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the global network / IASSIST - CAPDU Annual Conference / Toronto, Canada, May 17-21, 1999]](conf_logo.gif){kind=logo}
We live with a ubiquitous computing technology that boasts of providing universal delivery of information over a global network, and yet the information cultures of many countries present barriers to public data access. What is the future of both numeric and textual data in the global network?
This conference is an opportunity for the producers of data and the providers of data services to explore the issues of public data access and to examine cultural, political, and economic barriers to access. It is also a time to strategize about the bridges that can be built to overcome access barriers and to exchange ideas about applying the global network to enhance the use of data in research, teaching, and policy analysis. A sub-theme will focus on the changing nature of data in the global network, and from the perspective of national and international statistical agencies.
The joint program committee welcomes proposals for papers, panels, poster sessions, demonstrations and workshops. Submissions that incorporate the following themes are particularly welcome: data access from national and international statistical agencies; the future of international survey research projects; the impact of network technology on data services; challenges to data preservation in the global network; developments in data documentation and metadata standards; the future of data librarians and data archivists (does disintermediation mean the death of data service professionals?); data futures in qualitative and quantitative research; and innovations in the application of data in classroom instruction.
IASSIST conferences bring together professionals who are engaged in the creation, acquisition, processing, documentation, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of computerized social science data. The Canadian Association of Public Data Users is composed of a membership concerned about access to public data for the purposes of research and policy analysis. The complementary and overlapping interests of these two organizations provide a rich spectrum of expertise in which to explore new ideas and solutions.
The conference will open with the CAPDU annual meeting on Sunday May 16, (from 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. in room I 110 of Pitman Hall, 160 Mutual Street on the Ryerson campus) followed by joint workshops on Monday the 17th and Tuesday, May 18th. May 19th through the 21st will consist of three days of plenaries, sessions, panels, and social events.
A post-conference excursion to Niagara Falls has been planned for Saturday the 22nd of May. A minimum of thirty people is required, with maximum seating for 46, for this excursion to take place.
Full registration materials will be mailed to IASSIST and CAPDU members, posted on numerous listservs, and are available on the conference registration page. In addition, non-members submitting proposals will receive complete registration and accomodation information.
The papers presented at the conference will be published by IASSIST. Presenters will be asked to provide a formal paper for publication in the IASSIST Quarterly.
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