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IASSIST sponsors IFLA 2016 Knowledge Management conference

By SAcadia

October 21, 2016

IASSIST proudly sponsored a full-day conference about knowledge management (KM) on August 12, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA at the University of Cincinnati. The theme of the conference was Sharing Practices and Actions for Making Best Use of Organizational Knowledge in Libraries.The conference took place as part of the International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) annual conference held this year in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The KM conference featured two keynote speakers: Valerie Forrestal, author of the 2015 book Knowledge Management in Libraries, and Jay Liebowitz, whose most recent book Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management was published just this year.

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IASSIST 2017 Call for Proposals Now Open!

By mhayslett

October 17, 2016

We are delighted to announce the call for proposals for the IASSIST 2017 Conference. IASSIST 2017 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Data in the Middle: The common language of research The 43rd annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held in Lawrence, Kansas from May 23-26, 2017. #iassist17 Many issues around data (sources, strategies, and tools) are similar across disciplines. While IASSIST has its roots in social science data, it has also welcomed discussions over the years of other disciplines' issues as they relate to data, data management, and support of users.

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Notes from the second Jisc Research Data Network event

By LHorton 2

September 30, 2016

Jisc held their second Research Data Network event in Cambridge. I went along to take notes. Danny Kingsley gave an overview of why data sharing is important, which was useful as introduction for those new to this, and a refresher of first principles to the more experienced. The day then moved into parallel sessions on aspects of the network’s activity. The Research Data Shared Service is an initiative to help intuitions with RDM infrastructure.

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IQ 40:1 Now Available!

By mhayslett

September 20, 2016

Our World and all the Local Worlds Welcome to the first issue of Volume 40 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 40:1, 2016). We present four papers in this issue. The first paper presents data from our very own world, extracted from papers published in the IQ through four decades. What is published in the IQ is often limited in geographical scope and in this issue the other three papers present investigations and project research carried out at New York University, Purdue University, and the Federal Reserve System.

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Feel the Berg! IASSIST 2016

By LHorton 2

June 7, 2016

The conference began with a reception from the Mayor of Bergen, beautifully performed Norwegian folk song, and dissent over the conference hashtag (it was #iassist16). The next morning data talk began with Gudmund Hernes. His plenary theme is data availability or the latest “revolution” is, as it always has, causing a shift in power. The role of IASSISTers and data archives should be to “keep the record straight”. UK Data Service Director Matthew Woollard’s plenary offered a similar theme of adjustment to a changed data world.

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Sr. Policy Analyst for European data policy issues (Brussels)

By mhayslett

June 6, 2016

Senior Policy Analyst The Center for Data Innovation, a Washington, DC-based non-profit, non-partisan public policy think tank, is recruiting a senior policy analyst to join its team as a full-time consultant to focus on European data policy issues. The position will be based in Brussels.

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IASSIST 2016 Conference Papers Announcement

By ALeahey

May 25, 2016

Hello IASSISTers, Thank you for the outstanding participation in this year’s Conference Paper Competition! We received a lot of quality submissions that will be presented next week at IASSIST 2016 in Bergen, Norway. In advance of the conference, and on behalf of the Program Committee, I’d like to announce the winners and runner-ups for the 2016 Conference Paper Award: Congratulations to Sophia Lafferty Hess and Thu-Mai Christian from ODUM for their paper titled “More Data, Less Process: The Applicability of MPLP to Research Data”!

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IASSIST 2016 Program At-A-Glance, Part 2: Data infrastructure, data processing and research data management

By ESmith

May 6, 2016

Here’s another list of highlights from IASSIST2016 which is focusing on the data revolution. For previous highlights, see here. Infrastructure For those of you with an interest in technical infrastructure, the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur will showcase an early protype MMRepo (1 June, 3F), whose function is to store qualitative and quantitative data into one big data repository. The UK Data Service will present the following panel “The CESSDA Technical Framework - what is it and why is it needed?

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New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New?

By bordelon

May 5, 2016

New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New? We are excited to have new members in IASSIST. IASSIST is a home for data services professionals across many disciplines: librarians, data archivists, open data proponents, data support staff, etc. For some, it is an organization where you don’t have to explain what you do because our members already understand. We get metadata, data support, data access issues, database challenges, the challenge of replication and so much more!

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Interested in the “data revolution” and what it means for research? Here’s why you should attend IASSIST2016

By ESmith

May 3, 2016

Part 1: Data sharing, new data sources and data protection IASSIST is an international organisation of information technology and data services professionals which aims to provide support to research and teaching in the social sciences. It has over 300 members ranging from data archive staff and librarians to statistical agencies, government departments and non-profit organisations. The theme of this year’s conference is “Embracing the ‘data revolution’: opportunities and challenges for research” and it is the 42nd of its kind, taking place every year.

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IASSIST sponsors IFLA 2016 Knowledge Management conference

IASSIST 2017 Call for Proposals Now Open!

Notes from the second Jisc Research Data Network event

IQ 40:1 Now Available!

Feel the Berg! IASSIST 2016

Sr. Policy Analyst for European data policy issues (Brussels)

IASSIST 2016 Conference Papers Announcement

IASSIST 2016 Program At-A-Glance, Part 2: Data infrastructure, data processing and research data management

New to IASSIST or Willing to Mentor Someone New?

Interested in the “data revolution” and what it means for research? Here’s why you should attend IASSIST2016

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