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ICPSR DataBytes: Winter 2012



In This Issue


ICPSR's Winter Byte
Temperature Rising for the 2014 Summer Program!
A Look Back at a Year of Innovation
Looking Ahead, Strategically
New ICPSR Council Members to be Seated in March
Insights on Research, Direct from the Researcher
Using ICPSR Data to Teach about Love and Attraction
openICPSR--a Soft Launch for the Membership!
A Search for Sustainability--Domain Repositories
Call for Student Research Papers on Data Curation
A Free Workshop for Consumer Expenditure Survey Users
Get Connected in Time for Spring!

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ICPSR's Winter Byte

What a winter it has been! With record-breaking low temperatures, endless  
snowfall, and lots of progress to share, it's time for our winter edition  
of DataBytes !


Temperature Rising for 2014 Summer Program!

Registration is open for the 2014 Summer Program! The four-week courses run  
June 23-July 18 and July 21-August 15. Several three- to five-day workshops  
beginning in May also are in development. Sign up to receive email  
notifications regarding workshop additions and/or watch for announcements  
on our social media pages!

A Look Back at a Year of Innovation

ICPSR's 2012-2013 annual report (PDF) is now available. The report  
documents an inventive and productive year in which membership grew to 724,  
an increase of 19 percent over the prior year, and the ICPSR Summer Program  
achieved record enrollment.


Looking Ahead, Strategically

ICPSR's new Strategic Plan is now available online. This Plan is the result  
of approximately a year of effort to develop a multiyear vision. It sets  
priorities for the organization to maintain our leadership position in data  
curation and stewardship and to promote social and behavioral research.


New ICPSR Council Members to be Seated in March

ICPSR is pleased to welcome six new members to its Governing Council and to  
announce the appointment of Council member Christopher Achen to a two-year  
term as Council Chair. The new members are Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio  
State University; Robert Chen, Center for International Earth Science  
Information Network; Philip Jefferson, Swarthmore College; Chandra Muller,  
University of Texas at Austin; Ronald Nakao, Stanford University; and  
William Vega, University of Southern California.

Insights on Research, Direct from the Researcher

The Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) at ICPSR is pleased to make  
available a new article based on an in-depth interview with Ruben G.  
Rumbaut, professor of sociology at University of California, Irvine, and a  
Principal Investigator of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study  
(CILS). Rumbaut explains how the CILS began and comments on its objectives  
and major findings--providing useful advice for other researchers who are  
attempting to analyze the data.

Using ICPSR Data to Teach about Love and Attraction

Just in time for Valentine's Day, ICPSR's Resources for Instructors  
announced the release of a new Data-Driven Learning Guide, "Is Love Really  
Blind?" DDLGs are designed by teaching faculty to help build data literacy  
in undergraduate classrooms.

openICPSR--a Soft Launch for the Membership!

openICPSR launched in beta form for use by the membership on February 24,  
2014. Individuals from member institutions may use the self-deposit option  
for free during the beta period that runs through June 30, 2014. openICPSR  
is a research data-sharing service for the social and behavioral sciences.  
It allows the public to access research data at no charge (or in the case  
of restricted-use data, at nominal charge). Individuals at member  
institutions should contact their Official Representative to obtain the  
promotion code for free self-deposit.


A Search for Sustainability--Domain Repositories

More than two dozen data repositories serving the social, natural, and  
physical sciences have released a white paper recommending new approaches  
to fund the sharing and preserving of scientific data. "Sustaining Domain  
Repositories for Digital Data: A White Paper" (PDF), emphasizes the need  
for sustainable funding of domain repositories--data archives with ties to  
specific scientific communities.

Call for Student Research Papers on Data Curation

ICPSR invites original student submissions for a research paper competition  
on the topic of data curation. This competition, awarding $1,000 to the  
first-place paper, has the purpose of encouraging and highlighting  
exemplary student research on data curation, including, but not limited to,  
such topics as data management planning, supporting the data curation  
lifecycle, metadata, data confidentiality, preservation, and cost modeling.  
Deadline for submission is May 30, 2014.

A Free Workshop for Consumer Expenditure Survey Users

The Consumer Expenditure Survey(CE) is excited to announce that  
registration for the ninth annual Microdata Users' Workshop July 16-18,  
2014 in Washington DC is now open! The free workshop provides a unique  
opportunity for CE data users to receive hands-on training and access to CE  
microdata experts.

Get Connected in Time for Spring!

Spring is almost here (really!), and it's going to be an exciting time for  
ICPSR and the data community. Be sure to get the latest updates via ICPSR's  
announcements on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, and via our  
opt-in email list: icpsr-announce. Think spring!



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