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Metadata Musings from IASSIST 2006

By administrator

May 25, 2006

I will start with a disclaimer that I am not a metadata expert nor do I play one on TV but I have been spending a lot of time recently contemplating metadata issues. Granted they have been issues that deal with metadata in a time series world but it gave me an interesting frame of reference for attending several sessions on metadata-related issues. Here’s my thoughts: After attending three and a half session exploring metadata issues, the one clear idea that has emerged is that there don’t seem to be any clear ideas.

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Research Spin-offs from Commercial Data Mining

By administrator

May 17, 2006

Edmonton Journal technology columnist Steve Makris wrote about recent developments in data mining that could have potential implications for providing access to confidential social survey data (see “Hot Data,” Edmonton Journal, Business, G1, May 17, 2006.) Makris mentioned some major companies raiding each other’s data mining experts, such as Google hiring Kai-Fu Lee away from Microsoft only to see Microsoft swoop up Rakesh Agrawal from IBM. Can these companies capitalize on the massive data accumulated by private companies and governments through data mining technology?

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Open Data Surfaces at the ALA Annual Meeting

By Chuck

May 16, 2006

On May 11, 2006, the following announcement was made about an upcoming forum at the American Library Association annual meeting that will address issues related to Open Data. During the past several years, Open Data has become a field of urgent interest to researchers, scholars, and librarians. With the amount of scientific data doubling every year, issues surrounding the access, use, and curation of data sets are increasing in importance. The data-rich, researcher-driven environment that is evolving poses new challenges and provides new opportunities in the sharing, review, and publication of research results.

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New Issue of the IQ is available on the web.

By San

May 3, 2006

A new issue of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 29 issue 2)is now available on the web: We are pleased to present this second issue of the IASSIST Quarterly vol. 29. The issue contains three articles from the IASSIST conference in Edinburgh in May 2005. This is a second posting of this information as the original posting got lost in cyberspace. At the session called “Using National Data” the paper on “Economic data as snapshots in time” was presented by Katrina Stierholz from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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New report on Eurostat and statistical integration

By robin

February 15, 2006

Title: Administering information: Eurostat and statistical integration The chapter examines developments and changes in the organization of numerical information in the EU, in particular the role of Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission. How and to what extent can we observe the emergence of a pan-European informational system? Full Text (PDF, 31 pages, 157.2 KB) http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/working-papers2005/papers/wp05_27.pdfTitle: Administering information: Eurostat and statistical integration Author: Ulf Sverdrup October 2005 European Research Papers Archive

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New Version of US NSF Cyberinfrastructure Plan

By Ann

February 4, 2006

NSF’S CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE VISION FOR 21ST CENTURY DISCOVERY See: http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf Some sections of interest: p. 8: Support the development of the computing professionals, interdisciplinary teams and new organizational structures, such as virtual communities, needed to achieve the scientific breakthroughs made possible by advanced CI, paying particular attention to the opportunities to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups. NSF will continue to invest in understanding how participants in its research and education communities, as well as the scientific workforce, can use CI.

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ESS wins prestigious Descartes prize

By robin

January 17, 2006

The European Social Survey (ESS) has won the prestigious Descartes prize, awarded by the European Commission for “excellence in scientific research”. This is the first year that a social science project has won this prize. (from ESDS News)IASSIST-ers who attended the May 2005 conference in Edinburgh will remember the keynote speech by Roger Jowell, from the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University, on ‘The Need for Rigour and Accessibility in Comparative Research.

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New IASSIST Quarterly and 2006 Paper contest details

By San

December 15, 2005

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 28 issue 4) is now available on the web: The issue has articles about the following topics: Wikipedia. Oliver Watteler from the data archive (Zentralarchiv) in Cologne in Germany – part of GESIS – presents us for the fundamentals of Wiki: The Wikipedia is a Web-based encyclopedia that has quickly grown in substance and in use. It is a free and copyleft product to be used, read, updated and improved by anyone.

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Data Literacy in the Spotlight

By San

November 4, 2005

I am very pleased to announce that the special double issue of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ issues Vol. 28-2 and 28-3 on “data literacy” is now available on the web. Thanks to the special guest editors and the authors there are contributions in the form of eight articles on the subject of “data literacy”. This is a subject that has the focus of many IASSIST efforts among them themes and sessions at conferences.

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Assessment of UKDA and The National Archive (UK) Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards

By Ann

September 28, 2005

Interesting report applying the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) to the UK Data Archive; a very useful convergence of preservation strategies and articulation of what the model means for data and disciplinary focused digital repositories/archives.Email from the Digital Preservation Department at the UK National Archives: In conjunction with the UK Data Archive, The National Archives have released a report comparing their preservation practices to the leading internationally recognised standard for digital archives.

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Metadata Musings from IASSIST 2006

Research Spin-offs from Commercial Data Mining

Open Data Surfaces at the ALA Annual Meeting

New Issue of the IQ is available on the web.

New report on Eurostat and statistical integration

New Version of US NSF Cyberinfrastructure Plan

ESS wins prestigious Descartes prize

New IASSIST Quarterly and 2006 Paper contest details

Data Literacy in the Spotlight

Assessment of UKDA and The National Archive (UK) Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards

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