Data Citation

New IQ!

By robin

March 26, 2009

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 31 issue 2 - 2007) is now available on the web: http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html This issue will be printed and mailed to the membership. From next issue IASSIST will be saving trees and only publish the IQ on the web. We hope you agree with our decision. Thanks. Some of you are now getting ready for the IASSIST conference in Tampere, Finland 26.-29. of May. Remember if you are giving presentations that you could write the presentation as an article for the IQ.

New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

By robin

February 4, 2009

The UK Data Archive would like to announce the release of its new suite of web pages providing guidance on data management and sharing. The pages provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets. Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic. These are: · Sharing data - why and how?

Official Release of the Data Documentation Initiative 3.0

By robin

May 26, 2008

May 21, 2008 – The Alliance for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is pleased to announce the official release of Version 3.0 of the DDI XML specification for documenting social science data. This long awaited version of the DDI represents a major advance by fully incorporating XML Schemas and moving to a data life cycle approach. We thank all the members of the DDI working groups as well as DDI users who have volunteered their time and efforts over the past years to make this specification a reality.

Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

By robin

February 22, 2008

The Open Data Foundation is pleased to announce that an ODaF Europe 2008 meeting will take place at the UK Data Archive on April 14-15. This regional event is open to all members as well as individuals and agencies interested to learn more about ODaF or to share ideas. For further information and registration, see http://www.opendatafoundation.org/events/odaf_europe_2008.php Looking into the future, we currently anticipate holding a US regional meeting on Oct 2-3 at the Sun Microsystems headquarters in Manhattan, NY and our Annual Meeting in Washington DC in December.

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

By robin

February 1, 2008

Announcing new deliverables from the DISC-UK DataShare project: DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools, by Stuart Macdonald. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez. Both briefing papers can be retrieved from http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html . There is also a new “Collective Intelligence” page with a tag cloud to links from our social bookmarks of reports, websites, and blogs related to the project themes. http://www.disc-uk.org/collective.html A newsfeed of deliverables and new bookmarks is available from the project blog at http://jisc-datashare.

IASSIST 2008 - Call for Papers!

By robin

October 29, 2007

Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation The 34th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference will be held at the Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, May 27-30, 2008. This year’s conference, Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation, examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle. The theme of this conference addresses how technology can affect aspects of data stewardship throughout the data lifecycle.

New IQ issue - intro from the editor

By robin

June 15, 2007

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 30 issue 2 - 2006) is now available on the web: http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol30.html Winter came late in Denmark, but suddenly the situation was normal: snow came and traffic stopped. And now 14 days after spring was here in March. I sat outside in the sun reading articles. Still it’s more difficult to write articles outside, we are waiting for the improvements of the computer screens. However, some people have stayed inside to write articles for the IASSIST Quarterly.

Cataloging query: how does cataloging data differ from traditional library material?

By San

June 19, 2006

In their never ending quest for information, Jen, Tiffani and Paula would like to know about people’s experiences cataloging data. Do you use MARC format? Have you tried using DDI? At what level do you tend to catalog collections? How does it depart from cataloging traditional library matter? Enquiring minds want to know. Contributed by Jen Darragh

New IQ!

New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

Official Release of the Data Documentation Initiative 3.0

Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

IASSIST 2008 - Call for Papers!

New IQ issue - intro from the editor

Cataloging query: how does cataloging data differ from traditional library material?

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