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Ready, Set, Go! IASSIST08 is in two worlds!

By San

May 29, 2008

So I had the best intentions to blog the conference but alas I was distracted - creating my SecondLife avatar to be able to participate virtually as well as in reality was far more interesting than I want to admit! My teenagers were appalled when they found out I was on Facebook - what will they say when I tell them about SusieQue! As a technology-oriented association hosting a technology-themed conference, it is maybe not surprising that we should experiment a bit.

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Official Release of the Data Documentation Initiative 3.0

By robin

May 26, 2008

May 21, 2008 – The Alliance for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is pleased to announce the official release of Version 3.0 of the DDI XML specification for documenting social science data. This long awaited version of the DDI represents a major advance by fully incorporating XML Schemas and moving to a data life cycle approach. We thank all the members of the DDI working groups as well as DDI users who have volunteered their time and efforts over the past years to make this specification a reality.

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IASSIST 2008 Accommodations and Registration Reminder

By robin

April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day to everyone!! Hope your day is filled with loads of celebratory reducing, renewing, and recycling. Registration for this year’s IASSIST Conference (May 27-30): “Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation” is proceeding at a rumbling pace, and the five conference hotels have been filling with eager California-bound IASSISTers. However, if you still have not made your arrangements for this year’s conference, please consider doing so. Early registration ends soon (May 2), and of more immediate concern, the conference hotels will begin dropping our room blocks (and guaranteed conference rates) beginning this Friday, April 25.

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Opportunity to suggest enhancements to American FactFinder

By robin

March 11, 2008

[copied from a post to the IASSIST membership list by Terrence Bennett.] I’m sure that this announcement will show up on a lot of lists, but in case you haven’t yet seen it elsewhere, here it is. The Census Bureau is enhancing “American FactFinder,” the Internet gateway for downloading data from the Census, the American Community Survey, and other selected Census Bureau resources. If you would like to suggest enhancements to AFF (or just to learn about the enhancements that are already planned), you can do so at: https://questionweb.

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UNdata, UN Common Database and UN COMTRADE

By robin

February 28, 2008

I took a long look at UNData the other day and came away thinking “pretty; looks functional; how does it relate to other UN products, esp. the ones we’re paying for”. I sent those questions to the feedback address and Mr. Zoltan Nagy responded with the following helpful information. Thought I’d share in case others had the same questions… I took a long look at UNData the other day and came away thinking “pretty; looks functional; how does it relate to other UN products, esp.

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Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

By robin

February 22, 2008

Luis Martinez-Uribe, Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator, is based at the Oxford e-Research Centre and will be conducting a scoping study to capture researcher’s needs for repository services to manage, curate, preserve and disseminate research data generated in Oxford. A new blog (http://oxdrrc.blogspot.com/) has been set-up to record the progress of the project while disseminating outputs and information about relevant activities. If you are interested in following the progress of this project you can subscribe to the RSS feed (http://oxdrrc.

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Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

By robin

February 22, 2008

The Open Data Foundation is pleased to announce that an ODaF Europe 2008 meeting will take place at the UK Data Archive on April 14-15. This regional event is open to all members as well as individuals and agencies interested to learn more about ODaF or to share ideas. For further information and registration, see http://www.opendatafoundation.org/events/odaf_europe_2008.php Looking into the future, we currently anticipate holding a US regional meeting on Oct 2-3 at the Sun Microsystems headquarters in Manhattan, NY and our Annual Meeting in Washington DC in December.

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DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

By robin

February 1, 2008

Announcing new deliverables from the DISC-UK DataShare project: DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools, by Stuart Macdonald. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez. Both briefing papers can be retrieved from http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html . There is also a new “Collective Intelligence” page with a tag cloud to links from our social bookmarks of reports, websites, and blogs related to the project themes. http://www.disc-uk.org/collective.html A newsfeed of deliverables and new bookmarks is available from the project blog at http://jisc-datashare.

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More on polling cellphone users

By jajacobs

February 1, 2008

Cellphone Numbers Just Don’t Add Much To Political Polling, By Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2008.

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Should Americans Be Able to Complete the Census Online?

By jajacobs

January 31, 2008

Using examples from Canada, Norway, and Australia, this report recommends that the U.S Census Bureau provide an online data collection option for all major household surveys that allow a paper response including the Census and promote the Internet survey response option as a secure, low-cost, and time-saving option. e-Census Unplugged: Why Americans Should Be Able to Complete the Census Online by The Information Technology And Innovation Foundation, January 29, 2008. Given the increasingly digital world that we live in, most Americans will be surprised to learn that they will be unable to complete the 2010 Census online.

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Ready, Set, Go! IASSIST08 is in two worlds!

Official Release of the Data Documentation Initiative 3.0

IASSIST 2008 Accommodations and Registration Reminder

Opportunity to suggest enhancements to American FactFinder

UNdata, UN Common Database and UN COMTRADE

Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

More on polling cellphone users

Should Americans Be Able to Complete the Census Online?

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