10 significant visualisation developments
July 7, 2011
Interesting collection of visualization developments: 10 significant visualisation developments: January to June 2011 Visualising Data (July 7th, 2011)
Sensitive data and the US Patriot Act
June 30, 2011
The series of articles below might be of interest to some of you planning or working with sensitive data in the cloud. Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data See also ZDNet’s Patriot Act series: ZDNet’s USA PATRIOT Act series Summary Part 1: USA PATRIOT Act and the controversy of Canada Part 2: Safe Harbor: Why EU data needs ‘protecting’ from U.S. law Part 3: How the USA PATRIOT Act can be used to access EU data Part 4: USA PATRIOT Act: The myth of a secure European cloud
Videos from the IASSIST 2011 Plenaries
June 24, 2011
Hello - for those who were not able to attend IASSIST 2011 and for those asking to have access to video presentations, the two videos of the Plenaries from IASSIST 2011 are now available for viewing: Research Data Infrastructure: Are the Social Sciences on Main Street or a Side Road? Chuck Humphrey - Data Library Coordinator, University of Alberta Chuck Humphrey is passionate about data and has been examining research data infrastructure with a global perspective.
IASSIST SIGDC Meeting Held in Vancouver
June 22, 2011
The IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) met in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 1, with 15 people in attendance. The group discussed ways in which IASSIST members could influence data citation standards and behavior. Suggestions were made to: Inventory the resources that the SIG maintains and knows about Create a set of simple slides to share with faculty and students; these might include guidelines on citation format with examples but would not endorse a certain format Create posters on data citation to hang in prominent places Contact bibliographic software companies to make sure they include data as a specific resource type Contact style guides – APA, Chicago, MLA – to ensure that they are providing appropriate citations for data and including DOIs Create a set of Web pages on this topic on the IASSIST site Contact Google Scholar with a list of issues related to data Joachim Wackerow presented information on ways to make DOIs more machine-actionable.
Updated Guide on Data Citation Available
June 22, 2011
The Australian National Data Service has updated its Guide on Data Citation.
Data Citation Principles Workshop Held
June 22, 2011
A workshop on Data Citation Principles sponsored by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS) was held May 16-17 in Cambridge, MA. Presentations and other materials from the workshop are now available.
Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center
June 21, 2011
A new Web site, the Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center, aims to help those responsible for producing and managing geospatial data learn about the latest approaches and tools available to facilitate long-term geospatial data preservation and access. The Web site provides descriptions and links for a variety of relevant resources, including education and training modules, useful tools and software, information on policies and standards for preserving geospatial data, and examples of successful preservation and associated benefits.
IASSIST 2011 conference song lyrics
June 6, 2011
Sung to the tune of Bryan Adam’s “Summer of ‘69” : We all came to Vancouver in spring 2-0-1-1 IASSISTers gather together this is gonna be fun! Day long Admin meeting Ann skyped in for Constitutional change and we kept it all to the schedule Now that was really strange oh, and when the Canucks won, the cheering seemed to last forever and that really set the scene for the best IASSIST ever
IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 34-2 now on the web
May 17, 2011
The new issue of the IASSIST Quarterly is now available on the web. This is the volume 34 (number 2, 2010). http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/34/2 The layout has changed. We hope you’ll enjoy the new style presented. It seems to be a more modern format and more suited for the PDF presentation on the web. Walter Piovesan – our publication officer – had a biking accident. To show that nothing is so bad that it is not good for something Walter used his recovery time to redesign the IQ.
Irish Qualitative Data Archive: Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data
May 11, 2011
The Irish Qualitative Data Archive: Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data (PDF) handbook is intended to introduce the researcher and data curator to the issues they need to consider when developing an archiving strategy appropriate to their qualitative data set. The guidelines apply principally to textual data that have been generated in qualitative research projects.