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IASSIST 2012 Fellows Program

By l.martinez-uribe

January 31, 2012

The IASSIST Fellows Program is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2012 conference in Washington [http://www.iassist2012.org/], from data professionals from countries with emerging economies who are developing and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement the IASSIST Fellow award.

Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) meeting notes

By San

December 8, 2011

I was lucky enough to be able to sit in on the most recent COPAFS meeting in place of our regular liaison Judith Rowe. While the topics were very different than the issues I usually deal with at work, I found the presentations really interesting. Here’s an abridged version of my notes. News: Ed Spar will be stepping down as Executive Director at the end of 2012. The board will be launching a search and will be engaging a search firm.

Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services is open for business!

By plackie@carleton.edu

December 5, 2011

Three cheers for Jen Green!!! When not keeping IASSIST finances in check as the IASSIST Treasurer, Jennifer Green, director of the new Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services, at the University of Michigan has been busy getting the library in shape for the recent opening day! Check out the announcement of the grand opening festivities in the Record Update (a publication of the Office of the Vice President for Communications at the University of Michigan) and don’t miss the brand new website of the Setphen S.

IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

By l.martinez-uribe

November 3, 2011

The Latin Engagement Action Group have come up with a number of outreach activities aimed at supporting data professionals from Spanish and Portuguese speaking educational institutions, namely: 1. Research Data Management Webinars (complete with IASSIST contribution) for Spanish/Portuguese data specialists (http://www.recolecta.net/buscador/webminars.jsp) Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martínez-Uribe in collaboration with Alicia López Medina (UNED, Spain), the Spanish Agency of Science and Technology (FECYT) and the network of Spanish repositories RECOLECTA have organised a programme of webinars in 3 strands starting in October to discuss RDM issues:

Data can be cool

By bo@uoguelph.ca

October 6, 2011

As I prepare to leave Guelph there are lots of things I will miss - but what I will maybe miss most is the Data Resource Centre and the creative people who work there. If you link to the picasa album below you will see some awesome posters they have made to showcase services and bring people into the world of Data and GIS. The images on some of the posters are really powerful….

IASSIST SIGDC Meeting Held in Vancouver

By m.vardigan

June 22, 2011

The IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) met in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 1, with 15 people in attendance. The group discussed ways in which IASSIST members could influence data citation standards and behavior. Suggestions were made to: Inventory the resources that the SIG maintains and knows about Create a set of simple slides to share with faculty and students; these might include guidelines on citation format with examples but would not endorse a certain format Create posters on data citation to hang in prominent places Contact bibliographic software companies to make sure they include data as a specific resource type Contact style guides – APA, Chicago, MLA – to ensure that they are providing appropriate citations for data and including DOIs Create a set of Web pages on this topic on the IASSIST site Contact Google Scholar with a list of issues related to data Joachim Wackerow presented information on ways to make DOIs more machine-actionable.

Data Management & Curation Resources

By c.perry

May 6, 2011

Dear IASSIST members, The Data Management & Curation Good Practice Action Group has been working this past year to compile a list of links and resources related to Data Management & Curation. This group has been charged with “collecting a set of existing resources and links from among the membership to create a resource page on the public website covering the topics of good practice, standards, and activity in Data Management and Data Curation”.

Roper Centre recognition

By robin

April 7, 2011

To iassist: It isn’t every day that an incoming university president envies data over basketball! Congratulations to our colleagues at the Roper Center for this well deserved recognition. Susan Herbst, incoming President at the University of Connecticut: What about UConn drew you here? “There are many aspects of UConn that attracted me, but the primary one is the spirit of the institution. Growing up in the Northeast, I knew many people who attended UConn and held a deep, abiding love of the University.

IASSIST Election Results

By robin

April 5, 2011

[Posted on behalf of Ernie Boyko] Dear IASSIST Members I am pleased to announce the results of the 2011 IASSIST election. The members of the IASSIST Administrative Committee and their terms are as follows: President: Bill Block (2011-2013) Vice- President: Tuomas J. Alaterä (2011-2013) Regional Secretaries for the period 2011-2013 Africa: Lynn Woolfrey (2011-2013) Asia/Pacific Samuel Spencer (2011-2013) Canada Marilyn Andrews (2011-2013) Europe Iris Alfredsson (2011-2013) US San Cannon (2011-2013)

SBE 2020 white papers available

By pheus

February 4, 2011

The Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF/SBE) has released today a collection of white papers contributed under the “SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences” initiative. Authors were asked to outline grand challenge questions that are both foundational and transformative. For information, please visit: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/index.cfm {.moz-txt-link-freetext}The Open Data Foundation contributed to the following: Maximizing the Potential of Data: Modern IT Tools, Best Practices, and Metadata Standards for SBE Sciences Pascal Heus (pascal.

IASSIST 2012 Fellows Program

Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) meeting notes

Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information, and Data Services is open for business!

IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

Data can be cool

IASSIST SIGDC Meeting Held in Vancouver

Data Management & Curation Resources

Roper Centre recognition

IASSIST Election Results

SBE 2020 white papers available

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