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2013 Biennial ICPSR Meeting

mcianna — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:11:00 +0000

October 9-11, 2013
Ann Arbor

ICPSR is excited to announce that the registration site for the 2013 Biennial Meeting is now open! This year's conference theme is "Beyond Access: Curating Data for Discovery, Re-Use, and Impact." ICPSR is pleased to be participating in efforts to broaden access to research data while at the same time curating data to ensure that they can be found and used effectively for generations to come. Curating data benefits the entire research community and maximizes research investment.

Though ICPSR has been in the data sharing space for over 50 years, we continue to refine our approaches to data management and training. With over 15 workshops and sessions, this biennial meeting will highlight ICPSR's recent developments in the areas of open access, restricted data management, training and education, digital curation, and importantly, new data tools. In addition, this meeting serves as an opportunity for researchers, teaching faculty, librarians, policymakers, and data professionals to gather and share ideas that will aid us as a data community to facilitate research and make impact.

Participation in this ICPSR meeting is limited to individuals from ICPSR Member Institutions and invited presenters and guests. There are no registration fees for this meeting.

ICPSR's program and workshops will focus on training attendees to use ICPSR's data tools including the Social Science Variables Database, online analysis (SDA), secure data analysis systems, data-driven teaching resources, and ICPSR's various data collections. It will also provide training in data curation and introductory statistical software use. Workshops begin on Wednesday, October 9, and the meeting concludes at 1:30 on Friday, October 11.

In addition, the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) is proud to announce that its second international conference will be held on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, in Ann Arbor, MI, the day before the ICPSR Biennial Meeting begins.

The link for the 2013 meeting is: 2013 Biennial ICPSR Meeting

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Webinar: The Legal and Policy Landscape for Research Data

Wendi Fornoff — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:34:00 +0000

Join us for a Webinar on April 25.

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now.

Intellectual property and associated policy issues surrounding data sharing, use and reuse can be tricky to understand and apply in academic research settings. In this Webinar, MacKenzie Smith will discuss the legal and policy landscape for research data, including clarifying laws governing data and explaining challenges and opportunities to improving data governance from a non-lawyer's perspective.

The Webinar will be presented by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis and research fellow for the Creative Commons organization, where she has worked extensively on data governance and intellectual property policy for data, and particularly scientific research data.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

Title: The Legal and Policy Landscape for Research Data
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Tentative schedule for OR meeting announced

danmeisler — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:19:00 +0000

ICPSR is pleased to announce the tentative program content (and extremely tentative schedule!) for the ICPSR Biennial meeting taking place October 9-11, 2013. We expect to launch the registration site in May. We hope to see you in Ann Arbor in October!

WORKSHOP CONTENT & EVENTS

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

A Tour through the Statistical Software Maze - ICPSR offers data in a variety of statistical software formats as well as online analysis (SDA) capabilities. This hands-on introduction will enable attendees to get to know the software and SDA removing curiosity and perhaps some trepidation! Note: this is an introductory workshop - no statistical background is assumed.

An Orientation to the China Data Center (tentative) - This workshop is an orientation to The China Data Center at the University of Michigan, now a unit withing ICPSR. The CDC is an international Center designed to advance the study and understanding of China. A primary goal of the Center is the integration of historical, social and natural science data in a geographic information system, where spatial and temporal references are maintained through a relational database. This will facilitate comparative and interdisciplinary uses of the data, enable both non-specialists and China scholars to understand and utilize these data, and enhance knowledge of China.

Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use - Participants will learn about best practices for curating and managing research data, how to apply them to daily operations, and the types of tools that can assist. This workshop borrows highlights from the 5-day workshop offered during the ICPSR Summer Program.

Teaching to "Teach with Data" - This workshop will provide tools, resources, and advice in assisting faculty, (even data-phobic faculty) to incorporate data into their curriculum.

Orientation for New ORs (DRs): Fundamentals and an Introduction to the OR/DR role - This session for new (and not so new) ORs will cover details on the organization of ICPSR and its governance, roles and responsibilities of the OR, where and to whom you can go for help, location and use of the ICPSR Web site, tips and tools for helping your users, and promoting ICPSR on your campus. This session is a must for those who are new to ICPSR. Come learn what makes this organization and the data it distributes so great!

ICPSR Refresher Course - After a short break from the OR/DR Orientation, this course will cover a broad overview of how to work effectively with ICPSR’s Web site, a rapid tour through ICPSR various data collections and data tools including the Online Learning Center. We’ll also orient you to new research projects at ICPSR, as well as introduce you to some of the ORs that make ICPSR proud.

ICPSR Council Meeting – The October 2013 meeting of the ICPSR Council (Perry Building).

