[DDI-users] Call for papers: 41st IASSIST Annual Conference

[Samuel Spencer]

Apologies for the cross-posting.

*CALL FOR PAPERS *
* 41st IASSIST Annual Conference *
*2 – 5 June 2015, Minneapolis, MN *
*Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the International Context *

The theme of our 2015 conference is Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the
International Context. Going hand in hand with the well-known digital
divide is a growing inequity in access to data. Increasing budget concerns
have placed strains on governments, universities, and other institutions in
the provision of data services. From the cancellation of the Statistical
Abstracts of the United States, to the controversy over the Canadian Census
long form, to political barriers in the data collection process in some
countries, access to data and the data divide presents organizational,
economic and educational challenges to the community of data professionals
worldwide.

As data professionals it is our role to demonstrate how access to data
improves organizational standing and relevance, how shared infrastructure
reduces the costs for agencies to setup data sharing platforms and how
developing data literacy programs fits with the mission of our
universities. This year, the international focus of IASSIST shines on how
we can improve access to data for people across the globe.

We welcome submissions on the theme outlined above and encourage conference
participants to propose papers and sessions that will be of interest to a
diverse audience. To facilitate the organization and scheduling of
sessions, three distinct tracks have been established. If you are unsure to
which track your submission belongs or if you feel that it applies to more
than one track, submit your proposal and if accepted, the Program Committee
will find an appropriate fit.

 Track 1: Research Data Management
• Data management within the global research data ecosystem
• Data archives and repositories in the global data ecosystem
• Best practices in the global data ecosystem
• Data archiving and publishing – issues and challenges
• New data types and their management
• Challenges in exchanging research data across disciplines
• Data linkage in the creation of new social science data
• Metadata enabling the interoperability of research data
• Application of DDI, SDMX, other metadata schema, taxonomies or ontologies
in research data management
• Data management policies and workflow systems • Working with ethics
review boards and research service offices

Track 2: Data Services Professional Development
• Training challenges considering the variety of professional positions
within the data profession, which includes data curators, data scientists,
data librarians, data archivists, etc.
• Providing data services with limited resources and budgetary constraints
• Teaching users to work with research data
• Data and statistical literacy
• Data collection development in libraries and other institutions
• Explorations of data across subject areas and geographic regions
• Copyright clearance, privacy and confidential data
• Interdisciplinarity – promoting the cross-use of data
• Training researchers about research data management
• Liaison librarians’ roles in research data

 Track 3: Data Infrastructure and Applications
• Encouraging cross-boundary (national, organizational) collaboration to
support research data
• New infrastructure requirements in the global data ecosystem
• Infrastructure supporting Data Without Boundaries
• Tools to develop and support new social science data
• Crowdsourcing applications in producing new social science data
• Data dives or hackathons
• API development supporting research data management
• Open data web services – benefits and challenges
• Applications of research data visualization in the social sciences
• Preservation tools for research data
• Tools for data mining
• Data technology platforms: cloud computing and open stack storage

Conference Formats

 The Program Committee welcomes proposals for the following formats:

 • NEW: Paper proposal

   - For the 2015 conference we will have a paper format in which
   presenters are required to submit an original research paper in advance of
   the conference and present and discuss its findings at the conference. We
   will select submissions based on proposals and the authors of accepted
   proposals are required to submit their final and complete papers by April
   1, 2015. All papers will be eligible for publication consideration in an
   edition of IASSIST Quarterly. In addition, one paper will be selected as
   best paper with a prize of one free registration for a future IASSIST
   conference.

 • Individual presentation proposal

   - Typically this format is a 15-20 minute talk ideally accompanied by a
   written paper. If your individual proposal is accepted, you will be grouped
   into an appropriate session with similar presentations.

• Sessions proposal

   - You may propose an entire session with a set of presenters and topics.
   The session proposal can take a variety of forms (e.g. a set of three to
   four presentations, a discussion panel, a discussion with the audience,
   etc.). If accepted, the person who proposed the session becomes the session
   organizer and is responsible for securing speakers and a chair.

Posters or demonstrations proposal

   - Proposals in this category should identify the message being conveyed
   in the poster or the demonstration.

Pecha Kucha proposal

   - A pecha kucha is a highly visual presentation that consists of 20
   slides shown for 20 seconds each. Presentations in this category are timed
   and speakers are restricted to seven minutes. These are not your typical
   conference presentations. We encourage you to check out
   http://www.pechakucha.org/ for more information, and for an example take
   a look at Data Science for Social Good

Round table discussions proposals

   - Round table discussions typically take place during lunch and have
   limited seating. Please indicate how you plan to share the output of your
   discussion to all of IASSIST when writing your proposal.

Session formats are not limited to the ideas above and session organizers
are welcome to suggest other formats. All submissions should include the
proposed title and an abstract no longer than 200 words (note: longer
abstracts will be returned to be shortened before being considered). Please
note that all presenters are required to register and pay the registration
fee for the conference; registration for individual days will be available.

Please use this online submission form
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fiassistdata.org%2Fconferences%2Fiassist-2015-call-papers&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeZJBBmq3XmX92p94gHcRoRbukaAQ>
to
submit your proposal. If you are unsure which track your submission fits or
if you feel it belongs in more than one track, the Program Committee will
find an appropriate place.

 Under a separate call:
• Workshop proposals

   - Successful proposals will blend lecture and active learning
   techniques. The conference planning committee will provide the necessary
   classroom space and computing supplies for workshops. Typically workshops
   are half-day with 2-hour and 3-hour options. For more information about
   workshops, please contact Samantha Guss (samantha.guss at nyu.edu) or
   Katharin Peter (kpeter at usc.edu).

Deadline for submission: 21 November 2014
Notification of acceptance: 16 January 2015

• Questions about sessions/paper submissions may be sent to the Program
Chairs (iassist15 at gmail.com)
• Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to the Workshop
Co-Coordinators, Samantha Guss (samantha.guss at nyu.edu) or Katharin Peter (
kpeter at usc.edu).
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