<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="text-align:start">Apologies for the cross-posting.</span><b><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">C</span><span style="font-size:10pt">ALL </span><span style="font-size:10pt">FOR PAPERS </span></b></div></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b> 41st IASSIST Annual Conference </b></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b>2 – 5 June 2015, Minneapolis, MN </b></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b>Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the International Context </b></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The theme of our 2015 conference is Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the International Context. <span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Track 1: Research Data Management </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data management within the global research data ecosystem </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data archives and repositories in the global data ecosystem </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Best practices in the global data ecosystem </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data archiving and publishing – issues and challenges</span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• New data types and their management </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Challenges in exchanging research data across disciplines </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data linkage in the creation of new social science data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Metadata enabling the interoperability of research data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Application of DDI, SDMX, other metadata schema, taxonomies or ontologies in research data management </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data management policies and workflow systems • Working with ethics review boards and research service offices </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Track 2: Data Services Professional Development </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Training challenges considering the variety of professional positions within the data profession, which includes data curators, data scientists, data librarians, data archivists, etc. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Providing data services with limited resources and budgetary constraints </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Teaching users to work with research data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data and statistical literacy </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data collection development in libraries and other institutions </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Explorations of data across subject areas and geographic regions </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Copyright clearance, privacy and confidential data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Interdisciplinarity – promoting the cross-use of data</span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Training researchers about research data management </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Liaison librarians’ roles in research data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Track 3: Data Infrastructure and Applications </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Encouraging cross-boundary (national, organizational) collaboration to support research data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• New infrastructure requirements in the global data ecosystem </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Infrastructure supporting Data Without Boundaries </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Tools to develop and support new social science data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Crowdsourcing applications in producing new social science data</span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data dives or hackathons </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• API development supporting research data management </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Open data web services – benefits and challenges</span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Applications of research data visualization in the social sciences </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Preservation tools for research data </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Tools for data mining </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Data technology platforms: cloud computing and open stack storage </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Conference Formats </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> The Program Committee welcomes proposals for the following formats: </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> • NEW: Paper proposal </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> • Individual presentation proposal </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">• Sessions proposal </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">Posters or demonstrations proposal </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Proposals in this category should identify the message being conveyed in the poster or the demonstration. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">Pecha Kucha proposal </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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 <a href="http://www.pechakucha.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pechakucha.org/</a> for more information, and for an example take a look at Data Science for Social Good </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">Round table discussions proposals </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please use this <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fiassistdata.org%2Fconferences%2Fiassist-2015-call-papers&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeZJBBmq3XmX92p94gHcRoRbukaAQ" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(85,26,139)">online submission form</a> 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.</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Under a separate call: </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Workshop proposals </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">S</span><span style="font-size:10pt">uccessful 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 (<a href="mailto:samantha.guss@nyu.edu" target="_blank">samantha.guss@nyu.edu</a>) or Katharin Peter (<a href="mailto:kpeter@usc.edu" target="_blank">kpeter@usc.edu</a>). </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt">Deadline for submission: 21 November 2014 </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Notification of acceptance: 16 January 2015</span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Questions about sessions/paper submissions may be sent to the Program Chairs (<a href="mailto:iassist15@gmail.com" target="_blank">iassist15@gmail.com</a>) </span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt">• Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to the Workshop Co-Coordinators, Samantha Guss (<a href="mailto:samantha.guss@nyu.edu" target="_blank">samantha.guss@nyu.edu</a>) or Katharin Peter (<a href="mailto:kpeter@usc.edu" target="_blank">kpeter@usc.edu</a>).</span></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></font></span>
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