ICPSR Council Welcome Reception - Come launch the 2013 Biennial meeting with ICPSR Council, ICPSR staff, and fellow attendees at the Welcome Reception. Brief tours of ICPSR headquarters will be offered. For dinner on your own afterwards, dining guides to help you select from among Ann Arbor's many restaurants within walking distance are found in your tote bags.

MEETING SESSION CONTENT & EVENTS

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Networking Breakfast

Access from A to Z! - The demand for 'free' open access is marching on, but access to professionally-curated data and long term preservation isn't free. Attend this session for a tour of the numerous initiatives ICPSR is undertaking to open access to research data (including restricted data!) while 'preserving' and promoting the benefits of professionally curated data. A demonstration of a new 'data hosting' system is included in this session.

What? I did not know you had that data. - Data of intrigue and interest at ICPSR - This session will orient attendees to intriguing, sometimes controversial, data held within the ICPSR collections! Included in this discussion is expected to be: The New Family Structures survey; Gates Millennium Scholars project; Army STARRS project; Monitoring the Future; The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health); LGBT archive.

What's Your (Data) Type? - Explore data of various 'types' including contextual and geographic data.

Supporting Teaching Faculty with Data - "Quantitative literacy." "Quantitative reasoning." "Critical thinking." Institutions are very familiar with these terms and supportive of the goals. How best can we support (and encourage!) faculty with data and data tools? Come share the experience of ORs in this support role and share your own!

Business Meeting Luncheon - Join fellow ORs, Council, Staff, and guests for a State of the Consortium report. Bring your appetites and your questions. Report presentation to begin at approximately 12:15 pm.

Speed Networking & Knowledge-Building! - Back by popular demand, this session, facilitated by fellow ORs, enables attendees to select up to four different topics they would like to explore with other attendees for 20 minutes each. Sessions are expected to include topics such as: Use of ICPSR/data in small colleges; ICPSR use as an international member; Teaching with ICPSR/data in the classroom; Career development opportunities for professionals in the data community; Encouraging data sharing/working with data depositors; Assisting data phobic faculty to bring data into the classroom, and more.

ICPSR Poster Session - Spectators AND participants are welcome to attend the ICPSR Poster Session. Several of the ICPSR units and data collections will be on hand to answer your questions. In addition, any meeting attendee desiring to present a poster to this data community is welcome and encouraged to do so. Details on the poster session will be found on the ICPSR Biennial meeting Web site expected to launch in May.

ICPSR Awards Banquet - Join fellow meeting attendees for a dinner and the presentation of the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences and the William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Services as an ICPSR Official Representative.

Friday October 11, 2013

Networking Breakfast

An Introduction to Curating & Managing Research Data for Re-Use - Learn about best practices for curating and managing research data by taking an introductory tour of the ICPSR data pipeline from acquisition to access! This session is an abbreviated version of the Wednesday workshop. Bring your questions!

Promoting ICPSR and Data Use Across Campus - This session will start with a cup of coffee and a brief tour of the on-demand tools available to member institutions to ease the process of promoting ICPSR on campus. The session will really get percolating when fellow ORs describe how they promote ICSPR and data use across their own campuses and outside of typical social science disciplines! Questions and sharing of effective techniques from attendees will be rewarded (with more creative ideas to take with you!).

Teaching with ICPSR Data Tools - Explore the many data tools, content, and opportunities that ICPSR has developed to assist in getting data into the classroom! Learn how ORs have incorporated those ICPSR tools into the classroom and how they have encouraged others on their campus to do so.

A "Timely" Tour of ICPSR Data Collections, Projects, & Initiatives - This lightning talk will present a tour of ICPSR's topical data archives, sponsored projects, and data-related initiatives. Each speaker will have a few minutes to orient you to their project or unit providing you enough information to understand the content and then go out later and explore the project effectively on your own.

Box Lunch Pick-up - To maximize time and accommodate Friday flight scheduling, come to pick up a box lunch and proceed to your last session!

Start Your Engines with Data Tools at ICPSR! - On your mark! Get ready for a speed demonstration of several of ICPSR's new and improved data tools. This lighting talk will showcase tools including the SSVD, compare variables tools, the bibliography of data-related literature, restricted data management tools, data hosting, the data deposit form, and more. The presentations will be fast - but there is always time for questions!

Data Discovery Strategies - The Unending Quest for Data! - This session will begin with an overview of data discovery tools that are useful to narrowing the search of ICPSR's over 8,000 studies/65,000 data sets. It will proceed with stories from fellow ORs as they tell tales of interesting approaches to unique data requests. Have a unique request of your own? Come ask your fellow ORs how they would approach your challenge. We guarantee you cannot stump them!

