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Conference 2004 presentation files

Tuesday, May 25

Workshop 1: Using Atlas-ti to explore qualitative data
Workshop 1: Tutorial
Libby Bishop and Louise Corti, ESDS, UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Workshop 2: DDI 101: Codebook Creation for Beginners
William (Bill) Block, University of Minnesota

Workshop 3: Using Streaming Geospatial Data Sources
Steve Morris, North Carolina State University

Workshop 4: DDI 501: Increasing Proficiency and Efficiency with DDI
Workshop 4: Class exercises
Sanda Ionescu and I-Lin Kuo, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Workshop 5: STATA, SPSS, and SAS: Flavors of Statistical Software
Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph

Workshop 6: Creating Web Based Surveys Using MySQL and PHP
Aaron K. Shrimplin and Jen-chien Yu, Miami University of Ohio

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Wednesday, May 26

Plenary

The Future of Social Science Data Archiving in the United States: A Discussion with Five Archive Directors

• Margaret O. Adams (chair)
• Myron Gutmann (ICPSR)
• Kenneth Bollen (The Odum Institute, University of North Carolina)
• Michael Carlson (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Copeland Young (The Murray Center, Radcliffe College)
• Richard Rockwell (The Roper Center, University of Connecticut)

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A1: The Diverse World of Digital Libraries

Chair: Tess Trost

• Multimedia Oral History Database
  Zoltan Lux (Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution)
  
  
• Economic Growth Center Digital Library: Creating Access to Statistical Sources Not Born Digital
  Ann Green (Yale University), Julie Linden (Yale University)
  
  
• A Digital Library in a Multilingual Environment
  Cor van der Meer (Fryske Akademy)

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A2: Pulling It All Together: Strategies in Data Preparation

Chair: San Cannon

• Separating Our Concerns: Evaluating the Use of Apache's Cocoon Project to Efficiently Manage Data Tasks at the Minnesota Population Center
  William C. Block (Minnesota Population Center)
  
  
• Mixing It: Preparing Qual+Quant Data Collections for Dissemination: Experiences from the UK Data Archive
  Louise Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• Practical Viability of Multiple Imputation as a Tool for Disclosure Protection for Large Scale Recurring Surveys
  Pat Doyle (U.S. Census Bureau)

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A3: Collaboration among Data Providers: Strength in Numbers

Chair: Ernie Boyko

• Data Curation and Digital Preservation: A View from the UK (Part 1)
  Data Curation and Digital Preservation: A View from the UK (Part 2)
  Peter Burnhill (EDINA National Data Centre and University Data Library), Robin Rice (EDINA National Data Centre and University Data Library)
  
  
• Archiving Historical Research Data
  Hans Jorgen Marker (Dansk Data Arkiv)

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B1: Assessing User Needs and Data Services

Chair: Donna Tolson

• Thinking Strategically: Development of a Library Data Services Plan
  Katherine McNeill-Harman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  
  
• Data Services Awareness and Use Survey: Assessing Secondary Data Needs at the University of Tennessee
  Eleanor J. Read (University of Tennessee)
  
  
• Building the Statistical Knowledge Network: A Progress Report
  Carol Hert (Syracuse University)

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B2: Peopling the Grid: A Panel Discussion of Institutional Solutions to Data Exchange

• Melanie F. Wright (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
• Celia Russell (University of Manchester)
• Reto Hadorn (Swiss Information and Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences (SIDOS))

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B3: The DDI Expert Committee: Who We Are, Where We're Going, and What It Means to You

Chair: Mary Vardigan

• James A. Jacobs (University of California, San Diego)
• Ilona Einowski (University of California, Berkeley) [Powerpoint slides]
• Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)

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C1: Reinventing a Data Archive in the 21st Century: Process Improvement at ICPSR

Chair: Myron Gutmann

• Peggy Overcashier (ICPSR)
• Cole Whiteman (ICPSR)
• Halliman Winsborough (University of Wisconsin)

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C2: Mapping the Past with GIS

Chair: Steve Citron-Pousty

• Counting Cows and Cabbages: Web-based Extraction and Delivery of Geo-referenced Data
  Stuart Macdonald (Edinburgh University Data Library)
  
  
• Effort Towards a Dutch Historical Geographic Information System
  Luuk Schreven (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI))
  
  
• NHGIS: The Bonus Materials
  Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)

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C3: Data Management Infrastructures: Advances in Processing and Dissemination

Chair: Chuck Humphrey

• UIS RUSSIA Technologies for Social Sciences Research Network
  Tatyana Yudina (Moscow State University, UIS RUSSIA)
  
  
• New User Interface for Managing the Archiving Process in FSD
  Jouni Sivonen (Finnish Social Science Data Archive)
  
  
• Getting Wired: Caffeinating Microdata Production at the Minnesota Population Center with Java
  Marcus Peterson (Minnesota Population Center)

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Thursday, May 27

Plenary

Building on 30 Years of Data Advocacy: Perspectives from Past Presidents
Chair: Ron Nakao

• Alice Robbin (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Ann Gray for Judith Rowe (Princeton University)
• Thomas E. Brown (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Charles Humphrey (University of Alberta)
• Peter Burnhill (EDINA National Data Centre and University Data Library)
• Ann Green (Yale University)

D1: When Metadata Standards Meet: Issues of Language and Interoperability

Chair: Jen Green

• Can DDI Records Be Accurately Transformed to "Catalog-ready" MARC 21 Format?
  Harrison Dekker (University of California, Berkeley)
  
