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Wednesday 20th May 1998
8:00	Registration at William Harkness Hall (WLH)
9:00	Sudler Auditorium, WLH Opening of the Conference. Peter Burnhill, IASSIST Grant Blank, SSCA
9:15	Sudler Auditorium, WLH Plenary Speaker: Stephen E. Fienberg. Towards Multiple-Media Survey and Census Data Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
10:15	Break
10:30	Sudler Auditorium, WLH Panel 1: Confidentiality, Security, and Access to Data. Chair: Patrick Collins Stephen Fienberg; Vigdis Kvalheim, Christopher Dunn
	Room WLH Panel 2: Issues and Problems Confronting Decentralized University Computing Units and Their Relationship with Central Computing Organizations. Chair: Tom Phelan Nancy McDermott; Tom Phelan; Jonathan Rapkin and Karl Ho; George Yates
	Room WLH Panel 3: Social Science Software and Services: Research & Development Issues for the Entrepreneur. Chair: Eric Lang Eric Lang; Al Anderson; Edward Brent; James Gilden
12:00	Lunch at Commons
1:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 1A: Designing For Intelligent Data Access Chair: Wendy Treadwell	1. Cavan Capps A Proposal for a Virtual Digital Data Library services
		2. Julia Chruszcz The Role of the Web in the Provision of National Data and Information Services: The MIDAS Experience
		3. Peter Mutschke, et al Gesine: Integrated Retrieval on Heterogeneous Social Science Databases Via the World Wide Web
		4. Micah Altman The Virtual Data Center Development Project
1:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 1B: Impact of Technology on Privacy and Community Chair: Sarah Cox	1. Dana R. Fisher On Cultural Lags and Communications Technology
		2. Jean Stratford and Juri Stratford Data Protection and Privacy in the United States and Europe
		3. Thomas Brown Data Protection in the United States
		4. Pat Hildebrand Web Access to the Data Warehouse: Is It Worth It?
1:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 1C: Establishing and Managing Data Resource Centers. Chair: Ann Gray	1. Ronald C. Jantz and Linda Langschied A Digital Archive for New Jersey Environmental Information
		2. Albert Bots Project EconData: Dutch Data Service for Economic Data
		3. Paul Rouse It's Science Jim ...But Not As We Know It!
3:00	Break
3:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 2A: Data access systems and metadata structures. Chair: Karsten Rasmussen	1. Ernie Boyko Data Dissemination in an Electronic World: The Essential Role of Metadata
		2. Daniel Gillman Implementing a Statistical Metadata Repository at the U.S. Census Bureau
		3. Jostein Ryssevik Next Generation Tools for Data Dissemination - The Example of NESSTAR
3:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 2B: Technology in the classroom. Chair: Chuck Humphrey.	1. Paula Lackie A Dialogue Between Technical Support Staff and Social Science Faculty: Implementing Effective Use of Technologies at Carleton College
		2. Jean Shackelford and Dot S. Thompson Teaching Strategy and Assignment Design: Assessing Quality and Validity of Information Via the Web
		3. Edward Brent Teaching with Technology: Lessons Learned from the First 2,000 Students
3:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 2C: Digital Libraries and User Support. Chair: Ilona Einowski	1. Sheila Anderson, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijve The History Data Service - Using Technology to Enhance Access
		2. Rich Clark On-line technology for enhanced secondary analysis of public opinion survey data
		3. Mark A. Carrozza & Steven R. Howe Global Access to Data Resources: Where's the Metadata?
5:30	Reception at Beinicke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Welcome: Philip Long, Director of Academic Computing Services, Yale University
Thursday 21st May 1998
8:00	Registration at William Harkness Hall (WLH)
9:00	Room WLH Concurrent session 3A: Locating and linking diverse information resources. Chair: Elizabeth Stephenson	1. Peter Burnhill Metadata for datasets as digital information objects of desire
		2. Sheila Anderson Interoperability - just more jargon or a whole new world for the Arts and Humanities?
		3. Repke De Vries Can library and data archive meet in active support of research in the social sciences? The case of ILSES
9:00	Room WLH Concurrent session 3B: Impact of Technology on Libraries. Chair: Tess Trost	1. Molly Petrick and Kathryn Murrell Meeting the Needs of Academic Librarians in the Distribution of Electronic Social Science Data
		2. Daniel Tsang The California Digital Library: Implications for Data Files Collections
		3. Richard Boily Data Liberation, Bridges to Cross
9:00	Room WLH Concurrent session 3C: Searching the Web: General strategies and Special Topics Chair: Walter Piovesan	1. Gregory Haley Relational Processes in a Hierarchical World: The WWW as an Impediment to Information Acquisition
