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<p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting, but potentially of interest: the IASSIST 2020 Call for Proposals is out now!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitleCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IASSIST 2020 CALL FOR PROPOSALS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Conference website:
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://iassist2020.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://iassist2020.org/</span></a><span style="color:#222222"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Conference hashtag:
<span style="background:white">#IASSIST20</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The 46th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://iassistdata.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">IASSIST</span></a><span style="color:#222222">)
will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden</span><span style="color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:#222222">from May 19 to 22, 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Data by Design: Building a Sustainable Data Culture</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We welcome submissions that showcase the various ways our IASSIST community is approaching “data by design” and tackling the challenges of building and sustaining data communities, practices
and tools. In the tradition of Scandinavian design, characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality, we welcome modern or ambitious approaches that your organization has been looking at more recently to keep pace with the ever-increasing amount of
data, and new ways of publishing and accessing it. While a variety of submission topics are desired, we encourage you to think about if and how your topic may fit into one of the following tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><strong><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></strong><![endif]><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Partnerships and collaborations</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What is the data culture like at your organization? What infrastructure – hardware, software, people or policies – are you leveraging, and is it enough? Who do you partner and collaborate
with, both within and outside your own organization, and can we learn from these networking environments?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data management and archiving</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How can we build a community of data sharing that is equitable for all? How can we learn from each other’s approaches to demonstrating trust to lay a strong foundation?
Have you designed any new and useful approaches and tools that can help in this space?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data access, governance and ethics</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As data practitioners we adhere to key principles of protecting human rights and high ethical standards. What principles, practices and tools have you worked on around
data access, especially where there may be added risk in data publishing and use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data documentation and reproducibility</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For a data community to persist, members need to share a common data language. What new approaches are you using to design documentation to facilitate our shared understanding?
What strategies or tools have you designed that will help us respond best to the current reproducibility ‘crisis’?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data literacy</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A robust community includes not only experienced practitioners, but also newcomers. What innovative or successful approaches are you using around the topic of data literacy
and how can we, as a community, better equip new practitioners with this important skill?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This year we also welcome suggestions for Special Interest Group and Birds of a Feather sessions, and require a short proposal and a meeting agenda/discussion points to support these. Also, panel
proposals should be made up of speakers from multiple organizations to encourage diversity of debate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Finally, we expect to have many submissions, so we would kindly ask you to restrict submissions to one per person only.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submitting Proposals<span style="color:#C00000"> – DEADLINE: 6 December 2019<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome submissions for papers, presentations, panels, posters, and lightning talks.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Call for Presentations, along with the link to the submission form<span style="color:#1F497D">,
</span>is at: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://iassist2020.org/conference/call-for-presentations-workshops/call-for-proposals-presentations/">https://iassist2020.org/conference/call-for-presentations-workshops/call-for-proposals-presentations/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <i>Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Stephanie Tulley, Stephanie Labou, and Louise Corti) at
<a href="mailto:programme@lists.iassistdata.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">programme@lists.iassistdata.org</span></a>. </i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Call for Workshops, along with the link to the submission form, is at: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://iassist2020.org/conference/call-for-presentations-workshops/call-for-proposals-workshops/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://iassist2020.org/conference/call-for-presentations-workshops/call-for-proposals-workshops/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <i>Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to the Workshop Coordinators, Eimmy Solis and Amber Sherman, at
<a href="mailto:workshops@lists.iassistdata.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">workshops@lists.iassistdata.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#990000">Deadline for <u>ALL</u> submissions: 6 December
<span class="gmail-aqj">2019</span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#990000">Notification of acceptance: Mid-January 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Support for Attending Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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<a href="https://forms.gle/WcXocgWKZnz5CyL6A"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://forms.gle/WcXocgWKZnz5CyL6A</span></a> and will close January 17, 2020.<span style="color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Address questions about the Fellows Programs to Florio Arguillas (<a href="mailto:foa2@cornell.edu">foa2@cornell.edu</a>).</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg in 2020!<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Contact <a href="mailto:programme@lists.iassistdata.org">programme@lists.iassistdata.org</a> for questions.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Stephanie Labou</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Data Science Librarian</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The Library | University of California, San Diego</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:slabou@ucsd.edu"><span style="color:blue">slabou@ucsd.edu</span></a> | 858-822-4808<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">ORCID: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-5983">
<span style="color:blue">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-5983</span></a> </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Schedule a meeting: </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://calendly.com/slabou"><span style="color:blue">https://calendly.com/slabou</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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