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It was the best IASSIST ever!

By San

May 22, 2007

Until next year of course! This year’s conference is done and Anastassia, Susan, and the wonderful Local arrangement folks at McGill are probably breathing a sigh of relief! Lots of informations was presented and some of it was absorbed! More will likely be reviewed over coming weeks preceded by the usual “Now I know I saw a presentation about this at IASSIST….” If you were one of those fine presenters, please don’t forget to submit a paper to the IQ (instructions for doing so are on the IASSIST website).

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A really secure data center

By walterg

May 22, 2007

The May 21 issue of Boing Boing describes the InfoBunker, a “Cold War era government command bunker converted into a data center”. I realize that they’re not referring to the same kind of data center we mean, but it was kind of fun to read about a data center that has “a self-sufficient power systems (six days’ worth of diesel fuel; 17,000 gallons of water (for drinking and fire suppression); military-grade NBC air filtration).

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Session D3: views from near a plug....

By San

May 18, 2007

Your trusty blogger attended Data Access Questions: Open and Shut (session D3). She assumed that, as an august member of the blogging press, she would be afforded a primo seat. But no, she again found herself sitting on the floor in the corner, next to another fake potted palm! Thank heavens the session was moved to a neighboring room—larger and with a microphone. Obviously, a popular session on the challenges of working with data agreements from the perspectives of acquisition and user support.

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IASSIST 2.0: Blog the conference! (Montreal, May 2007)

By robin

May 17, 2007

This is a starter blog entry for people to share their thoughts and reflections about the conference as we go along and afterwards. Just Add a comment to this post and blog away! If you would like to be a regular blog contributor, talk to San Cannon, the IASSIST Communique editor.

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Technology befuddles session C3

By San

May 16, 2007

So now that I remember my blog password, I have lots to say. I want to extend my congratulations and kudos to my fellow session participants in C3 (New Discovery Tools: Thinking Outside the Catalogue) where we managed to kill 3 laptops and still do 4 outstanding presentations. The room was too hot and too crowded but the attendees were patient, enthusiastic and even provided some tech support!! Paul Bern was the lucky presenter - the laptop didn’t reallly crash until he was done explaining how to make Google work better for us and help us to help other folks find data.

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Session A1: views from the floor

By San

May 16, 2007

An overriding theme of the A1 session, Self-Archiving or Self Storage, was empowering data producers to participate in creating and providing metadata for their materials. Another way to describe it: involving researchers in these processes by meeting them where they’re at with the most flexible tools possible. I must also mention that this was an extremely popular session, drawing a standing-room-only crowd. So this roving blogger found a comfy seat in the back of the room on the floor, next to the fake potted palm.

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A Modest Set of Proposals

By San

May 16, 2007

The conference is on and I’m hoping to see lots of blog entries from the interesting sessions today. I’m expecting some details on session A1 from another contributor but…. I’ve been asked by Kristin Partlo to pass along the proposals she and Rachael Barlow outlined at the end of their presentation for further comment. So here they are! This part of the session was on social bookmarking using sites such as del.

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RIN Consultation paper on stewardship of research data

By robin

May 2, 2007

The RIN (Research Information Network) has recently published a draft consultation paper - Stewardship of digital research data: a framework of principles and guidelines (April 2007) and are seeking feedback from practitioners. The draft discusses the shared framework of principles and guidelines required for key stakeholders (researchers, research institutions, funding bodies, libraries, data managers, learned societies and publishers) in order to maximise the potential benefits of digital research data and to help ensure that ‘ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research should be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable.

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OECD will make its 2007 OECD Factbook available on Swivel

By jajacobs

April 17, 2007

OECD and Swivel Invite Curious People to Explore, Discuss and Debate the OECD Factbook OECD profile page at Swivel Let the Feast Begin (Swivel Blog) -jajacobs

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Google has acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software

By jajacobs

April 1, 2007

A world in motion, The official Google Blog, March 16, 2007, by Marissa Mayer In this regard, we are excited to announce that we have acquired Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software, and we welcome the Trendalyzer team to Google. Trendalyzer generates moving graphics and other novel effects in the display of facts, figures, and statistics in presentations. In its nimble hands, Trendalyzer views development data—such as regional income distribution or trends in global health—as literally a world of opportunity.

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It was the best IASSIST ever!

A really secure data center

Session D3: views from near a plug....

IASSIST 2.0: Blog the conference! (Montreal, May 2007)

Technology befuddles session C3

Session A1: views from the floor

A Modest Set of Proposals

RIN Consultation paper on stewardship of research data

OECD will make its 2007 OECD Factbook available on Swivel

Google has acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software

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