The Origins and Early Years of IASSIST

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The Origins and Early Years of IASSIST

A Practical Approach to Data Citation: The Special Interest Group on Data Citation and Development of the Quick Guide to Data Citation

“…As Margaret O'Neill Adams reports, the Classification Action Group was a strong component of the early IASSIST organization and Sue Dodd's Working Manual for Cataloging Machine-Readable Data Files and later book, Cataloging Machine-Readable Data Files: An Interpretive Manual, were a crowning achievement for the organization (Adams, 2006) SIGDC authored the Quick Guide to Data Citation outcome and extension of cataloging and classification for data files, providing for identification and access via bibliographic references was an essential component of the Classification Action Group's activities. Dodd published a concise set of guidelines for the citation of data in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science in her capacity as chairperson of the IASSIST U.S.…”

Social Science Data Files and Bibliographic Control: Contributions Sue A. Dodd

“…It is important to remember that until the work carried out by Dodd and others there were no widely known and systematically organized catalogs, inventories, or bibliographies of data files extant in the U.S. Some work had been discussed through the International Social Science Council (ISSC), largely due to the efforts of Stein Rokkan, and in the U.S. through the Council of Social Science Data Archives (Adams 2006). A publication calling for bibliographic conventions and standards was written by David Nasatir under contract to UNESCO to study "overcoming the barriers to realizing the fullest utilization of machine-readable social science data. "…”