IASSIST Web Action Team

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IASSIST Web Action Team

• The VOLUNTEERS

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Pam BaxterCornell Institute for Social and
Economic Research

• Updated membership pages of website.
• Working with Suzette Giles, Membership Chair, to
  improve content, with an eye to making IASSIST
  membership more attractive.

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Paul BernOffice of Population Research,
Princeton University

• Provided early vision for the new website by
  drafting a proposed site map for the teams
  loosely defined ideas.
• Paul is developing an on-line searchable database
  for the publications section, including IQ
  articles and conference papers.

Buster
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Sandra CannonEconomic Information Management,
Federal Reserve Board

• San polled IASSIST members over the email list
  for suggestions for important web links.
• She then annotated and arranged the new external
  links section by category.

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Lu ChouData and Program Library
ServiceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

• Seen here in Quebec City with her husband, Lu
  trolled through disparate websites collecting
  conference paper citations which she input to a
  database for online searching.

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Repke DeVriesDigital Library CoordinationNationa
l Library of the Netherlands

• Repke, along with IQ Editor Karsten Rasmussen,
  provided early inspiration for the web team
  through the findings of their IASSIST membership
  poll (presented at last years Amsterdam
  conference).

He also helped provide solutions for presenting
the IQ over the Web.
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Ann GreenSocial Science Research Services, Yale
University

• As IASSIST President, Ann paid close attention to
  the list discussions and offered numerous
  sensible suggestions for web page creators. She
  also re-wrote the text for the About IASSIST page.

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Walter GiesbrechtYork University, Toronto

• Walter - seen here with CAPDU buddies (far
  right), designed the style of the website and set
  up a test site.
• He also worked tirelessly with individual page
  authors and files to make sure everything fit
  together cohesively.

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Charles HumphreyData Library, University of
Alberta

• Chuck (right) has been the IASSIST web-master
  from the beginning. So not only has he given us
  free reign to completely change everything (!)
  but he will continue to be the keeper of the
  files, and provide server space for our domain
  name.

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Ron JantzScholarly Communication Center, Rutgers
University

• Set up the first prototype for the How-tos in
  the Tools Training section. Ron has set library
  students to work collecting links to Resource
  Guides for datasets and categorising them in a
  database for searching and browsing.

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Stuart MacdonaldEdinburgh University Data Library

• Stuart created the Tables of Contents web pages
  for the IQ, with input from the Publications
  Committee. He also worked with the PDF versions
  created by Walter Piovesan to create
  article-level files to view.
• At the nth hour, Stuart drafted an interactive
  form for feedback from members and others.

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Ron NakaoSocial Sciences Data Services, Stanford
University

• Ron has been interested in developing some sort
  of knowledge base by for IASSIST members. This
  is likely to emerge as a set of job postings and
  conference listings from the discussion list as
  part of the Tools Training section.
  Suggestions, as always, are welcomed.

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Carol PerryUniversity of Guelph Library

• Carol designed several logos for the groups
  consideration, eventually settling on a revised
  version of the 1999 Toronto conference logo. She
  also designed the home page, which provided
  inspiration to the group to fill in the rest of
  the site!

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Robin RiceEdinburgh University Data Library

• As co-ordinator of the group, Robin didnt
  actually contribute any web pages at all!
• She set up the Yahoo egroup site, to facilitate
  tracking of discussions and work.
• Kept the ball rolling through on- and off-list
  discussion.

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And so, without further ado ...

• http//www.iassistdata.org/
• 13 June, 2002