Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers

The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be jointly held with the 52nd annual conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA-ACACC) in Montréal, Québec, Canada from May 28-June 1, 2018.

With the theme “Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers,” these organizations are welcoming submissions that tell diverse stories about the IASSIST and ACMLA-ACACC communities’ experiences, offer suggestions of how they can implement or adapt lessons for their own work, and have wide-reaching appeal to attendees.

The deadline for submission is 20 November.

Call for presentations

Conference Topics

Possible topics for this conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):

– Anonymization, privacy, confidentiality
– Apps & APIs
– Cartographic resources: Managing and integrating materials
– Challenges of preservation of non-digital data and oral histories
– Data curation
– Data for social justice
– Data management
– Data policies
– Data reference services
– Data sharing
– Data sources
– Data visualization
– DDI uses and updates
– Digital humanities
– Digitization and digital preservation
– Establishing national data surveys or offices
– Ethics and data

…