III: Advocacy
Engage in Advocacy on Issues of Importance to IASSIST Other Information:
As an organization seeking to advance research and teaching infrastructure in the social sciences, IASSIST has a long history
of advocacy for enhancing and expanding access to data collections. Over the last thirty years, IASSIST members have played
a central role in creating the standards used to describe social science metadata, strengthening the networks (both electronic
and personal) that support this data, and lobbying for policies designed to ensure that public and private researchers have
access to the data necessary for furthering human understanding. As IASSIST enters its fourth decade, the organization and
the data community confront a range of political, social, and economic challenges that are shaping the nature of data-driven
research. IASSIST must continue to advocate for enhancing and expanding access to data collections through work on issues
of confidentiality, metadata standards, and data access.
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