The Value of Travel: IASSIST Version

Lynda M. Kellam

December 3, 2014

IASSIST strives to:

● Foster and promote a network of

excellence for data service

delivery

● Advance infrastructure in the

social sciences

● Provide opportunities for collegial

exchange of sound professional

practices

IASSIST’s 35th

Annual Conference

(2009)

Host: Finnish Social

Science Data Archive

Theme: Mobile Data &

the Life Cycle

Location: Tampere,

Finland

Outside at 9:00 pm

Outside at 11:00 pm

IASSIST’s 37th Annual

Conference (2011)

Host: Simon Fraser

University & University of

British Columbia

Theme: Data Science

Professionals: A Global

Community of Sharing

Location: Vancouver,

Canada

IASSIST’s 39th Annual Conference

(2013)

Host: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for

the Social Sciences

Theme: Data Innovation: Increasing

Accessibility, Visibility and

Sustainability

Location: Cologne, Germany

IASSIST’s 40th Annual

Conference (2014)

Host: Ryerson Univ.,

Univ. of Toronto, York

Univ.

Theme: Aligning Data

and Research

Infrastructure

Location: Toronto,

Canada

Funding:

● University Libraries (primarily

registration)

● International Travel Fund from

International Program Office

(for Tampere and Cologne)

● Personal funds

Where to next?

IASSIST’s 41st Annual Conference (2015)

Host: Minnesota Population Center at the

Univ. of Minnesota

Theme: Bridging the Data Divide

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota