List of Speakers and Conference Sessions

Plenary Sessions

 

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

Concurrent Sessions

 

B:0 IASSIST at 25: Bridging the Past with the Future Wednesday, May 19 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

 

C:1 Qualitative Data Archives: Enriching Research Possibilities Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

C:2 Collaborative Access to Data: New Approaches to Sharing Resources Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic 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

C:3 Preserving Electronic Resources: Issues and User Patterns Shaping the Future Wednesday, May 19 1600-1730 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

 

D:1 Reflections on Thirty Years of Canadian National Election Surveys Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

Chair: Bob MacDermid, York University Speakers: John Meisel, Queen's University Larry Leduc, University of Toronto Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto

D:2 The Changing Nature of Metadata: Exploring Approaches Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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.

D:3 Thematic Archives Thursday, May 20 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

 

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

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

E:2 Data Futures: Perspectives from the Researcher and Instructor Friday, May 21 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

E:3 Future Directions of Financial and Economic Databases Friday, May 21 1100-1230 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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 r•cade (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

 

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

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

F:2 Managing Access through Web Tools Friday, May 21 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

F:3 Emerging National Social Science Data Services Friday, May 21 1400-1530 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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

 

Conference Wrap-up Friday, May 21 1600-1630 Place: Rogers Communication Building, Ryerson Polytechnic University

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