write a blog post about some aspect of the conference

IASSIST 2013 conference song

New Latin American Open Data site!

MRC guidance on data management plans

Registration for the Data Information Literacy Symposium is now open

New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

IASSIST Fellows 2013

IASSIST 2013 - Early bird registration rates until April 30!

Newly elected IASSIST officials

IASSISTers and librarians are doin' it for themselves

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