IASSIST

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Conferences

The annual conference provides data professionals a variety of opportunities to participate in discussions about research data and data support activities. In addition there are regional IASSIST workshops or IASSIST sponsored events.

IASSIST Quarterly

The IQ represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services.

Jobs Repository

The IASSIST Jobs Repository is a record of job descriptions posted to the members’ email list from 2005 to the present, providing a communal resource for employers and job-hunters.

Webinars

Community webinars organized by the IASSIST Professional Development Committee.

Discussion list

Our professional communication and news channel. An important source of support for members to query other data professionals.

Membership

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IASSIST Store

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From iBlog

iBlog is IASSIST’s own blog. Entries on various topics are written by our members.

Championing Public Data: Data Professionals in Civic Life

By Lynda Kellam on June 10, 2026

The following text is from Lynda Kellam’s opening keynote for the 2026 IASSIST conference on June 2, 2026. Lynda Kellam’s opening keynote Good morning, everyone. It is a genuine pleasure to be with you today as your opening keynote speaker. I know that virtual conferences are challenging. I miss the hallway conversations with every ounce of my extroverted being. Recently, I attended another virtual conference where the opening keynote asked people to stay as present as possible, and I ask that of you now.

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Guest editors' note: IASSIST Quarterly Special Issue

By Hilary Bussell, Cheryl Thompson, Maureen Haaker & Michael Beckstrand on March 31, 2026

Dear IASSISTers, Qualitative data and their collections are valuable treasures for re-use, re-analysis, and training. However, there is a tension inherent in qualitative data sharing between the desire for transparency and the complex ethical, methodological, and labor-intensive realities of sharing non-numeric materials. As the push for Open Science accelerates, researchers are increasingly required to navigate the high standards set by the FAIR, CARE, and TRUST principles. In response to data sharing expectations, qualitative researchers have expressed concerns about the ethical challenges, methodological concerns, and labor involved in making their data and materials publicly available.

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Editors' notes: Aligning qualitative data services with open science and access

By IQ Editors on March 31, 2026

Dear IASSISTers, Welcome to IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 50 No. 1 . It is our great pleasure to present the first issue of the 50th volume of IQ. The journal has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1977, when it served as a newsletter reporting on the activities of IASSIST action groups. Over the years IQ has been through several format changes, transferred from a print format to a fully online journal in 2008, and became a full-fledged open access journal, switching to the Open Journal System in 2017.

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DDI Recognized as an ISO Standard

By Jared Lyle on March 25, 2026

I’m pleased to announce that the DDI Alliance suite of products is now codified by an ISO standard. On 6 March 2026, the International Organization for Standardization released ISO/PAS 25955 , formally recognizing the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) within the ISO standards framework. This milestone reflects many years of collaborative work by the international DDI community to support consistent documentation and interoperability of research and statistical data. The IASSIST community has played an especially important role in the development, implementation, and advancement of DDI metadata standards from their earliest stages.

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