Editors' notes: Assessing needs and developing solutions.

The article "Editors' notes: Assessing needs and developing solutions" is from the IASSIST Quarterly journal. It discusses various topics related to assessing needs and developing solutions in the field of data management. The article highlights papers that introduce tools developed by different institutions to address operational challenges. These tools include a self-assessment checklist for data repositories, a method to identify needs and challenges faced by members of the World Data System and Canadian CoreTrustSeal Pilot, national surveys to gauge institutions' readiness for developing research data management strategies, and a controlled vocabulary for mapping social sciences survey variables. Additionally, the article describes a project that digitized a collection of old Yoruba newspapers in Nigeria to preserve their historical value. [Extracted from the article]