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Version 4, Research Data Curation Bibliography & the IQ

By robin

September 2, 2014

Another reason to write for the IQ: you might get yourself into Charles Bailey’s prestigious bibliography, at http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm I’m pleased to see no less than 7 IQ articles in the latest version. I didn’t count IASSISTers who published elsewhere but several of those were in the list as well. Research Data Curation Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Houston: Digital Scholarship Version 4: 6/23/2014 Altman, Micah, and Mercè Crosas. “The Evolution of Data Citation: From Principles to Implementation” IASSIST Quarterly 37, no.

Research Data Management Issues Across Environments

By mhayslett

May 29, 2014

Lots of conversations going on these days in different venues where people are asking many of the same questions: how do we teach researchers about data management with limited staff, and what data management services should we offer? How do we find sustainable ways to manage data that leverage the efforts of many different repositories, those in government, institutions and disciplinary ones? How do we coalesce standard practice and reasonable but effective policies at at least the national level and preferably on a global scale?

New 'Special Issue' IQ now available!

By StuartM

May 26, 2014

Editor’s notes Special issue: A pioneer data librarian Welcome to the special volume of the IASSIST Quarterly(IQ (37):1-4, 2013). This special issue started as exchange of ideas between Libbie Stephenson and Margaret Adams to collect papers relating to the work of Sue A. Dodd. Margaret Adams (Peggy) acted as the guest editor and the background and content of this volume is described in her preface to this volume on the following page.

IASSIST Africa Regional Report 2013-2014

By H.L. Woolfrey

May 16, 2014

Freeing African Data Two regional developments have the potential to get African government data into the public domain. Putting their disaggregated data out there can benefit African governance through ensuring transparency and allowing feedback from policy analysis to support better government planning. The World Bank’s Central microdata catalog has been around since 2012 and continues to expand its listing of data sources. This is currently the only comprehensive online source for microdata produced by African official data producers, as a listing of country datasets is not available on most African government websites.

IASSIST Fellows 2014

By l.martinez-uribe

April 10, 2014

The IASSIST Fellows Committee is glad to announce through this post the four recipients of the 2014 IASSIST Fellowship award. We are extremely excited to have such a diverse and interesting group with different backgrounds and experience and encourage IASSISTers to welcome them at our conference in Toronto, Canada. Please find below their names, countries and brief bios: Antonin Benoit, Head Librarian at the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning.

White Paper Urges New Approaches to Assure Access to Scientific Data

By robin

December 23, 2013

Press release posted on behalf of Mark Thompson-Kolar, ICPSR. 12/12/2013: (Ann Arbor, MI)—More than two dozen data repositories serving the social, natural, and physical sciences today released a white paper recommending new approaches to funding sharing and preservation of scientific data. The document emphasizes the need for sustainable funding of domain repositories—data archives with ties to specific scientific communities. “Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: A White Paper,” is an outcome of a meeting convened June 24-25, 2013, in Ann Arbor.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

By LHorton

September 17, 2013

I’m just in the process of updating who we follow from our @iassistdata twitter account (we follow members who follow us - when I get round to updating things, sorry). Given the huge* number of followers we now have, (595, thank you one and all) I thought it would be interesting to see what we looked like according to our twitter bios. No surprises: we define ourselves as data people or organisations, in terms of “research”, “librarian” (and library related terms), “social” “science”, “digital”, “information”, and “universities”.

Congratulations to Dan Tsang and Wendy Watkins!

By CSevert

August 16, 2013

As some of you may know, Dan Tsang and Wendy Watkins have been named the 2013 ICSPR Flanagan Award winners for distinguished service as an ICPSR OR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2013/07/icpsr-announces-2013-warren-e-miller UC-Irvine recognizes Dan here, http://www.lib.uci.edu//features/spotlights/dt-award.html Perhaps a Canadian colleague has a similar link for Wendy. Congratulations to both Dan and Wendy!

The Role of Data Repositories in Reproducible Research

By l_peer

July 25, 2013

Cross posted from ISPS Lux et Data Blog These questions were on my mind as I was preparing to present a poster at the Open Repositories 2013 conference in Charlottetown, PEI earlier this month. The annual conference brings the digital repositories community together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others to address issues pertaining to “the entire lifecycle of information.” The conference theme this year, “Use, Reuse, Reproduce,” could not have been more relevant to the ISPS Data Archive.

OR2013: Open Repositories Confront Research Data

By Chuck

July 19, 2013

Open Repositories 2013 was hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island from July 8-12. A strong research data stream ran throughout this conference, which was attended by over 300 participants from around the globe. To my delight, many IASSISTers were in attendance, including the current IASSIST President and four Past-Presidents! Rarely do such sightings happen outside an IASSIST conference. IASSIST Five Presidents by Limor Peer This was my first Open Repositories conference and after the cool reception that research data received at the SPARC IR meetings in Baltimore a few years ago, I was unsure how data would be treated at this conference.

Version 4, Research Data Curation Bibliography & the IQ

Research Data Management Issues Across Environments

New 'Special Issue' IQ now available!

IASSIST Africa Regional Report 2013-2014

IASSIST Fellows 2014

White Paper Urges New Approaches to Assure Access to Scientific Data

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

Congratulations to Dan Tsang and Wendy Watkins!

The Role of Data Repositories in Reproducible Research

OR2013: Open Repositories Confront Research Data

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