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Conference 2006 Presentations

Tuesday, May 23

Workshops

  • W1: A Gentle Introduction to DDI: What's in it for Me?
    Jim Jacobs, University of California, San Diego, and Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota
    • Evolution of Data Documentation [PDF]
    • Looking into the future ... [PDF]
  • W2: Introduction to GIS
    Karl Longstreth, University of Michigan

  • W3: Introduction to Data Librarianship [ web / PDF ]
    Paul Bern, Syracuse University

  • W4: Building an SDA Archive [ web / PDF ]
    Tom Piazza and Charlie Thomas, University of California, Berkeley

  • W5: Hands-On DDI 3.0 - Concept, Structure, and Tools
    Jim Jacobs, University of California, San Diego, and Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota
    • Codebook Centric to Life-Cycle Centric: In the beginning ... [PDF]
    • DDI 3.0 Conceptual Model [PDF]
    • Organizing Groups [PDF]
    • Reviewing for Migration [PDF]
    • Reusable!? Or why DDI 3.0 contains a recycling bin [PDF]
    • SPSS to DDI 3.0 [PDF]
    • The Variable Explosion, Or how the DDI variable spread out to inhabit multiple modules in DDI 3.0 [PDF]
  • W6: Statistical Literacy and Learning Objects
    Milo Schield and Cynthia Schield, W.M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project

  • W7: Using ATLAS.ti to Explore Archived Qualitative Data
    Libby Bishop and Louise Corti, UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Wednesday, May 24

Plenary 1: Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences

  • Moderator: Myron Gutmann, ICPSR, University of Michigan
  • Speaker: Daniel Atkins, School of Information, University of Michigan;
  • Discussant: Bjorn Henrichsen, Norwegian Social Science Data Services; [PDF]

Concurrent sessions

  • A1: Leading Users to Knowledge: Data Librarians to the Rescue
    Session chair: Stuart Macdonald, University of Edinburgh
    • Keeping Current in Social Science Data (Without Paddling Upstream) [ web] [PDF]
      Joanne Juhnke, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • Education on the Fly for the Accidental Library Data Professional: Design Your Professional Publication
      Michele Hayslett, North Carolina State University Libraries

    • Social Science Data Librarianship: A University Curriculum
      Fredric Gey, University of California at Berkeley, and Frank Olken, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Blending Traditional and Data Librarianship
      Jennifer Darragh, Pennsylvania State University; Paula Lackie, Carleton College; and Tiffani Conner, University of Connecticut

  • A2: The Essential Role of Metadata in Resource Discovery
    Session chair: Tess Trost, Texas Tech University (retired)
    • Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Building a Metadata Repository for Time Series Data at the Federal Reserve Board [PDF]
      [click on hyperlinks within powerpoint to view web pages]
      San Cannon and Meredith Krug, Federal Reserve Board

    • Research-Based Metadata Requirements for a BLS Reports Archive [PDF]
      Scott C. Berridge, John J. Bosley, and Daniel W. Gillman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    • The Madiera Portal: Unified Access to European Data Resources [PDF]
      Alette Gilhus Mykkeltvedt, Norwegian Social Science Data Services

    • Enabling Discovery, Integration, and Understanding of Criminal Justice Statistical Information: Developing a Metadata Application Profile [PDF]
      Carol A. Hert, University of Washington, Tacoma, and Sheila O. Denn, University of North Carolina

  • A3: Innovations in Data Dissemination
    Session chair: Dan Tsang, University of California at Irvine
    • What's New With SDA? [ web] [PDF ]
      Tom Piazza, University of California at Berkeley

    • Sociometrics [PDF]
      Josefina J. Card, Sociometrics Corporation

    • University Information System RUSSIA: Database and Value-Added Service for Investigations of Life Quality and Economic Welfare of Households and Individuals in Russia [PDF]
      Tatyana Yudina, and Anna Bogomolova, Moscow State University

  • B1: Institutional Repositories and Social Science Data: Supporting the Data Life Cycle
    Session Chair: Ann Green, Digital Life Cycle Research and Consulting [PDF]
    • Research and IR Cohabitating [PDF]
      Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta;

    • Highlights from the .Open Access Timeline [PDF]
      Robin Rice, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

    • Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA): Model, Mission and Services [PDF]
      Larry McGill, Princeton University;

    • Institutional Repository (IR) Models [PDF]
      Ron Jantz, Rutgers University Libraries

