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Conference 2005 presentation files

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Tuesday, May 24 (Pre-conference workshops)

Morning:

• W4: Building a Data Library or Data Observatory on the Web Using Nesstar Technology
  Jostein Ryssevik, Margaret Ward and Cliff Dive (Nesstar, Ltd.)
  
  
• W7: DDI 102: Codebook Creation and Beyond

Afternoon:

• W2: Training the Trainers- Gearing Up the Next Generation (ppt / handout - pdf)
  Ernie Boyko (Statistics Canada - retired) & Chuck Humphrey (University of Alberta)
  
  
• W5: Data Publishing with Nesstar Publisher
  Margaret Ward, Jostein Ryssevik, and Cliff Dive (Nesstar, Ltd.)
  
  
• W6: Using Streaming Geospatial Data Sources
  Steve Morris (North Carolina State University) & Guy McGarva, James Reid (EDINA, University of Edinburgh)

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Wednesday, May 25

Plenary

Chairs: Peter Burnhill and Cor Van der Meer

• The Need for Rigour and Accessibility in Comparative Research
  Roger Jowell (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University)

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Parallel Sessions

A1: Cross-national Socio-economic Data: Boundaries of Evidence

Chair: Celia Russell

• Understanding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals indicators -- how to find and interpret the evidence on target achievement
  Robert Johnston (United Nations Statistics Division)
  
  
• Cross national and intergovernmental data: paying for one stop shopping
  Bobray Bordelon (Princeton University Library)
  
  
• The production and presentation of statistics of unemployment: comparability issues
  John Adams (Napier University), Ray Thomas (Open University)
  
  
• The World on a plate: building and supporting a new community of international data users
  Keith Cole (ESDS International, University of Manchester)

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A2: National Initiatives in Coordinating Preservation: Working Together

Chair: Peter Burnhill

• Data-PASS/NDIIPP: A new effort to harvest our history (funder view)
  Caroline Arms (Library of Congress)
  
  
• UK strategies for digital preservation and digital curation
  Chris Rusbridge (Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh)
  
  
• North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project/NDIIPP: collection and preservation of at-risk digital geospatial data
  Steven P. Morris (North Carolina State University Library)
  
  
• Data-PASS/NDIIPP: A new effort to harvest our history (project update)
  Darrell Donakowski (ICPSR, University of Michigan)

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A3: Enlightened Policies: Improving Collections and Acquisitions

Chair: Taylor, Marcia

• Collecting evidence about studies to guide acquisition policy
  Janez Stebe (Social Science Data Archive, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  
  
• Setting up acquisition policies for a new data archive
  Sami Borg, Helena Laaksonen (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, University of Tampere)
  
  
• Redesigning and formalising national Data Archives' collection development policies
  Amy Pienta (ICPSR, University of Michigan), Louise Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge
  Zoe Bliss (AHDS History)

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B1: Cross-national Social Data: Building Common Ground

Chair: Robert Johnston

• NGO and IGO funded surveys: lessons from Vietnam
  Daniel Tsang (University of California, Irvine)
  
  
• Data archive in developing countries: preservation and dissemination of microdata as an instrument for better development results
  Olivier Dupriez (The World Bank, Development Data Group)
  
  
• DevInfo: A common database
  Trevor Croft, Nicolas Pron (UNICEF), Kris Oswalt (Community Systems Foundation)

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B2: Panel: An Inside View of DDI Version 3.0

Chair: Jostein Ryssevik

• Inside view of DDI Version 3.0: Structural Reform Group report
  Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota), Arofan Gregory (AEON Consulting), Tom Piazza (University of California - Berkeley, Computer-Assisted Survey Methods Program)
  
  
• DDI Comparative Data Working Group: introduction and status
  Oliver Watteler (Zentralarchiv)
  Additional discussants: Ken Miller (UK Data Archive), I-Lin Kuo (ICPSR, University of Michigan), Mark Diggory (Harvard-MIT Data Center), Achim Wackerow (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA))

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B3 : Building Data Services: Evidence from the Users

Chair: Bo Wandschneider

• New user needs will change 'best practice' of data archive services
  Irena Vipavc Brvar (Slovene Social Science Data Archive)
  
  
• Meeting the demand for data professionals
  Jane Fry (Data Centre, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University), Ernie Boyko (Nesstar)
  
  
• Building a data archive that meets the needs of both researchers and non-researchers: how CPANDA addresses this challenge
  Larry McGill (Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, Princeton University)

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C1: The Life Course of Survey Data: Evidence from New Tools

Chair: Mary Vardigan

• Demonstration of a Blaise Instrument Documentation System
  Gina-Qian Cheung (Institution for Social Research, University of Michigan)
  
  
• Demonstration of the interactive codebook for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Cycle VI
  I-Lin Kuo (ICPSR, University of Michigan)
  