  
• Laying the Groundwork for Addressing Interoperability Issues between Geo-spatial Metadata Standards, the DDI and Dublin Core
  Tony Mathys (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  presented by Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• Implementing an ISO/IEC 11179-3 Metadata Repository for Labour Market Data: Building Semantics through Data Structures
  Rob Grim (Institute for Labour Studies, Tilburg University)

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D2: Privacy, Security, and Information Today

Chair: Margo Anderson

• Internet Surveillance: Recent U.S. Developments
  Juri Stratford (University of California, Davis)
  
  
• An Empirical Examination of the Concern for Information Privacy Construct in the New Zealand Context
  Ellen Rose (Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University)
  
  
• Data Archives in the Post 9/11 World
  Thomas E. Brown (National Archives and Records Administration)

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D3: Ensuring Data Quality: Aim High

Chair: Luuk Schreven

• Elementary Data Quality Elements
  Karsten Boye Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark)
  
  
• Meaning and Illusion in US Economic Statistics: A Case for Education and Restricted Access to Federal Statistical Microdata on Organizations
  Martin David (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  
  
• Missing Data Allocation in the IPUMS: Minnesota Allocation Techniques and Customizable Tools for Researchers
  Colin Davis (Minnesota Population Center)

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E1: DDI in Practice

Chair: Jostein Ryssevik

• Developing the DDI and Its Applications in Taiwan
  Alfred Ko-wei Hu (Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica)
  
  
• Cataloguing Individual Data Values within an On-line Visualisation System Using the DDI Aggregate Data Extension: The New Great Britain Historical GIS
  Humphrey Southall (Great Britain Historical GIS Project, University of Portsmouth)
  
  
• A DTD for Qualitative Data: Extending the DDI to Mark-up the Content of Non-numeric Data
  Louise Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex), Libby Bishop (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• No Longer Lost in Translation
  Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

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E2: Developing Statistical Literacy: Think Globally, Work Locally

Chair: Robin Rice

• Do It Yourselves: A Peer-to-peer Approach to Professional Training
  Wendy Watkins (Carleton University)
  
  
• Data Librarians/Archivists Should Teach Statistical Literacy as Part of Information Literacy
  Milo Schield (W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project, Augsburg College)
  
  
• Understanding and Using Data: A Discussion of the Jargon and Trends in "Quantitative Literacy"
  Paula Lackie (Carleton College)

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Poster Sessions

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Friday, May 28

Plenary

Data in the Dairyland Chair: Janet Eisenhauer Smith

• Jeremy Freese (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Larry Bumpass (National Survey of Families and Households, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Jim Sweet (National Survey of Families and Households, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Alberto Palloni (Health, Well-being and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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F1: Building an International Network of Asian Social Science Research Data

Chair: Mary J. Lee

• Building an International Data Network for China Studies
  Shuming Bao (China Data Center, University of Michigan)
  
  
• The Development of a Survey Data Archive in Taiwan
  Alfred Ko-wei Hu (Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica)

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F2: Helping Increase Statistical Literacy at Universities: Some Perspectives

Chair: S. Vincent Gray

• The Challenges of Integrating Data Literacy into the Curriculum in an Undergraduate Institution
  Karen Hunt (University of Winnipeg)
  
  
• A Model for Providing Statistical Consulting Services in a University Library Setting
  Daniel Edelstein (Princeton University), Kristi Thompson (Princeton University)
  
  
• Filling the Gap: Doing Stats in the Library
  Susan Czarnocki (McGill University)

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F3: Facilitating Data Access and Analysis

Chair: Bo Wandschneider

• Delivering the World: The Establishment of an International Data Service
  Susan Noble (MIMAS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester)
  
  
• Integrated Online Analysis: Evaluating NESSTAR and SDA
  Marc Maynard (The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut)
  
  
• Responding to Digital Data Needs: The DEWI System
  Ron Nakao (Stanford University Libraries), Chris Bourg (Stanford University Libraries)

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G1: New Avenues for Data Dissemination

Chair: Marc Maynard

• The Dutch Social Science Question Bank
  Marion Wittenberg (NIWI / Steinmetz Archive), Helga van Gelder (NIWI / Steinmetz Archive)
  
  
• Grid Technologies for Social Science: The SAMD Project
  Celia Russell, Keith Cole, M.A.S. Jones, S.M. Pickles, M. Riding, K. Roy, and M. Sensier (MIMAS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester)
  
  
• MADIERA: A European Infrastructure for Web-based Data Dissemination: An Overview
  Atle Alvheim (Norwegian Social Science Data Services)

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G2: Three Studies with Numeric and Geospatial Data in Asia -- the Case of China, Vietnam and Korea

Chair: Lu Chou

• Historical Geodata for Pre-Modern China - A Case Study of the CHGIS Project
  Merrick Lex Berman (China Historical Geographic Information System, Harvard Yenching Institute)
  
  
• Report on the Recent Stay as a Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam
  Daniel Tsang (University of California-Irvine)
  
  
• Quantitative and Geospatial Social Science Data in Korea
  Mary J. Lee (Laboratory for Social Research, University of Notre Dame)

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G3: Enhancing the Research Experience for Data Users

Chair: Ann Gray

• Pointers for Secondary Analysis of Public Opinion Data
  Lois Timms-Ferrara (The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut)
  
  
• Reconceptualizing Statistical Abstracts in the 21st Century: An Empirical Study of the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
  Carol Hert (Syracuse University)
  
  
• Research in ICTs and Political Behavior: What We Know and Don't Know About Technology and Political Life
  Alice Robbin (Indiana University Bloomington)