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		<title>IASSIST Quarterly 32 available on-line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 32 2008 contains a collection of the 1, 2, 3, and 4 issues into a single issue for 2008. 
Nikos Askitas is the head of the International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany (IZA). At the 2008 IASSIST conference he presented what is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=178</link>
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		<title>US and UK governments embrace &#8216;open data&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Open Government Directive, released on December 8, 2009, instructs all federal agencies to provide high-value information to the public online in open, accessible, machine-readable formats. This adds to the momentum already in place at Data.gov to &#8220;increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=173</link>
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		<title>Chuck Humphrey elected Chair of DDI Expert Committee, Mari Kleemola new Vice Chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the DDI Directions Newsletter:
&#8220;The DDI Alliance is pleased to announce that Chuck Humphrey (Chair), University of Alberta, and Mari Kleemola (Vice Chair), Finnish Social Science Data Archive, have been elected to lead the DDI Expert Committee, beginning January 1, 2010.  Chuck has been the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=168</link>
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		<title>Diane Geraci receives the 2009 Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative was presented to Diane Geraci, Associate Director for Information Resources at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.  Diane is a long time IASSIST supporter and former Admin Committee member.
Congratulations, Diane!
At the same ceremony, friends of IASSIST Merrill Shanks and Steven Ruggles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Nancy McGovern Named SAA Fellow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IASSIST member Nancy McGovern was recently inducted as a Fellow by the Society of American Archivists at its August meeting in Austin, Texas.  SAA Fellow is an honor that recognizes outstanding contributions to the archival profession.
Nancy has been Digital Preservation Officer (DPO) at ICPSR since 2006 and brought a substantial record of accomplishment to her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Open Data Fellowships at University of Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students with research interests in scientific data management, sharing  and reuse have a unique opportunity to participate in the Open Data  fellowship program. Open Data is an Integrative Graduate Education and  Research Traineeship (IGERT) sponsored by NSF. Open Data fellows engage  in a vibrant set of research activities at the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Data Visualization Without Computers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vintage Infographics From the 1930s, Flowing Data (Sept. 11, 2009). Some examples from Willard Cope Brinton&#8217;s 1939 book Graphic Presentation.
- jim
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		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=151</link>
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		<title>ICPSR&#8217;s Myron Gutmann to head NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U-M&#8217;s Gutmann to head NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, University of Michigan News Service, July 27, 2009.

Gutmann, who specializes in historical demography and population-environment relationships, currently directs the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR). He begins his NSF position Nov. 2.
- Jim Jacobs
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		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=148</link>
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		<title>After the hype: Behind the Scenes of the Wolfram Alpha Search Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of hype when the new search engine WolframAlpha was launched earlier this year.  An article in the current issue of Technology Review does a better job of explaining how it works and how it fits in with other search engines. It notes that the numeric information it uses is &#8220;curated&#8221; by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Historical data analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this week&#8217;s Fifth Wave cartoon:
http://www.gocomics.com/thefifthwave/2009/06/21
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		<link>http://iassistblog.org/?p=139</link>
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