    • Deep Blue
      Jim Ottaviani, University of Michigan Library
  • B2: Managing Metadata: Archival Processing
    Session chair: Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota
    • Efficient Ingest of Datasets in a Two-Stage Archival Process: The First Phase - Easy-Store [PDF]
      Marion Wittenberg and Rutger Kramer, DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Hague, The Netherlands

    • Metadata Management: The Forgotten World of the Back Office [PDF]
      Anne Etheridge, Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)

    • Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community Tools for Data Mark-Up (SQUAD) [PDF]
      Louise Corti and Libby Bishop, UK Data Archive

    • Building Infrastructure and Alliances to Meet Common Goals: "The Creation of a Canadian Public Opinion Data Index" [PDF]
      Laine Ruus, University of Toronto, and Lois Timms-Ferrara, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut

  • B3: Compare and Contrast: Using Cross-National Data
    Session chair: Jane Weintrop, Columbia University
    • International Comparative Data: Advice to Neophytes [ web] [PDF]
      Susan Hook Czarnocki, McGill University

    • Evaluating the Quantity and Quality of Publicly Available Cross-National Crime Data [PDF]
      Janet P. Stamatel, University at Albany

    • Let's Qualify What is Quantified: The Language of Change - Teachers and Their Expressions of Change in Six Countries [PDF]
      Nora Arato, University of Michigan School of Nursing

    • Association of Religion Data Archives [PDF]
      Brian J. Grim, Pennsylvania State University Survey Research Center and the ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives)

  • C1: Data Issues in the Sciences: An Environmental Scan
    Session chair: Gretchen Gano, Yale University
    • Data Access and Preservation across the Sciences: New Ideas and Initiatives
      Bob Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

    • The Science Commons Data Project
      John Wilbanks, Science Commons

    • The Scientific Data Commons and Non-conventional Sources
      Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine

  • C2: Effective Design for Data-Rich Web Sites
    Session chair: Mary Vardigan, ICPSR, University of Michigan
    • Evaluation of Web Sites: What Works and What Doesn't [PDF]
      Sue Ellen Hansen, Survey Research Operations, University of Michigan, and Matthew Richardson, ICPSR, University of Michigan

    • Building Data-Rich Web Sites: The Integration Projects of the Minnesota Population Center [PDF]
      Bill Block, University of Minnesota Population Studies Center

    • Best Practices for Designing and Building Highly Interactive and Data-Aware Web Sites [PDF]
      Mark Gregor, Velir Studios

  • C3: Effective Strategies for Metadata Management
    Session chair: San Cannon, Federal Reserve Board
    • International Household Survey Network: Microdata Management Toolkit [PDF]
      Pascal Heus, International Household Survey Network

    • Implementing a National Data Archive in Ethiopia: Challenges and Experience
      Yakob Mudesir Seid, Ethiopia Central Statistical Agency

    • Microdata Information System MISSY [PDF]
      Andrea Janssen, Jeanette Bohr, and Joachim Wackerow, GESIS/ZUMA (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology)

Thursday, May 25

Plenary 2: Disclosure Risk Limitation in Social Science Data: A Plenary in Honor of Pat Doyle

  • Moderator: Judith Rowe, Princeton University (retired)
  • Speaker: Julia Lane, National Opinion Research Center; [PDF]
  • Discussant: Robert Groves, University of Michigan,
  • Discussant: Cynthia Cook, Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre Program; [PDF]

Concurrent sessions

  • D1: Data Life Cycle Management and the Digital Repository: FEDORA-Based Initiatives
    Session chair: Robin Rice, EDINA, University of Edinburgh
    • A FEDORA-Based Institutional Repository to Support Multidisciplinary Collections [PDF]
      Ron Jantz, Rutgers University Libraries

    • Exploring FEDORA's Possibilities to Create a Research Space for the Sciences
      Donna J. Tolson, University of Virginia

    • Migrating Numeric Data Collections into FEDORA
      Gretchen Gano, Yale University

  • D2: Metadata Models: Mining and Retrieval
    Session chair: Melanie Wright, UK Data Archive, UK Economic and Social Data Service
    • Mine Your Data: Contrasting Data Mining Approaches to Numeric and Textual Data Sources [PDF]
      Louise Corti, UK Data Archive, and Karsten Boye Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark

    • Metadata by Design and Fielded Metadata: The Poles of a Space in Which Data Processing Takes Place [PDF]
      Reto Hadorn, Swiss Information and Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences

    • The Nature of Data [PDF]
      Frank Farance, Farance Inc., and Daniel W. Gillman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • D3: Enabling Access to Data: Promising Approaches
    Session chair: Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph
    • The Special Licence Model for Access to More Detailed Microdata [PDF]
      Karen Dennison, UK Data Archive

    • UK 2001 Census Microdata: Providing Access to Data Subject to Confidentiality Constraints [PDF]
      Jo Wathan, University of Manchester

    • Open Access Movement and Data [PDF]
      Jeffrey S. Bullington, University of Kansas Libraries

  • E1: DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0 (Part 1)
    Session chair: Ron Nakao, Stanford University
    • Locating the Geographic Center of DDI 3.0 [PDF]
      Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota

    • Problems of Comparability in the German Microcensus Over Time and the New DDI Version 3.0 [PDF]
      Jeanette Bohr, Andrea Janssen, and Joachim Wackerow, GESIS/ZUMA (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology)

    • DDI Version 3 and Instrument Documentation [PDF]
      Karl Dinkelmann, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

  • E2: Archival Partners: Handling "Born Digital" Materials
    Session chair: Peggy Adams, National Archives and Records Administration
    • Peter Granda, ICPSR, University of Michigan [PDF]

    • David Horrocks, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

    • Marc Maynard, Roper Center; Michael Carlson, National Archives and Records Administration [PDF]
  • E3: Applications for Managing and Distributing Geospatial Data
    Session chair: Michal Paneth-Peleg, The Hebrew University
    • An Update from Statistics Canada [PDF]
      Bernie Gloyn, Statistics Canada

    • Leveraging Resources through Partnerships: A Case Study of a Distributed Web Mapping Service [PDF]
      Michele Hayslett, North Carolina State University Libraries

    • Got Data? Google Map It! [PDF]
      Paul Bern, Syracuse University

Poster Sessions

  • Access to Archival Databases
    Thomas Brown, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

  • Association of Religion Data Archives
    Brian J. Grim, Pennsylvania State University SRC and the ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives)

  • Building Outreach and Dialogue -- Data Librarianship: the Continuing LIS Education
    Tiffani Conner, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Darragh, Pennsylvania State University; Paula Lackie, Carleton College

  • China Data Explorer
    Shuming Bao, University of Michigan China Data Center; Dave Carson, iScience

  • Connecting Users to Numeric and Spatial Resources: How Are Libraries Faring?
    Shawn W. Nicholson, Michigan State University, and Terrence B. Bennett, The College of New Jersey

  • Creating a Repository of Training Materials: the Canadian Experience
    Jane Fry, Carleton University

  • DAIS KM Suite
    Prem Khosla, Health Canada

  • Data Sharing for Demographic Research Program at ICPSR [PDF]
    Felicia LeClere, ICPSR, University of Michigan

  • The Data Warehouse on trends in Health and Aging: An Online Data Resource for Health Professionals
    Harold Lentzner, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics

  • Davidson Data Center and Network: Extending the Reach
    Patricia Loh, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan

  • DDI2StatsProgs: Data Definition Command Generator on the Basis of DDI Documents
    Joachim Wackerow, GESIS/ZUMA (Center for Survey Research and Methodology)

  • Design and Development of Data-Intensive Web Sites
    Mark Gregor and Teresa Bailey, Velir Studios

  • Evaluating Suitability for User Purpose in a Commons of Geographic Data
    James Campbell, Harlan Onsrud, Marilyn Lutz, Kenton Williams, and David McCurry, Fogler Library and the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine

  • Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction (GRADE)
    Anne Robertson, EDINA

  • National Infrastructure for Community Statistics
    Rebecca Blash, The Brookings Institute

  • QNEDS Data Warehouse
    John Rago, NORC at the University of Chicago

  • Rarely Used Nesstar Funcionalities)
    Irena Vipavc Brvar, Social Science Data Archives, Slovenia

  • Social Survey Data Archiving in the Philippines
    Jeanette M. Ureta, Social Weather Stations

  • SourceOECD
    Joachim K. Doll, OECD

  • Turning Program Management Data Into a Research Dataset: working With the Department of Commerce to Study Technology Projects in Local Communities
    Kate Williams, Dominican university Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Mark Bard and Andrea Wiggins, University of Michigan, School of Information

  • The UK Economic and Social Data Service: A One-Stop-Shop for Social Science Data Access and Support
    Louise Corti, UK Data Archive