		2. Dusan Soltes Global Access and Local Support to the Processes of European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe through Global Networking
		3. Frederic Gey Searching Commodity Classification Trade Data with Ordinary Language
		4. Tom Parris Sustainable Development Indicators Databank
10:15	Break
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 4A: Applying Metadata Standards. Chair: Grant Blank	1. Elaine Prentice-Lane Using HTML to Document a Panel Survey
		2. William Bradley The Heart Health in Canada CD-ROM; Data as Program - Using Standardized Metadata to Link Research, Policy and Action
		3. Repke de Vries, presenter, Marion Wittenberg, author The Dutch Data Documentation Initiative
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 4B: Designing and Delivering Data on the Web. Part One. Chair: Jim Jacobs	1. Thomas Piazza A New System for Web-based Documentation, Analysis, and Distribution of Survey Data
		2. Eric Lang Social Science Data Analysis over the Internet: Design and Development Issues
		3. Patrick Yott Delivering Data to Undergraduate Classes
		4. Bo Wandschneider Establishing a Data Resource Centre
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 4C: Getting Quality in Qualitative Data Analysis. Chair: Wendy Wright	1. Wendy Wright From Scissors to Pentiums: Where We have been and Where We are Going in Qualitative Data Analysis
		2. Raymond Maietta Qualitative Data Analysis Software as a Tool Rather than Dictator of Process
		3. Sharlene Hesse-Biber The Use of Computer-Assisted Software Programs in Anaylzing Qualitative Data: Methodological Implications
		4. Eben Weitzman Issues in Principled Choice of Qualitative Data Analysis Software
12:00	Commons. Lunch Speaker: Stacy Horn People are People -- Even online where no one can see them. Founder of ECHO, the virtual salon of New York; author of Cyberville
1:30 - 3:15	Social Science Library, 140 Prospect St. Poster Sessions and Demonstrations
4:30	Holiday Inn, 30 Whalley Avenue Buses leave the Holiday Inn for a 3-hour Cruise on the Connecticut River
Late Evening	Holiday Inn Conference Room Turkey Action Group
Friday 22nd May 1998
8:00	Registration at William Harkness Hall (WLH)
9:00	Sudler Auditorium Plenary Panel: Archiving Data from Government-Supported Research: Policies, Practices, Possibilities Jordan Leiter, National Institute of Justice; William Bainbridge, National Science Foundation; Carl Schmitt, National Center for Education Statistics Chair: Joel Garner, Joint Centers for Justice Studies, Inc. Discussant: Bridget Winstanley, ESRC Data Archive, University of Essex
10:15	Break
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 5A: Designing and Delivering Data on the Web, Part Two. Chair: Manfred Kuechler	1. James Harris CASWEB: A Web-based interface to UK Census area statistics
		2. Brian Kroeker Taking Web-Based Data Services to the Classroom and Beyond: The ISLAND Model
		3. Steve Ruggles and Matt Sobek Global Access to the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: An Update
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 5B: Building and Preserving Digital Archives Chair: Margaret Adams	1. Marc Maynard Preservation of Electronic Records: The Roper Center Experience, 1946-1996
		2. Lars Kristian Larsen and Lise Qwist Nielsen Archives Choice between Museum and Data Library -- The Danish National Archives Adaption to the Information Technology Progress in Denmark
		3. Mark Conrad Email as Record: Challenges to traditional Archival and Records Management of Electronic Records
10:30	Room WLH Concurrent session 5C:Analysis of Large Data Sets Chair: Tom Piazza	1. Albert F. Anderson & Paul H. Anderson Applying Parallel Processing to Social Science Data: Pushing the Limits
		2. Derek Bond Dynamic Exploratory Data Analysis: The Users Requirements
		3. Cavan Capps The Data FERRET component of the Census DADS Effort
12:00	Working Lunch in WLH
1:00 - 2:00	IASSIST General Assembly, Sudler Auditorium SSCA Business Meeting, WLH Room
2:00 - 3:00	Sudler Auditorium Closing Panel Discussion: Where do we want to go tomorrow? IASSIST and SSCA Discussants, Grant Blank, Peter Burnhill, Judith Rowe, Bruce Tonn

A block of rooms has been set aside in Loew's Hotel in New York City for the weekend of Friday 5/22 - Monday 5/25 for those interested. There will be a bus leaving New Haven for NYC at 4:00 Friday afternoon. The bus fee is $20 and it is non-refundable. You are responsible for reserving the hotel rooms on your own. The hotel information is as follows:

Loews New York

569 Lexington Ave. at 51st St.

Singles and doubles: $179.00

Phone: (800) 836-6471

Fax: (212) 752-3817

Deadline: April 22, 1998 at 5:00 pm EST

For any further questions about this, contact Gregory Haley at greg@columbia.edu

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