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Reminder - Submit your paper and panel proposals to IASSIST 2012

By jrcarlso

December 6, 2011

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit an individual paper or a panel session to IASSIST 2012 is Friday December 9th. The Submission Form can be found at: http://www.iassist2012.org/index.php/CPMS/submissions2012.html Call for Papers Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information The theme of this year’s conference is Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information. This theme reflects the growing desire of research communities, government agencies and other organizations to build connections and benefit from the better use of data through practicing good management, dissemination and preservation techniques.

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Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services is open for business!

By plackie@carleton.edu

December 5, 2011

Three cheers for Jen Green!!! When not keeping IASSIST finances in check as the IASSIST Treasurer, Jennifer Green, director of the new Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services, at the University of Michigan has been busy getting the library in shape for the recent opening day! Check out the announcement of the grand opening festivities in the Record Update (a publication of the Office of the Vice President for Communications at the University of Michigan) and don’t miss the brand new website of the Setphen S.

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Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center

By Amy West

November 23, 2011

The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center gathers freely available web-based resources about the preservation of geospatial information. A variety of selected resources are being added, including reports, presentations, standards, and information about tools for preparing geospatial assets for long-term access and use. The resources are indexed to enable searching of titles and are categorized to facilitate discovery by choosing among topics, resource types, or both. The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is a project of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which is working with a national network of partners on a strategy for preserving digital information for use in the future.

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IASSIST 2012 - Conference website

By jrcarlso

November 15, 2011

The IASSIST 2012 conference website is now live and ready to receive submissions: http://www.iassist2012.org/index.html Call for Papers Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information The theme of this year’s conference is Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information. This theme reflects the growing desire of research communities, government agencies and other organizations to build connections and benefit from the better use of data through practicing good management, dissemination and preservation techniques.

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Open Access to Federally Funded Research

By SWright

November 4, 2011

Got something to say about “ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research”? The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released two public consultations today, one on OA for data and one on OA for publications arising from publicly-funded research. Responses are due in early January. Please spread the word. Submit your own comments and/or work with colleagues to submit comments on behalf of your institution.

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IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

By l.martinez-uribe

November 3, 2011

The Latin Engagement Action Group have come up with a number of outreach activities aimed at supporting data professionals from Spanish and Portuguese speaking educational institutions, namely: 1. Research Data Management Webinars (complete with IASSIST contribution) for Spanish/Portuguese data specialists (http://www.recolecta.net/buscador/webminars.jsp) Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martínez-Uribe in collaboration with Alicia López Medina (UNED, Spain), the Spanish Agency of Science and Technology (FECYT) and the network of Spanish repositories RECOLECTA have organised a programme of webinars in 3 strands starting in October to discuss RDM issues:

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UK Data Archive's Managing and Sharing Data Training Resources

By Amy West

November 1, 2011

Our Managing and Sharing Data: Training Resources present a suite of flexible training materials for people who are charged with training researchers and research support staff in how to look after research data. The Training Resources are modularised following the UK Data Archive’s seven key areas of managing and sharing data: sharing data - why and how data management planning for researchers and research centres documenting data formatting data storing data, including data security, data transfer, encryption, and file sharing ethics and consent data copyright Each section contains:

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86 helpful tools for the data professional PLUS 45 bonus tools

By jkitlas

October 29, 2011

I have been working on this (mostly) annotated collection of tools and articles that I believe would be of help to both the data dabbler and professional. If you are a data scientist, data analyst or data dummy, chances are there is something in here for you. I included a list of tools, such as programming languages and web-based utilities, [data mining]{.zem_slink} resources, some prominent organizations in the field, repositories where you can play with data, events you may want to attend and important articles you should take a look at.

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Research Data Management Training online course

By robin

October 26, 2011

The Research Data Management Training, or MANTRA project has produced an open, online training course for PhD and early career researchers to learn best practices in data management. In addition to the interactive, online module which covers data management topics such as Organising Your Data, there are downloadable software modules covering data handling skills in SPSS, R, NVivo and ArcGIS. The resource was created by EDINA and Data Library, University of Edinburgh, and was funded by the JISC Managing Research Data programme.

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Workshop: Building a Culture of Research Data Citation

By mwitt

October 20, 2011

Building a Culture of Research Data Citation Workshop at eResearch Australasia 2011 Thursday 10 November 2011: 9:00-12:30 http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/workshops/#8 The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is currently developing a service called “Cite My Data” [1], which uses the international DataCite infrastructure [2] to support the citation of Australian research sector datasets. The DataCite infrastructure is built on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system [3]–widely used for citation and tracking of scholarly publications.

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Reminder - Submit your paper and panel proposals to IASSIST 2012

Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services is open for business!

Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center

IASSIST 2012 - Conference website

Open Access to Federally Funded Research

IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

UK Data Archive's Managing and Sharing Data Training Resources

86 helpful tools for the data professional PLUS 45 bonus tools

Research Data Management Training online course

Workshop: Building a Culture of Research Data Citation

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