Swedish National Data Service (SND) will participate in several events during the IASSIST conference. For more detailed information, see the following links:

DASISH: Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Science and the Humanities

DDI Alliance Expert Meeting

IFDO General Assembly Meeting

IFDO: Institutional Data Policies in 40+ Countries

(SERSCIDA) Making New Connections: Developing Data Services in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia

Integrated Efforts: Discovery, Distribution and Preservation

Data Longevity: Tools, Processes, Practical Experiences

Poster session: DDI Class Library for .NET

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation in different disciplines.

During a week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, participants share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies. Every summer, the institute brings together faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from industry and government sectors.

Find out more about the DHSI courses

Registration fees:

Early Registration (1 April 2013)| Student: $500.00
Early Registration (1 April 2013)| Non-Student: $950.00

Student: $600.00
Non-Student: $1250.00

The 2013 Edition of the Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology aims to provide introductory and advanced courses in medical statistics and epidemiology, and their application in etiology research and public health.

Courses last one week (except for Stata courses, held on Sunday, which last one day). Students can attend for a day, one or two weeks. Both introductory and more advanced one-day courses on Stata will be offered. All courses offered during the regular course week will be using Stata.

Teachers come from Harvard University and several European institutions, like Karolinska Institutet, Bocconi University and University of Milano-Bicocca. Funding is provided by Bocconi University and Stata. Limited student tuition scholarships are available.

Deadline for early registration is 31 March 2013.

As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science will become more vital to humanists. More fully integrating data curation into digital research involves fluency with topics such as disciplinary research cultures, publication, information sharing, and reward practices, descriptive standards, metadata formats, and the technical characteristics of digital data.

The three-day workshop will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the digital humanities. Learning will be largely case-based, supplemented by short lectures, guest presentations, and practical exercises.

Participants will learn how to:

• Model humanities data for sustainable computational research
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to their data
• Evaluate tools and systems for working with data from a curatorial perspective
• Plan and implement data management during all phases of a project's lifecycle
• Leverage data curation skills to improve scholarly publications, grant applications, and promotion dossiers
• Understand and stay current with the landscape of data curation research

The Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshops are aimed at humanities researchers as well as librarians, archivists, other information professionals, and advanced graduate students.

Limited funding will be available to offset the cost of attending the institute and will be awarded based on need. Up to three people from a single institution may apply. The Institute will be limited to 20 participants.

To apply, please complete the application form by February 15, 2013.

DHOXSS delegates will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the humanities.

The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories.The University of Prince Edward Island, and DiscoveryGarden

2013 year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata.

he fifth Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from the 15th to the 19th of July, 2013. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploscad 5, 1000 Ljubljana (http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/English/Office_IC/).

More information about Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana.

Please see details of Hotels in Ljubljana.

Here are the details of the accepted session proposals.

The call for papers has been issued and the deadline for submitting a paper is January 13, 2013. Click here to submit a paper.

Paper proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive applications of survey research. We particularly welcome submissions in the following areas:

•  Sampling and sample design
•  Web surveys
•  Unit Nonresponse and attrition
•  Item nonresponse
•  Weighting and imputation
•  Question testing and piloting
•  Survey mode
•  Data linkage
•  Collection and analysis of biological data
•  Measurement error
•  Interviewer effects
•  Election polling and public opinion
•  Survey analysis techniques
•  Methods for cross-national data collection and analysis
•  Paradata and fieldwork
•  Longitudinal surveys
•  Data archiving
•  Substantive applications

The ESRA prize for the best paper submitted by an early-career researcher

Researchers within five years of the completion of their doctorate, or within five years of starting a career in survey research, will be eligible to enter their paper for the ESRA Early-Career Researcher prize. The winning paper will be awarded a prize of 500 Euros. More information about the Early-Career Researcher award will be announced on the conference website in due course.

Digital Humanities is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Urban Archaeology and “Correct” documentation – Documenting the Data

Documentation of archaeological and cultural heritage sites is at the heart of the archaeological process and an important component in cultural heritage research and presentation. It is an essential step without which interpretation and analysis are not possible. It is what makes archaeology and cultural heritage “scientific”.

Maybe we are storytellers. If so, the type of story we tell is heavily influenced by our way of collecting and organising our archaeological data.

But can we speak about CORRECT documentation or should we talk only about usable and non-usable documentation?

The contemporary field is plagued by the involvement of operators each with their own new tools. They propose solutions and suggest methods but are often in blissful ignorance of the past investigations of the item, site or cultural heritage they are working on. New technology, however, has to support our research. Its use still depends on what we want to know next (our research). The best solution is to have an underpinning of basic documentation that allows any new researcher to easily access the core record. Then they can then enrich the documentation with the results of their new method, analysis and ideas.

It may be possible to build the ultimate recording system, but the information we feed it is always potentially unreliable. How do we know when our record is good – has integrity? What indicates that it might be bad – lacking integrity?

Models are there to be used, not believed. Documentation is always for a certain purpose and depending on that purpose, a set of documentation may be regarded as good or bad, as “fit for purpose”. There will never be absolute “true”, “correct” or “right” documentation.

An abstract model of documentation should consist of the attributes we record of the real world traits that we observe. The set of attributes that we choose to record (out of the infinite set of possibilities) are the ones that our current state of knowledge and our research aims (and therefore designs) suggest will be the most useful to our current research aims/agenda. If we want to reuse data beyond the current research project/agenda then we must be very explicit about why, how and what we record. This is the so called “para” data and goes beyond meta data to include the “how” and “why” of data capture.

Call for papers: February 18 - June 28

Announcement of presenters: July 12