The International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST) has shared a call for proposals for workshops, sessions, papers, posters, or other virtual presentations for their annual conference which will be held virtually on June 2-5, 2026. IASSIST is “an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.”
From the call for proposals:
IASSIST 2026 will feature ample semi-structured time, with attendee-selected themes for discussion and idea exchange, gathered at the start of the conference, as well as unstructured segments with breakout opportunities to capture the interstitial moments at these events. Social hours, trivia and participatory games will round out the experience to help build connections and invigorate our collective work.
We welcome submissions for the conference structured time: papers, presentations, panels, roundtables, and other novel virtual meeting formats that embrace our conference theme, Championing Data: Data Professionals at the Nexus.
We are seeking out information on the importance of data in our world, from its collection to its ethics and governance; from making sense of data to aiding others in doing the same; and modes and methods of protecting and championing data in an era of disruption and innovation.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Data rescue / data advocacy
- Data stories – data usage, digitization efforts, archival treasures
- Data literacy and training
- Data management
- Data discovery, access, and licensing
- Data consultation and librarianship
- Data ethics and governance
- Data security, restrictions, and actions
- Data documentation and metadata
- CARE / FAIR data principles
- Partnerships and collaboration
- Original data collection efforts
- Technology, platforms and tools for data collection, management, and analysis
- Large data and high performance computing
- Generative AI – training, ethics, licensing
The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, December 19, 2025.
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