Toronto welcomes you to the 40th anniversary conference of IASSIST — the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology — to take place on June 3-6, 2014. The “official” hashtag is #iassist40 — spread the word!

This year’s conference theme — “Aligning data and research infrastructure” — touches upon the international and interdisciplinary requirements of aligning data and research infrastructure. The 2013 OECD Global Science Forum report on New Data for Understanding the Human Condition identifies key challenges to international data collaboration that beg for new solutions. Among these challenges is the mounting pressure for new forms of social science data. In today’s abundance of personal data, new methods are being sought to combine traditional social science data, such as administrative, survey, and census data, with new forms of personal data, including social networking, biomarkers or transaction data, or with data from other domains. Similar challenges have been identified in the scientific data realm and the need for open data, archiving, and long term curation infrastructures to allow replication and/or reuse are challenges posed by funders in all areas. What alignments are needed between data and research infrastructure to enable these possibilities?

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