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E-Science and Data Support

By bo@uoguelph.ca

August 25, 2010

[[[E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of Association of Research Libraries Member Institutions http://bit.ly/cKmaO6]{.entry-content}]{.status-content}]{.status-body} . This was tweeted to our site last week, but in case you weren’t following the tweets, this is worth a read. There are quotes from IASSIST folks, and there is some interesting information in it, in terms of what people are doing. This may help shape what you are doing. It has been blogged and tweeted elsewhere and is now posted on the Educause site.

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World Statistics Day

By k.mcneill

August 18, 2010

“On 20 October, 2010 [20.10.2010] the World will celebrate the first World Statistics Day, to raise awareness of the many achievements of official statistics premised on the core values of service, professionalism, and integrity.” For more information and resources, see: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/

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United States National Center for Education Statistics DataLab

By Amy West

August 2, 2010

The National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Datalab, introduced earlier this year by the United States Department of Education, provides a user-friendly entry to NCES data. The home page, linked above, links to QuickStats for users of summary data needing quick tables or charts (requires click-through agreement to terms of use) PowerStats for users of microdata needing to run linear and logistic regressions (requires free user registration) Library for users looking for prepared summary tables Links to the Restricted-Use Data Procedures Manual NCES also promises to soon make available tables already created via the QuickStats and PowerStats tools which would be potentially the most powerful aspect of the Datalab.

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OECD Factbook 2010 for iPhone

By Amy West

August 2, 2010

The OECD has created an iPhone app for the OECD Factbook. From the site “The OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially designed for your iPhone. Now, wherever you are, you have easy access to a comprehensive statistical picture of the world’s major economies from the most reliable source: OECD. The OECD Factbook is organised around 12 themes such as population and migration, macroeconomic trends, and globalization.

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CAPDU - Canadian Census

By bo@uoguelph.ca

July 16, 2010

More info on what the response has been in Canada is available here: http://capdu.wordpress.com/ Very interesting to watch this unfold if you are interested in data or interested in how these community responses develop.

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IASSIST Colleague Named Fulbright Scholar

By jend

July 2, 2010

Michael Witt, assistant professor of library science and interdisciplinary research librarian at Purdue University, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship. He will spend January to May of 2011 at the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt. Michael’s research focuses, in part,on the roles of librarians in data curation and managing electronic resource collections. See this Purdue Libraries June 16 press release for all the details.

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Canadian census - no more long form

By bo@uoguelph.ca

June 30, 2010

It appears that the Federal Government has decided to no longer have the mandatory long form in the upcoming census (2011). This is the list of detailed questions filled out by about 20% of households. It will be replaced with another voluntary survey. This has many potential implications, especially for those using the census ’longitudinally’. It may have some positive spinoffs, since the replacement has a potentially larger sample size. The disturbing part is that we are not aware of any consultation with the research community.

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IHSN: Principles and Good Practice for Preserving Data

By pheus

June 23, 2010

The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) just released a new publication on “Principles and Good Practice for Preserving Data”. This document produced by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social research (ICPSR) provides basic guidance for managers in statistical agencies who are responsible for preserving data using the principles and good practice defined by the digital preservation community. The guidance defines the rationale for preserving data and the principles and standards of good practice as applied to data preservation; documents the development of a digital preservation policy; and uses digital archive audit principles to suggest good practice for data.

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Islandora

By bo@uoguelph.ca

June 16, 2010

I am just attending CANHEIT and saw a presentation on http://islandora.ca . I thought this was a really neat project and I really like their appliance approach to distributing this. In a way I thought what they are building touched on some of the vision presented by Pascal at http://ciser.cornell.edu/IASSIST/program/d3.shtm .

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IASSIST new look website

By robin

May 26, 2010

Welcome to the new (May, 2010) IASSIST website, based on Drupal open source technology and hosted by LIS-host. The new logo and website artwork was commissioned by the Publications Chair, Walter Piovesan, and done by Josh Laidlaw, from British Columbia. Harrison Dekker, from University of California-Berkeley, is our ‘drupal guru’ who has done the lion’s share of the work, porting over the old content and setting up the new format.

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E-Science and Data Support

World Statistics Day

United States National Center for Education Statistics DataLab

OECD Factbook 2010 for iPhone

CAPDU - Canadian Census

IASSIST Colleague Named Fulbright Scholar

Canadian census - no more long form

IHSN: Principles and Good Practice for Preserving Data

Islandora

IASSIST new look website

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