[Rdap] IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers

[Abigail Goben]

*IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS*



Conference website: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/

Conference hashtag: #iassistcarto



The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social
Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST
<http://iassistdata.org/>) will be jointly held with the 52nd annual
conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (
ACMLA-ACACC <https://acmla-acacc.ca/>) in Montréal, Québec, Canada from May
28-June 1, 2018.



*Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers*



In many ways, researchers are data storytellers: they create compelling
data-supported narratives for examining both historical and current social
phenomena and for facilitating social change and reconciliation. We
professionals who support these data storytellers play vital roles in
giving their data stories life. We assist our data storytellers in:



·         Discovering existing and collecting new data from which to craft
the stories.

·         Analyzing and managing data to uncover the stories hiding within.

·         Visualizing data to offer vivid and meaningful illustrations to
enhance the stories.

·         Teaching data literacy skills to their audiences so they can
understand and critique the stories.

·         Curating, archiving, and sharing data so that the stories are not
lost for future generations, and so new data storytellers may weave even
more stories from the data.



And we conduct our own research to tell our own stories and to also improve
our support of other data storytellers.



We welcome submissions that tell diverse stories about our IASSIST and
ACMLA-ACACC communities’ experiences, that offer conference attendees
suggestions of how they can implement or adapt lessons for their own work,
and that have wide-reaching appeal to our international attendees. Although
the positive outcomes are always something people want to hear, there’s
also an appetite for learning about the things that didn’t go well,
particularly any problems you faced and how others might avoid or handle
them.



So bring us your data comedies, tragedies, epics, horror stories,
mysteries, histories, thrillers, adventures, fables, fantasies, science
fiction, and even romances if you’ve got them! We look forward to sharing,
learning from, and adapting each other's stories.





*Submitting Proposals*



We welcome submissions for papers, presentations, panels, posters, and
Pecha Kuchas in English and French.



The Call for Presentations, along with the link to the submission form, is
at:

http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/call-for-proposals/



Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program
Co-Chairs (Jay Brodeur, Laurence Horton, and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh) at
iassist2018 at gmail.com.



We are also accepting submissions for Pre-conference Workshops. The Call
for Workshops, along with the link to the submission form, is at:

http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/workshops/



Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to Workshop Coordinators,
Jenny Muilenburg (jmuil at uw.edu) and Andy Rutkowski (arutkows at usc.edu).





*Deadline for ALL submissions: 20 November 2017*

*Notification of acceptance: February 2018*



*Support for Attending the Conference*

IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from underrepresented
regions and countries with emerging economies. IASSIST Early Professional
Fellows Program helps early career data professionals recognizing the value
of innovative ideas. Applications can be made at https://goo.gl/forms/
dr6fie6XJyOKR4Ee2 and will close *19 January 2018.*

Address questions about the Fellows Programs to Florio Arguillas (
foa2 at cornell.edu) and Stuart Macdonald (stuart.macdonald at ed.ac.uk).





-- 
Abigail Goben, MLS
abigailgoben at gmail.com
http://HedgehogLibrarian.com
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