  
• Documentation in Blaise: past, present and future
  Lon Hofman (Statistics Netherlands)
  
  
• CASES instrument documentation
  Tom Piazza (University of California, Berkeley)

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C3: New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of Evidence

Chair: Boye Rasmussen, Karsten

• Improving social science data and statistical services through assessment
  Joel Herndon (Duke University, Perkins Library), Alexandra Cooper (Duke University, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI))
  
  
• Data libraries: the view from the other side
  Margaret Law (University of Alberta Library)
  
  
• Data archiving at the US Central Bank
  Linda Powell (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

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Thursday, 26 May 2005

Parallel Sessions

D1: Data Shaping the Neighbourhood: Localised Insight

Chair: Alison Bayley

• Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
  Tracey Stead, John Fraser, Robert Williams (Office of the Chief Statistician, Scottish Executive)
  
  
• Barriers and opportunities for remote access to farm business and farm household data
  Philip Friend (Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture)
  
  
• Characterizing rural England using GIS
  Anne Owen, Steve Cinderby, Meg Huby (University of York)

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D2: Enriching Metadata: the Lifecycle Perspective

Chair: Ann Green

• Survey metadata documentation
  Sue Ellen Hansen (Institution for Social Research, University of Michigan)
  
  
• Providing context for understanding: the data life cycle
  Elizabeth Hamilton (University of New Brunswick)
  
  
• Fitting the life course of the General Social Survey Cycle 17 in the Data Documentation Initiative
  Irene Wong (University of Alberta)
  
  
• The Xtensible Past: XML as a means for easy access to historical research data and a strategy for digital preservation
  Annelies G.C.W. van Nispen, Rutger Kramer (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI))

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D3: Tools to Support Data Services: New Approaches

Chair: Tanvi Desai

• The SDA online analysis system - recent enhancements
  Tom Piazza (University of California, Berkeley)
  
  
• SOEPMENU: A menu-driven Stata/SE interface for accessing the German Socio-Economic Panel
  Mathias Sinning, John P. Haisken-DeNew (SOEPMENU)
  
  
• Reusing information on websites
  Sam Smith (CCSR)

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D4: New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of Evidence

Chair: Eleanor Read

• Increased accessibility of datasets and statistical resources through faculty-library collaboration
  Lynda Duke (Illinois Wesleyan University)
  
  
• Capturing meta data on a different kind of data
  Mary B. McGrath, Mary Jo Roy (Bank of Canada)
  
  
• e-Government Information: the same old problem -- newly digitized
  Alastair J. Allan (University of Sheffield Library)

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E1: Transforming Social Data into Information

Chair: Tess Trost

• Information issues in health networked organisations: cooperative work and new relationships
  Christian Bourret (ISIS, Université de Marne la Vallée)
  
  
• Bridging information and political science: investigating empirical evidence on political information seeking on the internet, 2000-2004
  Alice Robbin (Indiana University)
  
  
• Digitising Dutch Censuses, 1795-1971; Preliminary results & work in progress
  Luuk Schreven (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI))

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E2: Tools for Preservation: Integration and Assessment

Chair: Michal Paneth-Peleg

• Preserving and improving the access to large and complex household surveys
  Jostein Ryssevik (Nesstar Limited), Pascal Heus (World Bank), Olivier Dupriez (World Bank), Mark Diggory (Harvard University)
  
  
• The DataWeb/VDC integration
  Micah Altman (Harvard-MIT Data Centre), Cavan Capps (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
  
  
• An assessment of Virtual Data Center as a tool for dissemination and digital preservation of social science data
  Harrison Dekker (University of California, Berkeley, Doe/Moffit Libraries)

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E3: Enlightening Access Control: New Methods

Chair: Atle Alvheim

• Issues in federated identity management
  Sandy Shaw (EDINA, University of Edinburgh)
  
  
• Shibbolising UK Census and ESDS services
  Lucy Bell (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• The Research Data Centre Program: A fundamental element of the social research infrastructure in Canada
  Gustave Goldmann (Statistics Canada)

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E4: Discovering a Profession: the Accidental Data Librarian

Chair: Cindy Severt

• Looking for data directions? Ask a data librarian
  Luis Martinez (London School of Economics Data Library), Stuart Macdonald (Edinburgh University Data Library)
  
  
• “You’re a what?”: taking stock of the data profession
  Paul H. Bern (Syracuse University)
  
  
• First data, then docs
  Jeffrey Bullington (University of Kansas)
  
  
• Establishing a data service: The Numeric & GeoSpatial Data Service Proposal
  Tiffani Conner (University of Connecticut)

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F1: Timeless Social Data: Past, Present & Future

Chair: Jane Roberts

• Measuring 'the quantum of happiness': ensuring access to the first (& second) Statistical Account
  Peter Burnhill (EDINA National Data Centre & Edinburgh University Data Library), Ann Matheson (Hon. Editor, Statistical Accounts -- formerly Keeper of Books, National Library of Scotland)
  
