II.3: Collaboration and Alliances

Collaborations and Strategic Alliances with Related Organizations

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In its efforts to expand its influence, IASSIST would best leverage its resources by working in partnership with other organizations committed to the collection, dissemination, and preservation of data. It is vital that we collaborate and benefit from each other’s work as we tackle some of the difficult issues that we will be facing in the next five years, such as providing access to an increasingly complex world of data, privacy and confidentiality, metadata standards, and preservation. Collaboration activities could include: § Seek opportunities through which IASSIST members could participate in other organizations, and vice versa, to exchange information on work practices and important issues (this might include and exchange of conference speakers); § The Education Committee could lead efforts to partner with related organizations in a variety of regions to run small workshops and/or tack on a day to their conferences and meetings; § Undertake joint advocacy efforts on topics of mutual interest under the guidance and according to the priority of the Administrative Committee. Following are selected areas related to the work of IASSIST in which we could seek collaboration: scientific data, geographic information systems, social science research, social science computing and informatics, digital libraries, qualitative data, government statistics, and professional associations of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals.

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