IASSIST 2013 Conference SIGDC Meeting Minutes

[Mooney, Hailey]

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IASSIST SIGDC Annual Meeting Minutes

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:00-17:00, GESIS Building, Cologne, Germany

 

Present: Dave Haans, Michelle Hudson, Kate McNeill, Hailey Mooney, Elizabeth Moss, Ron Nakao, Mary Vardigan, Joachim Wackerow, Ryan Womack, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen

 

Review of SIGDC charter and review of activities during the past year

• IASSIST SIGDC email listserv for current awareness and discussion
• Updated our list of data citation resources
• Poked Zotero to add “dataset” (unfortunately, not in the latest update)
• Local distribution of the Quick Guide to Data Citation after its release at IASSIST 2012
• Organized panel of invited speakers at this conference: “Data Citations: Linking Literature to Data and Measuring Impact”

 

Brainstorming session to focus goals for the upcoming year raised these issues/ideas:

• Need for more contact/follow-up with Zotero

• IASSIST Quarterly special issue for Sue Dodd
• Rethink scope and presence of our resources page
  • What is our purpose, especially in light of other very comprehensive resources like the CODATA Bibliography?
  • IASSIST can better focus on the social science perspective
  • We should add the date last updated and a defined scope statement
  • It should be set up so that others can add to it more easily
  • It should include data journals and/or policy statements in journals
• Update the Wikipedia entry on data citations
• Engage in outreach to research centers, such as sending Research Data Centers the SIGDC-authored Quick Guide to Data Citation
• Follow up and keep up with outreach to style manuals
• Focus on more training/instruction materials, such as training resources that can be easily repurposed by others. For example, module on how to cite data in a C.V., an instructional video, explain how citation is affected by the data context (e.g., primary vs. secondary data)
• All of these ideas fit into three main themes for the group to potentially work on:
  • Education and Training
  • Information Clearinghouse
  • Advocacy

 

New chair or co-chairs

• The terms for Hailey Mooney and Elizabeth Moss have ended. We are happy to help a new person(s) take on the chair or co-chair role. No one stepped forward at the meeting. We will need to solicit a new chair after the conference.