List of Speakers and Conference Sessions

Chair: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie-Mellon University

Speakers:

• Hermann Habermann, U.N. Statistics Division
• Antonio Puig, INEGI
• Ray Ryan, Statistics Canada
• Katherine Wallman, U.S. OMB

P2: Global Directions for Large National and International Survey Research Projects
Thursday, May 20
0930-1030
Place: Room V204, Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

Chair: Scott Bennett, Carleton University

Speaker: Tom Smith, NORC

P3: The Impact of the Net on Data and Information Professionals
Friday, May 21
0930-1030
Place: Room V204, Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

Chair: Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh

Speaker: Barbara O'Keefe, Director, Media Union, University of Michigan

Chair: Ernie Boyko, Statistics Canada

The Australian Data Dissemination Initiative: access to confidentialised unit record files for University teaching and research
Dr Len Smith,
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

The Scientific Statistical Agency as an intermediate data facility in the Netherlands; Fifth wheel on the wagon or oil in the machine?
Dr. Ron Dekker,
Managing Director, Scientific Statistical Agency

Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics
Doug Norris,
Director, Family, Housing and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada

Chair: James Harris, University of Manchester

Geographic Information Systems and Social Sciences Data: Over the Net
Ian Bowles,
Pulaski Area Geographic Information System, Little Rock, Arkansas

Overcoming Barriers to the Use of the Census through Interactive Visualization
Jackie Carter and Nina Bullen,
MIDAS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK

Changing Boundaries: Gazetteers, Information Retrieval and Data Browsing
Cressida Chappell,
History Data Service, UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Towards an Electronic Historical Atlas of Britain
Humphrey Southall,
Reader in Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; and Programme Director, Great Britain GIS Programme

Chair: Tess Trost, Texas Tech University

Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing: a method of capturing sensitive information
Emma Forster,
Research Fellow, Department of Psychology and Sociology, Napier University, Scotland, UK

Combining Archive Data and Student-Created Variables in Data Analysis on the Web
Tom Piazza,
Manager of Statistical Services, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

The Social and Organisational Life Data Archive
Ken Reed,
Bowater School of Management & Marketing, Deakin University, Australia

Chair: Laine Ruus, University of Toronto

Session abstract

IASSIST : Origins and Evolution as revealed in its archives and other materials
Margaret O. Adams

Early IASSIST as recalled by its first president
Carolyn Geda

Social Research Infrastructure from a European Perspective
Ekkehard Mochmann

Chair: Sheila Anderson, UK Data Archive

Text, sound and video-tape: the future of electronic qualitative data in the global network
Louise Corti,
Centre Manager, Qualidata Archival Resource Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Essex

Qualitative and quantitative research strategies: towards a possible convergence?
Søren Hviid Pedersen,
Danish Data Archives

How qualitative data might be archived: from the perspective of the researcher
Dr Judy Paisley,
School of Nutrition, Ryerson Polytechnical University

Chair: Anastassia Khouri, McGill University

SHERLOCK - A Web Magnifying Glass for Microdata Files
Gaetan Drolet,
Laval University, Québec

The Social Science Dream Machine: resource discovery, analysis and delivery on the Web
Jostein Ryssevik, Assistant Director, NSD
Simon Musgrave, UK Data Archive

Development of a health data archive for Bangladesh
Deana Leadbeter,
International Health Information Specialist, South East Institute of Public Health, UK

Chair: Ann S. Gray

The Authenticity and Integrity of the Electronic Records
Sue Bryant,
Assistant Director of Operations, Interdepartmental PKI Task Force, Treasury Board Secretariat

Statistics Supermarket: Where Do Canadian Social Scientists Shop?
Dr. Kirsti Nilsen,
Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

E-journals - What's the difference between a Scientist and a Social Scientist?
Ross MacIntyre,
Senior Project Manager, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, and Ken Eason, Professor of Cognitive Ergonomics, Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, U.K.

