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Looking Back/Moving Forward - Reflections on the First Ten Years of Open Repositories

By t.alatera

July 3, 2015

Open Repositories conference celebrated its first decade by having four full days of exciting workshops, keynotes, sessions, 24/7 talks, and development track and repository interest group sessions in Indianapolis, USA. All the fun took place in the second week of June. The OR2015 conference was themed “Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads” and it brought over 400 repository developers and managers, librarians and library IT professionals, service providers and other experts to hot and humid Indy.

New IQ now available!

By StuartM

June 1, 2015

**Editor notes: ** Data, the whole Data, and nothing but the Data … and the Metadata, and the Access to Data Welcome to the third issue of volume 38 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 38:3, 2014). This issue is unquestionably about data. There are three papers on projects for improving delivery of data to users. The first paper is ‘Distributing Access to Data, not Data’ by David Schiller from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at Nuremberg (Germany) and Richard Welpton at UK Data Archive, University of Essex (UK).

Winner announced for first IASSIST Paper Competition

By robin

May 29, 2015

Dear IASSIST Members, In our call for this year’s conference we included a new Paper Track that would require members to submit a full paper in advance of the conference. We also created a best paper competition as an incentive to submit. I have the pleasure to announce a winner of our first IASSIST Paper Competition! The winning paper was “Sustainability of Social Science Data Archives: A Historical Network Perspective” by Kristin R.

IASSIST election results, 2015

By robin

April 17, 2015

Hello IASSISTers! Here are the official results of the 2015 IASSIST elections. There was a 61% voter turnout. The winning candidates are: President: Tuomas Alaterä Vice President: Jen Green Secretary: Ryan Womack Africa Regional Secretary: Lynn Woolfrey Asia-Pacific Regional Secretary: Sam Spencer Canada Regional Secretary: Carol Perry Europe Regional Secretary: David Schiller USA Regional Secretary: San Cannon AC Member, Canada: Berenica Vejvoda AC Members, Europe: Oliver Watteler and Arne Wolters

IASSIST Fellows Program 2014-15

By StuartIQ

November 12, 2014

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2015 conference in Minneapolis [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/iassist-2015/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting 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 an IASSIST Fellow award.

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.

New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

By StuartM

March 20, 2014

Editor’s notes Special issue: The organizational dimension of digital preservation Welcome to the special double issue 3 & 4 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 36 (2012). This special issue addresses the organizational dimension of digital preservation as it was presented and discussed at the IASSIST conference in May 2013 in Cologne, Germany. The two guest editors Astrid Recker and Natascha Schumann from the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne have earned special thanks.

IASSIST Fellows Program 2013-14

By StuartM

November 19, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2014 conference in Toronto [http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/iassist/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting 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 an IASSIST Fellow award.

IASSIST 2014 Call for Papers

By robin

November 14, 2013

ALIGNING DATA AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IASSIST 2014 Annual Conference Call for Paper and Session Proposals This year’s conference theme touches upon the international and interdisciplinary requirements of aligning data and research infrastructure. The 2013 OECD Global Science Forum report on New Data for Understanding the Human Condition identifies key challenges for international data collaboration that beg for new solutions. Among these challenges is the mounting pressure for new forms of social science data.

Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

By DHaans

October 1, 2013

CRDCN Database Builder Splash Screen The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is pleased to announce the release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder. In collaboration with Statistics Canada and Metadata Technology North America, the Dataset Builder allows researchers working (or intending to work) in a Canadian RDC the ability to browse, search for and select variables in the Statistics Canada surveys currently housed in the RDCs. Utilizing DDI Lifecycle metadata, the Dataset Builder allows researchers to find and select variables, as well as produce SAS, SPSS or Stata syntax to help read in and format the variables, and produce customized documentation (Layout and Codebooks) for the dataset they create using the app.

Looking Back/Moving Forward - Reflections on the First Ten Years of Open Repositories

New IQ now available!

Winner announced for first IASSIST Paper Competition

IASSIST election results, 2015

IASSIST Fellows Program 2014-15

New 'Special Issue' IQ now available!

New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

IASSIST Fellows Program 2013-14

IASSIST 2014 Call for Papers

Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

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