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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.

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From iBlog

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

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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Announcing the Spring 2026 Presentations on Qualitative Data Analysis

By IASSIST Professional Development Committee on March 5, 2026

The Qualitative Social Science and Humanities Data Interest Group (QSSHDIG) is pleased to announce the return of our speaker series on the practice of qualitative data analysis. This semester we’re pleased to welcome presenters who will share their experiences and insight into doing qualitative work with a variety of data types and methods. The series aims to bring together qualitative researchers across disciplines to see the variety of approaches to working with qualitative data, a process that is often invisible to the reader of published researchers and a challenge for new researchers to learn.

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Editors' notes: Perspectives on data: Management, access, and education across institutions

By IQ Editors on December 19, 2025

Dear IASSISTers, Welcome to IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 49 No. 4 . IQ’s Editors and Editorial Board are continuously working on developingpolicies toprovide a clear, consistent, and equitable experience for authors, reviewers, and readers. Authors who are considering submitting a manuscript are encouraged to download and read over the author template if they haven’t published with us recently. One recent update is a request that as part of the review process, authors include a separate letter, apart from their manuscript, explaining how the reviewers’ commentswere addressed.

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Akwaaba to Data: My Memoir of the IASSIST Africa Conference in Ghana

By Azeez ADEOYE on November 28, 2025

The IASSIST Regional Conference held in Ghana from 22nd to 24th October 2025 was a journey I had long awaited, one that had been brewing in anticipation since May 2024, when my abstract was first approved. The months leading up to the conference were filled with preparation: research refinement, logistics planning, emotional readiness, and countless mental rehearsals. I had initially planned to travel by road, driven by my love for adventure and the idea of passing through three countries (Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana) before reaching my destination.

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