The Role of Data Repositories in Reproducible Research
July 25, 2013
Cross posted from ISPS Lux et Data Blog These questions were on my mind as I was preparing to present a poster at the Open Repositories 2013 conference in Charlottetown, PEI earlier this month. The annual conference brings the digital repositories community together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others to address issues pertaining to “the entire lifecycle of information.” The conference theme this year, “Use, Reuse, Reproduce,” could not have been more relevant to the ISPS Data Archive.
OR2013: Open Repositories Confront Research Data
July 19, 2013
Open Repositories 2013 was hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island from July 8-12. A strong research data stream ran throughout this conference, which was attended by over 300 participants from around the globe. To my delight, many IASSISTers were in attendance, including the current IASSIST President and four Past-Presidents! Rarely do such sightings happen outside an IASSIST conference. IASSIST Five Presidents by Limor Peer This was my first Open Repositories conference and after the cool reception that research data received at the SPARC IR meetings in Baltimore a few years ago, I was unsure how data would be treated at this conference.
DDI-XSLT -transform you DDI to XHTML, MARC, PDF
July 4, 2013
With DDI-XSLT you can tranform your DDI-lifeccle XML to other formats including: DDI 1.2.2 (nesstar) XHTML MARC-XML Datacite metadata PDF codebooks Demo site for transformations Google code page
Ich bin ein IASSISTer
June 6, 2013
From 28-31 May, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences hosted the 39th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology, aka #iassist2013 IASSIST conferences provide an overview of what’s happening in information technology and data services and allow exchange of ideas between participants working in different backgrounds - from social science and humanities to information and computer science. The aim of this year’s event was to help us move closer to the dream of technical and organizational measures that make research data discoverable and accessible.
IASSIST needs YOU to write a blog post about some aspect of the conference
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.
IASSIST 2013 conference song
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
New Latin American Open Data site!
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.
MRC guidance on data management plans
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.
Registration for the Data Information Literacy Symposium is now open
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.