Friday, May 26

Plenary 3: Toward a System of Trusted Digital Repositories

  • Moderator: John P. Wilkin, University of Michigan Library
  • Speaker: Robin Dale, Research Libraries Group; [PDF]
  • Discussant: David McMillen, National Archives and Records Administration;

Concurrent sessions

  • F1: We All Count: Quantitative Literacy Efforts and Approaches
    Session chair: Libby Stephenson, University of California at Los Angeles
    • Developing a Framework for Quantitative Literacy: Counting on IASSIST
      Wendy Watkins, Carleton University

    • Creating a Repository of Training Materials: The Canadian Experience
      Jane Fry, Carleton University

    • Statistical Literacy Survey Results ( paper / presentation )
      Milo Schield, W.M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project, Augsburg College

    • European Social Survey Education Net: Research-Like Learning in the Social Sciences [PDF]
      Atle Jastad, Norwegian Social Science Data Services

  • F2: Catch and Release: Best Practice Across the Data Life Cycle
    Session chair: Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta
    • Producing Archive-Ready Datasets: Compliance, Incentives, and Motivation [PDF]
      Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan

    • Two Documents, Three Legs, and Five Stages: Developing an Organizational Response to Digital Preservation Requirements [PDF]
      Nancy McGovern, Cornell University

    • The LEADS Database at ICPSR: Identifying Important Social Science Studies for Archiving [PDF]
      Amy Pienta, ICPSR, University of Michigan

    • What Goes Around, Comes Around: We Must All be Data Curators Now [PDF]
      Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh

  • F3: Moving Beyond Data to Networked Knowledge
    Session chair: Cor van der Meer, Fryske Akademy
    • Alternative Ways of Presenting Historical Census Data [PDF]
      Luuk Schreven and Anouk de Rijk, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services

    • Database Developments to Establish Internet Content Services [PDF]
      Zoltan Lux, 1956 Institute, Budapest

    • Delivering Government Data to Lawyers and Journalists [PDF]
      Susan Long and Linda Roberge, Syracuse University

    • Disseminating Survey Information in the Networked World: A UK Resource [PDF]
      Julie Lamb, University of Surrey

  • F4: The Big Picture: GIS Data Challenges and Solutions
    Session chair: Marilyn Andrews, University of Regina
    • State and Local Government Challenges for Geospatial Data Management and Distribution [PDF]
      Robert R. Downs and Robert S. Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

    • Consideration for Security Issues of Geospatial Information Services in Local Governments [PDF]
      Makoto Hanashima, Institute for Areal Studies, Foundation / Institute of Information Security

    • Organizing Data With Temporal and Spatial References
      Michal Paneth-Peleg, Israel Social Sciences Data Center, The Hebrew University

    • Integration of GIS With 2000 China Population Census Data
      Shuming Bao, China Data Center, University of Michigan

What the Hell Were We Thinking?!?! UM's Deal with Google [PDF]
John P. Wilkin, University of Michigan Library

  • G1: DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0 (Part 2)
    Session chair: Pascal Heus, International Hoisehold Survey Network
    • DDI 3
      Arofan Gregory, Aeon LLC

    • DDI 3
      Jostein Ryssevik, presented by Chris Nelson, Open Data Foundation

    • Three Out of Two People Want to Know: The Issues Behind Conversion to DDI 3
      Ken Miller, UK Data Archive

  • G2: New Standards in Statistics and Data Citations
    Session chair: Diane Geraci, Harvard College Library
    • Basic Forms of Citation for Statistics and Data: Towards an Accepted Standard [PDF]
      Gaetan Drolet, Statistics Canada

    • A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data
      Micah Altman and Gary King, Harvard University

    • Tracking and Managing Citations: Data Centers and Best Practices [PDF]
      W. Christopher Lenhardt, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

    • Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of Citation Standards [PDF]
      Jeri Schneider, ICPSR

  • G3: Supporting Data Users in a Networked World
    Session chair: Tiffani Conner, University of Connecticut
    • From Primitive Numbers to Knowledge: How Technology Has Enhanced the Dissemination of Social Science Data [PDF]
      Chiu-chuang (Lu) Chou, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    • Networking in the University Environment: Building Bridges From the Bottom Up [PDF]
      Jennifer Darragh, The Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute, and Stephen Woods, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries

    • Developing a Social Science and GIS Data Service in a Predominantly Undergraduate Library: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]
      Suzette Giles, Ryerson University

    • Data Services Awareness and Use Survey: What We Learned About Promoting Data Services [PDF]
      Eleanor Read, University of Tennessee

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