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Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol

By h.dekker

August 16, 2012

Great work by Richard Ball, an Economics professor at Haverford College and Norm Medeiros, a Haverford librarian. I’m already planning to incorporate their protocol into my formal and informal data literacy instruction. I highly recommend a visit to their website: Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol They’ve also published a paper on their work. Here’s the abstract: This article describes a protocol the authors developed for teaching undergraduates to document their statistical analyses for empirical research projects so that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable.

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Knight Foundation Data Challenge (FYI)

By plackie@carleton.edu

July 11, 2012

The Knight Foundation announced a data-related grant opportunity in a kind of “tweet your grant proposal” format. The call has closed but over 800 of the applications are viewable through Tumblr. In a simple search of the applications with the words “data professionals” returned 148 results. Of these, some of the more related are: My submission: A passion for data, and the professionals who keep it alive{.gs-title} A proposal for a dating service for data professionals :} DATABLE | Data based dating{.

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Data Discussion Group at ALA Annual

By h.mooney

June 29, 2012

A number of U.S. IASSISTers were at the recent American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. This years program (finally!) featured a number of data related topics, including the third meeting of the Association of College & Research Libraries Numeric and Geospatial Data Interest Group (DIG). Our discussion covered topics such as content management systems, data hosting, collection development for small data, and changing professional roles. A full report of the meeting is available at http://connect.

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2012 Report from the Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research

By e.stephenson

June 19, 2012

For those of you exploring issues of human subjects, privacy and confidentiality, this group may be of interest. In the coming year we hope to put together some resources and guides for those working with confidential data or human subjects related work. Please contact libbie@ucla.edu if you are “interested”! ** ** Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research This group will focus on issues related to conducting research using human subjects in the social sciences.

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The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys

By robin

June 15, 2012

ESDS Government has produced a new guide, The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys. The aim of this guide is to provide an introduction to analysing large scale government surveys with the help of the R statistical software package. The guide focuses on providing step-by-step examples of common operations most users carry out in the course of their research: how to open data sets, do basic data manipulation operations, produce simple descriptive statistics or weighted contingency tables.

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Data Citation Brochure published by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council

By LCorti

June 11, 2012

Just to let you all know that here at the Economic and Social Data Service in the UK we have been working with the ESRC on a brochure to encourage data citation amongst our social scientists and journal publishers. In October 2011 we minted over 5000 DOIs for our ESDS Collection with Datacite, using a methodology we developed to deal with version changes to our data. You can view our Webinar that explains how we do this.

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iassist 2012 conference song

By walterg

June 9, 2012

My thanks to Vince Gray, Lisa Neidert, and Melanie Wright for help with the lyrics, Melanie for the great guitar accompaniment, and Melanie, Vince, and Kate McNeill for singing along (and thereby drowning out the sound of what passes for my singing voice :) (Sung, sort of, to the tune of “America the beautiful”) It’s 2012 in Washington, We met for IASSIST; Unfortunately we’re all done, But memories persist -

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IASSIST Publishes a Quick Guide to Data Citation

By mwitt

June 1, 2012

The IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation is very pleased to announce the publication of its Quick Guide to Data Citation! These professionally-printed guides, provided by IASSIST, will be available at the IASSIST 2012 conference; come by the SIGDC poster to pick up your complimentary copies! http://iassistdata.org/file/blog/quick_guide_to_data_citation_high-res_printer-ready.pdf Learn more about printing or downloading more copies at IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) In other SIGDC news, Elizabeth Moss and Hailey Mooney will be taking over as co-chairs from Mary Vardigan and Michael Witt.

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Data Curation Bibliography, 2012

By robin

May 29, 2012

“Digital Scholarship has released the Research Data Curation Bibliography. It includes over 100 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.” “Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included.” View the Data Curation Bibliography. A number of IASSIST members are cited in the bibliography.

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UNC Data Stewardship Report

By mhayslett

April 4, 2012

In the spring of 2011, the UNC-Chapel Provost formed the Task Force on the Stewardship of Digital Research Data and charged its members with exploring the implications of data management for the University and making recommendations for University policy. The Task Force investigated the data management landscape through research in the literature, conversations with faculty and staff, and an in-depth faculty survey designed and administered by the Odum Institute. The resulting report was submitted to administrators in mid-February 2012 with recommendations for university policies and procedures.

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Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol

Knight Foundation Data Challenge (FYI)

Data Discussion Group at ALA Annual

2012 Report from the Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research

The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys

Data Citation Brochure published by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council

iassist 2012 conference song

IASSIST Publishes a Quick Guide to Data Citation

Data Curation Bibliography, 2012

UNC Data Stewardship Report

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