The new issue of the IASSIST Quarterly is now available on the web. This is the volume 34 (number 2, 2010).
http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/34/2
The
layout has changed. We hope you’ll enjoy the new style presented. It
seems to be a more modern format and more suited for the PDF
presentation on the web. Walter Piovesan – our publication officer – had
a biking accident. To show that nothing is so bad that it is not good
for something Walter used his recovery time to redesign the IQ.
Furthermore, Walter is the person in charge of the upcoming 2011 IASSIST
conference, so he is a busy guy. And I’m happy to say that Walter
should be fit for the conference.
This issue of the IQ features the following papers:
Rein
Murakas and Andu Rämmer from the Estonian Social Science Data Archive
(ESSDA) at the University of Tartu describe in their paper "Social
Science Data Archiving and Needs of the Public Sector: the Case of
Estonia" how the archive had a historical background in the empirical
research of the Soviet Union.
From
the historical background we move to web 2.0 in a paper by Angela
Hariche, Estelle Loiseau and Philippa Lysaght on "Wikiprogress and
Wikigender: a way forward for online collaboration". The authors are
working at the OECD and the paper's statement is that "collaborative
platforms such as wikis along with advances in data visualisation are a
way forward for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data
across countries and societies”.
The
third paper addresses an issue of central importance for most data
archives. The question concerns balancing data confidentiality and the
legitimate requirements of data users. This is a key problem of the
Secure Data Service (SDS) at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
The paper "Secure Data Service: an improved access to disclosive data"
by Reza Afkhami, Melanie Wright, and Mus Ahmet shows how the SDS will
allow researchers remote access to secure servers at the UK Data
Archive.
The
last article has the title "A user-driven and flexible procedure for
data linking". The authors are Cees van der Eijk and Eliyahu V. Sapir
from the Methods and Data Institute at the University of Nottingham. The
data linking relates to research combining several different datasets.
The implementation is developed for the PIREDEU project in comparative
electoral research. The authors are combining traditional survey data
with data from party manifestos and state-level data.
Articles
for the IQ are always very welcome. They can be papers from IASSIST or
other conferences, from local presentations or papers directly written
for the IQ.
Notice
that chairing a conference session with the purpose of aggregating and
integrating papers for a special issue IQ is much appreciated as the
information reaches many more people than the session participants and
will be readily available on the IASSIST website.
Authors are very welcome to take a look at the description for layout and sending papers to the IQ:
http://iassistdata.org/iq/instructions-authors
Authors
can also contact me via e-mail: kbr @ sam.sdu.dk. Should you be
interested in compiling a special issue for the IQ as guest editor or
editors I will also be delighted to hear from you.
Karsten Boye Rasmussen, editor