RSS Working group on archiving data: achieving standards for documenting data for preservation and secondary analysis
Hilary Beedham,
Data Archive, University of Essex

Chair: Bob MacDermid, York University

Speakers:

• John Meisel, Queen's University
• Larry Leduc, University of Toronto
• Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto

Chair: Ann Green, Yale University

Metadata and Metainformation: old concepts and new challenges
Dusan Soltes,
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Management, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Maximizing the Search Potential of Social Science Codebooks Through the Application of the Codebook DTD
Wendy Treadwell,
Coordinator of the Machine Readable Data Center, University of Minnesota Libraries

Dutch Data Documentation Initiative: integrating documentation standards of a historical and social science archive
A. van Nispen,
Data Archivist, NIWI / Netherlands Historical Data Archive

If Variables Could Talk, What Should They Be Able to Say? An Intelligent Agent Approach to Metadata
Edward Brent and G. Alan Thompson, Idea Works, Inc.
Albert F. Anderson and Lisa Neidert, Public Data Inquiries, Inc.

Chair: Ann Janda, Northwestern University

Thematic Archiving: A Cross-national Collaborative Approach
Jonathan Gershuny, University of Essex); Andrew Harvey, St Mary's University, Nova Scotia
Duncan Ironmonger, University of Melbourne

Public Opinion Archives at Queen's: Making Content Accessible
Bob Burge,
Centre for the Study of Democracy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

A Didactic Session on the American Religion Data Archive
Roger Finke,
American Religion Data Archive, Purdue University

Chair: JoAnn Dionne, University of Michigan

The Digital Library Federation and Numeric Data
Donald J. Waters, Director, Digital Library Federation

Data and Digital Libraries: Developments in Canada
Michael Ridley, Chief Librarian, University of Guelph

Other speaker: Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh

Chair: Richard Boily, Université du Québec à Rimouski

Social Data in Canada, After Liberation
Michael Ornstein,
Associate Director and Senior Research Methodologist, Institute for Social Research, York University

Data Archives and Data Dissemination in Canadian Social Science: Instructor and Researcher Perspectives
Doug Baer, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario

The Learning Society and the Informed Citizen - turning dreams into reality or a nightmare?
Derek Bond, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Management, University of Ulster
Moira Cullen, University of Ulster

The Availability of Victimization Data: The Impact on Canadian Research
Catherine Kaukinen,
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

Chair: Walter Piovesan, Simon Fraser University

Data as a New Commodity
Sean Townsend,
London School of Economics

Global access to European statistical data. Re-intermediation in the context of a collaborative partnership
Michael Blakemore,
Executive Director, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Resource Centre rïcade (Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe) and Professor of Geography, University of Durham, UK

Measuring the New Economy
Fred Gault
Director, Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division, Statistics Canada

Chair: Elizabeth Hamilton, University of New Brunswick

Breaking Paper Barriers: The Future of Traditional Archives in the Global Network
Thomas E. Brown,
Manager, Archival Services, Center for Electronic Records, Electronic and Special Media Records Services Division, U.S. National Archives

Data Librarians: Evolution or Extinction?
Jocelyn Tipton,
Data and Electronic Services Librarian, Yale University

The Open Source Revolution and the Future of Data Libraries
Gregory Haley,
Head, Electronic Data Service, Columbia University

Information Literacy Instruction with Electronic Data Files
Mark Anderson,
Government Documents Librarian, University of Northern Colorado

Chair: Wendy Treadwell, University of Minnesota

Tools, Templates and Training: Using the Web for Teaching in the Social Sciences at Harvard
Paul Bergen,
Manager, Instructional Computing, FAS Computer Services, Harvard University

Data on the Web: Choices and Solutions
Paul H. Bern,
Data Services Consultant, Princeton University

The XML Files: Developing Data UFOs
Ken Miller with Pasqualino "Titto" Assini,
UK Data Archive

Safeguarding On-line Digital Data Archives
Jostein Ryssevik, Assistant Director, Development Department, NSD
Melanie Wright, Acting Director, End User Services, UK Data Archive

Chair: Jeffrey Moon, Queen's University

L'acces aux donnees en France/Accessing Data in France
Irene Fournier,
Ingénieur de recherche, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), LASMAS-IdL (Laboratoire d'Analyse Secondaire et de Méthodes Appliquées à la Sociologie Institut du Longitudinal)

Social Network Paradigm and Electronic Data Access for Social Sciences and Social Services
Poliana Stefanescu , Ph.D.,
Department Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania

Russian Inter-university consortium on economic/social/political/human research
Tatyana Yudina,
Russian Inter-University Social Sciences Information and Research Center, Moscow State University, Russia

Data management issues in the third world
Kristin Fox,
Derek Gordon Data Bank, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies