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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.

Open Access to Federally Funded Research

By SWright

November 4, 2011

Got something to say about “ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research”? The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released two public consultations today, one on OA for data and one on OA for publications arising from publicly-funded research. Responses are due in early January. Please spread the word. Submit your own comments and/or work with colleagues to submit comments on behalf of your institution.

ANES Announcement: The ANES 2012 Time Series Study

By Darrell Donakowski

July 15, 2011

On June 30, 2011, the American National Election Studies (ANES) began accepting proposals for questions to include on the ANES 2012 Time Series Study. Proposals may be submitted through the ANES Online Commons. The following describes the goals of this study and the opportunity to include questions on it. About The ANES 2012 Time Series Study The ANES’s core mission is to promote cutting-edge and broadly-collaborative research on American national elections.

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.

Torture, Numbers, and Digital Tape

By kboye

February 2, 2011

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 33 number 3 is now on the web: [http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/33/3] With this issue concentrating on quantitative investigations and the use of statistics, I came to think of the Mark Twain citation “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” With the violent title of the first article (see below), the article on numbers and statistics, and the report from a national statistics agency, the “Torture,Numbers, and Digital Tape” title surfaced.

SPARC Digital Repositories meeting includes session on open data

By Chuck

November 10, 2010

Kathleen Shearer of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries organized and chaired a panel on Open Data was held at the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting on November 8, 2010. IASSIST members Gail Steinhart and Chuck Humphrey were two of the three members on this panel. Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), was the third. It has been two years since this group last met and the attendance was said to have doubled between meetings (looked like there were around 150 people present.

E-Science and Data Support

By bo@uoguelph.ca

August 25, 2010

[[[E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of Association of Research Libraries Member Institutions http://bit.ly/cKmaO6]{.entry-content}]{.status-content}]{.status-body} . This was tweeted to our site last week, but in case you weren’t following the tweets, this is worth a read. There are quotes from IASSIST folks, and there is some interesting information in it, in terms of what people are doing. This may help shape what you are doing. It has been blogged and tweeted elsewhere and is now posted on the Educause site.

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!

Open Access to Federally Funded Research

ANES Announcement: The ANES 2012 Time Series Study

Roper Centre recognition

Torture, Numbers, and Digital Tape

SPARC Digital Repositories meeting includes session on open data

E-Science and Data Support

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