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Registration for the IASSIST 2009 is open

By robin

February 24, 2009

Tervetuloa Tampereelle, Welcome to Tampere! Registration for the 2009 IASSIST conference is now officially open. On the conference web site there is more information on registration, accommodations and excursions. The Early Bird rate is valid until March 24, 2009. Please note that a deposit of one night for accommodation should be paid together with the registration fees. Cancellations (conference attendance, hotels, tours) on or before April 24 will receive a refund minus the administrative fees.

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Data Walkabout

By robin

February 23, 2009

A series of posts on the DataShare blog describing the interest and action in Australian University Libraries around new forms of support for data management, from an IASSIST member’s study tour of New Zealand and Australian institutions in January 2009. Robin Rice Project Manager DISC-UK DataShare project

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New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

By robin

February 4, 2009

The UK Data Archive would like to announce the release of its new suite of web pages providing guidance on data management and sharing. The pages provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets. Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic. These are: · Sharing data - why and how?

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Symposium on Institutional Data Services at Edinburgh

By robin

February 2, 2009

The Edinburgh University Data Library celebrated 25 years of support for staff and students in their discovery, access, use and management of research datasets. On 5 December 2008, following on from the Digital Curation Centre international conference held in Edinburgh that week, friends and colleagues from near and far gathered in the afternoon at the EDINA offices to celebrate the milestone with short speeches and cutting the cake, along with food, drink and toasts.

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The Digging Into Data Challenge

By robin

February 2, 2009

The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada. For more details: http://www.diggingintodata.org/ – Joel Herndon

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Open Access and Reuse of Research Data in Finland

By MariK

October 10, 2008

In 2006, motivated by the OECD Open Access guidelines, the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) carried out an online survey targeting professors of human sciences, social sciences and behavioural sciences in Finnish universities. Professors were asked, for example, whether their department had any guidelines on the preservation of digital research data. A great and alarming majority (90%) said no. The survey also charted what actually happens to research data and what are the barriers to and benefits of open access to research data.

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Data Scientists, Data Managers, Data Librarians, Oh My!

By robin

September 23, 2008

The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists: An Assessment of Current Practice and Future Needs is a report prepared by Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown this summer for JISC in the UK. The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists: An Assessment of Current Practice and Future Needs is a report prepared by Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown this summer for JISC in the UK. Ours is a profession that is not highly visible.

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Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group Established

By robin

August 26, 2008

Research Data Strategy Working Group Established http ://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/rds_group_e.html, press release, August 12, 2008. The research process generates huge amounts of data that are an important part of Canada’s scholarly record and hold enormous potential as an additional discovery and problem-solving tool for researchers. Unfortunately, Canada has no nationally adopted standards or policies governing how this data is collected, catalogued, or preserved. Research Data Strategy Working Group Established http ://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/rds_group_e.html, press release, August 12, 2008.

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new IQ

By robin

August 15, 2008

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 31 issue 1 - 2007) is now available on the web: http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html Welcome to the first issue of the IASSIST Quarterly, vol. 31. We have passed the 34th IASSIST conference, also known as the Stanford IASSIST 2008 conference - best ever. However, the IASSIST Quarterly vol. 31 is known also as the 2007 volume. Yes, we are behind our schedule; but at least we are consistently so.

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IASSIST '08 Followup, Part 2: Restricted Data

By PamB

July 3, 2008

Regardless of the institutional setting in which we work, more and more of us are having to address researcher access to restricted or confidential datasets. This post focuses on sessions at Stanford that covered this important topic–or rather, group of topics because there are so many intersecting responsibilities to actually making such access a reality for our users. Lisa Neider’s poster session focused on the practicalities of “Administering Restricted Data Contracts.

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Registration for the IASSIST 2009 is open

Data Walkabout

New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

Symposium on Institutional Data Services at Edinburgh

The Digging Into Data Challenge

Open Access and Reuse of Research Data in Finland

Data Scientists, Data Managers, Data Librarians, Oh My!

Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group Established

new IQ

IASSIST '08 Followup, Part 2: Restricted Data

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