Here it is, at long last - the words to the 2015 IASSIST conference song! Thanks to: Melanie Wright for her excellent guitar work, singing, and help with lyrics; Lisa Neidert, for lyric ideas; and the self-proclaimed Data-ettes (Daniel Edelstein, Joanne Webb, Kakia Chatsiou, Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Victoria Mitchell), for their enthusiasm and wonderful work singing the choruses. A link to a video will be added once someone informs me of its existence!
Sung to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind”; thanks to San, Paula, Bill, and Vince for their suggestions, and Vince, Dan and Kate for helping to drown out my own voice :) If anyone has a video version of this, send me the link, so I can add it here: If you could read my data What a tale these points would tell At Toronto’s IASSIST 40
Many thanks to Kate, Dan, and especially Melanie for this year’s bit of silliness. Thanks once again to Lynda Kellam for the video. (Sung to the tune of “Lili Marlene” If anyone wonders, the connection of the melody with Cologne is that the composer, Norbert Schultze, once studied in Cologne.) It’s 2013 IASSIST, and welcome to Cologne GESIS has endeavored to make us feel at home Data innovation was the theme
My thanks to Vince Gray, Lisa Neidert, and Melanie Wright for help with the lyrics, Melanie for the great guitar accompaniment, and Melanie, Vince, and Kate McNeill for singing along (and thereby drowning out the sound of what passes for my singing voice :) (Sung, sort of, to the tune of “America the beautiful”) It’s 2012 in Washington, We met for IASSIST; Unfortunately we’re all done, But memories persist -
Sung to the tune of Bryan Adam’s “Summer of ‘69” : We all came to Vancouver in spring 2-0-1-1 IASSISTers gather together this is gonna be fun! Day long Admin meeting Ann skyped in for Constitutional change and we kept it all to the schedule Now that was really strange oh, and when the Canucks won, the cheering seemed to last forever and that really set the scene for the best IASSIST ever
Here it is: music by Leonard Cohen, lyrics by Melanie Wright and company. Now you can sing along to the YouTube video. Open Data We made our way to Montreal Where everybody knows f&*% all And no one’s gonna tell you “see you later." Admin committee steaming hot Went on and on ’til we asked what Does all this have to do with Open Data? Chorus: Open Data, Open Data,
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