Buses Depart for Metro Airport - See the signs and watch for ICPSR to get you loaded for a prompt 1:45 pm departure for the airport. Riders can expect to arrive to the airport about 2:45 pm.

(CZO-NO) Program for Submission in - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:06:53 +0000

What should be included in the Data Management Plan (DMP) and where should I place this section? 8. I would like to submit some additional tabular material ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13064/nsf13064.pdf

Artificial Retina Receives FDA Approval - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:56:20 +0000

... is a 'system on a chip' of mixed voltages and mixed analog-digital design, which provides self-contained power and data management and other functionality.
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126756

ICPSR to award $20,000 challenge grants for projects on open access and data stewardship

danmeisler — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:30:00 +0000

ICPSR is pleased to announce a Challenge Grants program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Through this program, ICPSR will fund innovative projects to promote open access to data, support research transparency, improve data citation, and more generally build good practice in data management and stewardship. ICPSR expects to award three to five grants of up to $20,000 each. Proposals are due on April 15, 2013.

For example, we're looking for projects that will result in published articles in peer-reviewed journals or presentations at major conferences; research on the costs of data archiving or on data replication practices; or innovative business models for data repositories.

More information on the Challenge Grants program is available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/datamanagement/sloan-challenge-2013.pdf.

Individuals interested in applying should also attend the upcoming Webinar on "Improving Data Citation and Data Management: The Sloan-ICPSR Challenge Grants Program" to learn more about the program and how to apply. This Webinar will be offered on Friday, February 22, at 12pm EST. To register, please go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/ register/729908986.

Program for Submission in Year 2013 - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:20:05 +0000

What should be included in the Data Management Plan (DMP) and where should I place this section? 14. I would like to submit some additional tabular material ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13033/nsf13033.pdf

TXT - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:32:15 +0000

... traffic signal management and control, traffic incident and event management, and passenger and freight data management. These requirements will advance ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13034/nsf13034.txt

Dear Colleague Letter: NSF-FHWA Coordination on Cyber Physical ...

(author unknown) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:48:36 +0000

passenger and freight data management. ... communications, shared human- machine control systems, data management and system performance assessment ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13034/nsf13034.pdf

CyberSEES - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:24:06 +0000

Do CyberSEES proposals require data management plans? What other supplementary documents are necessary? 15. Who can attend PI meetings? Can my ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13029/nsf13029.pdf

TITLE: Frequently Asked Questions for NSF 12-610: Hazard SEES ...

(author unknown) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:04:43 +0000

Do all proposals require a Data Management Plan? And do all proposals require a Management and Integration Plan as well? Yes. All Hazards SEES proposals ...
nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13028/nsf13028.txt

Dear Colleague Letter: Clarification for Cascadia Initiative proposals

(author unknown) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:34:01 +0000

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management Center (DMC). The data are available to everyone. However, the data initially lack ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13023/nsf13023.pdf

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - NSF Official to ...

(author unknown) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:35:06 +0000

This webcast will help government information technology professionals learn best practices in Big Data management from hands-on experts. The panel ...
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125855

NSF Announces Interagency Progress on Administration's Big Data

(author unknown) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:50:22 +0000

The eight projects announced today run the gamut of scientific techniques for big data management, new data analytic approaches, and e-science collaboration ...
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id...WT...

Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS ...

(author unknown) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:45:39 +0000

The data-management plan to be submitted with a proposal must be no longer ... In preparing their data-management plans, PIs should address all five of the ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12614/nsf12614.htm

Operations Management of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution ...

(author unknown) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:52:48 +0000

Data Management: The Awardee will manage expedition data supporting IODP activities and provide long-term archival access to data and support of ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12612/nsf12612.htm

OCI - Funding - Computational and Data driven Materials Research

(author unknown) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:03:13 +0000

Among the significant changes are revisions to the requirements regarding cost sharing and data management. Detailed information about these changes is ...
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504827...

NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows ...

(author unknown) — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:45:38 +0000

Data Management Plan: The PAPPG contains a clarification of NSF's long standing ... for data management and sharing of the products of research, or assert the ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12601/nsf12601.pdf

Coastal SEES - National Science Foundation

(author unknown) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:23:12 +0000

relegated to the Data Management Plan), plans for education and workforce development, and a project timeline. A Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan is Required.
nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12594/nsf12594.pdf

Title Dear Colleague Letter Cyber Infrastructure Framework for the ...

(author unknown) — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:19:38 +0000

... of computational methods and data mining and management systems to enable scientific discovery and engineering innovationread at2httpwwwnsfgovmpscdseThe ...
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12103/nsf12103.txt

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - DataONE ...

(author unknown) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:24:00 +0000

DataONE enables universal access to data and also facilitates researchers in fulfilling their need for data management and in providing secure and permanent ...
nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124893