  
• The history of the social survey – the social survey in history
  Anne Sofie Fink (Danish Data Archives)
  
  
• Industrial classification and the depiction of open source–based production data
  Fernando Elichirigoity (University of Illinois), Cheryl Knott Malone (University of Arizona)

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F2: Metadata Enlightenment: Mark-up Standards and Issues

Chair: Mari Kleemola

• DDI and data
  Hans Jørgen Marker (Dansk Data Arkiv)
  
  
• DDI: does it have a life beyond IASSIST?
  Ernie Boyko (Nesstar)
  
  
• Smart qualitative data: methods and community tools for data mark-up
  Louise Corti, Elizabeth Bishop (UKDA, University of Essex)

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F3: Training for the Use of Data: Evidence from the Trenches

Chair: Marilyn Andrews

• Introducing data history to students
  Michelle Edwards (University of Guelph)
  
  
• Training subject librarians to provide data services
  Katherine McNeill-Harman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  
  
• Demystifying data reference
  Daniel Edelstein, Kristi Thompson (Princeton University)

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Conference Dinner Speech
Professor Derek Law
(Librarian and Head of Information Resources Directorate,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

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Friday, 27 May 2005

Plenary

Chair: Melanie Wright

• Testing Social Change
  John Curtice (Politics and Director of the Social Statistics Lab at Strathclyde University, Co-Director, British General Election Study, Deputy Director ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST))

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Parallel Sessions

G1: Topical Data Collections: Cultural Gems

Chair: Cor Van der Meer

• Upgrading ABC News/Washington Post data collections using DDI and legacy databases
  Mark Maynard (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)
  
  
• The integrated photo-documentary online database
  Zoltan Lux (The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution)
  
  
• ASPECT: a digital library approach to Scottish electoral data
  Jane Barton, Alan Dawson, Andrew Williamson (Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde)
  
  
• The North American Jewish Data Bank: a rare population archive
  Cindy Teixeira (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut)

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G2: Gaining New Insight from Tables and Aggregate Data: Pivotal News

Chair: Micehlle Edwards

• The FRB and XML: national data and international standards
  San Cannon (Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
  
  
• Bring your tables to the Web
  Jostein Ryssevik (NESSTAR Limited)
  
  
• Data management lessons learned from developing GPW v3: implications for users
  W. Christopher Lenhardt (CIESIN - Columbia University)
  
  
• Strengths and weaknesses of the DDI Aggregate Data Extension in directly driving an on-line data visualisation system
  Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth)

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G3: Transforming Data Archives: the Latest Insights

Chair: Karel Pagrach

• A new data infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences in the Netherlands
  Peter Doorn (NIWI-KNAW)
  
  
• Transforming National Data Services: Australia
  Deborah Mitchell, Sophie Holloway (ACSPRI, Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA))
  
  
• Transforming National Data Services: Canada
  Charles Humphrey (University of Alberta)
  
  
• The data infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe: current situation and prospects
  Birgitte Hausstein (Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, University of Cologne), Ludmila Khakhulina, Larissa Kosova (Independent Institute for Social Policy Russian Social Data Archive), Janez Stebe (Social Science Data Archive, University of Ljubljana)

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H1: Becoming Enlightened about Discovering Data: Finding Evidence

Chair: Paul Bern

• Citing statistics and data: where are we today?
  Gaetan Drolet (Statistics Canada)
  
  
• System of subject headings for Russian Federation budget data information system
  Anna Bogomolova, Tatyana Yudina (Moscow State University)
  
  
• Sensor grids for the social sciences
  Rob Procter (National Centre for e-Social Science)
  
  
• Discovery channels
  Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

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H2: Shaping Metadata Insight: The Metadater Tool

Chair: Meinhard Moschner

• Metadater: data models and tools for documenting comparative research data
  Ekkehard Mochmann, Uwe Jensen (GESIS- ZA Cologne)
  
  
• The data model and data production procedures and dissemination
  Marios Fridakis, John Kallas (Greek Social Data Bank at EKKE)
  
  
• MetaDater's perspective on cross-national and diachronic data
  Reto Hadorn (SIDOS)
  
  
• THE Metadater data model and the formation of a grid for the support of social research
  John Kallas (Greek Social Data Bank at EKKE)

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H3: Using National Data

Chair: San Cannon

• Canadian statistics: evidence for enlightened democracy
  Alan Bulley (Statistics Canada)
  
  
• Academic researchers and their use of digital data preserved in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  Margaret O. Adams (NARA)
  
  
• Economic data and publications as snapshots in time
  Katrina Stierholz (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
  
  
• Large-scale, cross-sectional government datasets; research published and recent developments
  Jo Wathan, Vanessa Higgins (Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester)