List of Speakers and Conference Sessions
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Plenary Sessions
| P1: Data Futures: Perspectives from Statistical Agencies Wednesday, May 19 0900-1030 Place: Room V204, Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie-Mellon University Speakers:
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P2: Global Directions for Large National and International Survey Research Projects |
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Chair: Scott Bennett, Carleton University Speaker: Tom Smith, NORC |
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P3: The Impact of the Net on Data and Information Professionals |
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Chair: Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh Speaker: Barbara O'Keefe, Director, Media Union, University of Michigan |
Concurrent Sessions
| A:1 Models of Disseminating Data by Statistical Agencies Wednesday, May 19 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Ernie Boyko, Statistics Canada The Australian Data Dissemination Initiative: access to confidentialised unit record files for University teaching and research The Scientific Statistical Agency as an intermediate data facility in the Netherlands; Fifth wheel on the wagon or oil in the machine? Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics |
| A:2 GIS and Social Science Data Access Over the Net Wednesday, May 19 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: James Harris, University of Manchester Geographic Information Systems and Social Sciences Data: Over the Net Overcoming Barriers to the Use of the Census through Interactive Visualization Changing Boundaries: Gazetteers, Information Retrieval and Data Browsing Towards an Electronic Historical Atlas of Britain |
| A:3 Data in the Classroom: Instructional Uses of Data Wednesday, May 19 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Tess Trost, Texas Tech University Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing: a method of capturing sensitive information Combining Archive Data and Student-Created Variables in Data Analysis on the Web The Social and Organisational Life Data Archive |
| B:0 IASSIST at 25: Bridging the Past with the Future Wednesday, May 19 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Laine Ruus, University of Toronto IASSIST : Origins and Evolution as revealed in its archives and other materials Early IASSIST as recalled by its first president Social Research Infrastructure from a European Perspective |
| C:1 Qualitative Data Archives: Enriching Research Possibilities Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Sheila Anderson, UK Data Archive Text, sound and video-tape: the future of electronic qualitative data in the global network Qualitative and quantitative research strategies: towards a possible convergence? How qualitative data might be archived: from the perspective of the researcher |
| C:2 Collaborative Access to Data: New Approaches to Sharing Resources Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Anastassia Khouri, McGill University SHERLOCK - A Web Magnifying Glass for Microdata Files The Social Science Dream Machine: resource discovery, analysis and delivery on the Web Development of a health data archive for Bangladesh |
| C:3 Preserving Electronic Resources: Issues and User Patterns Shaping the Future Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Ann S. Gray The Authenticity and Integrity of the Electronic Records Statistics Supermarket: Where Do Canadian Social Scientists Shop? E-journals - What's the difference between a Scientist and a Social Scientist? RSS Working group on archiving data: achieving standards for documenting data for preservation and secondary analysis |
| D:1 Reflections on Thirty Years of Canadian National Election Surveys Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Bob MacDermid, York University Speakers:
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| D:2 The Changing Nature of Metadata: Exploring Approaches Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Ann Green, Yale University Metadata and Metainformation: old concepts and new challenges Maximizing the Search Potential of Social Science Codebooks Through the Application of the Codebook DTD Dutch Data Documentation Initiative: integrating documentation standards of a historical and social science archive If Variables Could Talk, What Should They Be Able to Say? An Intelligent Agent Approach to Metadata |
| D:3 Thematic Archives Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Ann Janda, Northwestern University Thematic Archiving: A Cross-national Collaborative Approach Public Opinion Archives at Queen's: Making Content Accessible A Didactic Session on the American Religion Data Archive |
| E:1 Data and the Digital Library Movement: Where to go from Here? Friday, May 21 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: JoAnn Dionne, University of Michigan The Digital Library Federation and Numeric Data Data and Digital Libraries: Developments in Canada Other speaker: Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh |
| E:2 Data Futures: Perspectives from the Researcher and Instructor Friday, May 21 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Richard Boily, Université du Québec à Rimouski Social Data in Canada, After Liberation Data Archives and Data Dissemination in Canadian Social Science: Instructor and Researcher Perspectives The Learning Society and the Informed Citizen - turning dreams into reality or a nightmare? The Availability of Victimization Data: The Impact on Canadian Research |
| E:3 Future Directions of Financial and Economic Databases Friday, May 21 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Walter Piovesan, Simon Fraser University Data as a New Commodity Global access to European statistical data. Re-intermediation in the context of a collaborative partnership Measuring the New Economy |
| F:1 The Role of Data Librarians and Data Archivists: Is There a Future? Friday, May 21 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Elizabeth Hamilton, University of New Brunswick Breaking Paper Barriers: The Future of Traditional Archives in the Global Network Data Librarians: Evolution or Extinction? The Open Source Revolution and the Future of Data Libraries Information Literacy Instruction with Electronic Data Files |
| F:2 Managing Access through Web Tools Friday, May 21 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Wendy Treadwell, University of Minnesota Tools, Templates and Training: Using the Web for Teaching in the Social Sciences at Harvard Data on the Web: Choices and Solutions The XML Files: Developing Data UFOs Safeguarding On-line Digital Data Archives |
| F:3 Emerging National Social Science Data Services Friday, May 21 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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Chair: Jeffrey Moon, Queen's University L'acces aux donnees en France/Accessing Data in France Social Network Paradigm and Electronic Data Access for Social Sciences and Social Services Russian Inter-university consortium on economic/social/political/human research Data management issues in the third world |
| Conference Wrap-up Friday, May 21 1600-1630 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University |
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