Conference 2000 Presentations

Wednesday, June 7

Innovations in Large Scale Data Dissemination Systems

Chair: Ann Green (Yale University)

• Micah Altman "Digital Library Support for Sharing and Replication: A Report on the Virtual Data Center"
• Cavan Capps "The Data Web and FERRETT: Innovations in Integrating Distributed Federal, State, and Local Data"
• Simon Musgrave and Jostein Ryssevik "FASTER: Accelerated Access to Official and Statistical Data" [PDF]

Steven Ruggles and Catherine Fitch "International Integrated Microdata Access System"

The Politics of Census 2000 -- Implications for Data Quality

Chair: Judith Rowe (Retired, Princeton University)

Speaker: Kenneth Prewitt (Director, U.S. Bureau of the Census)

Concurrents:

C1: International Infrastructures for Statistical Data

Chair: Repke de Vries

• Wouter De Groot "EUSTAGE: Towards a European Statistical Agency as an Intermediate Data Facility in Europe"
• Dusan Soltes "Web-based Data Enters Classrooms in Countries in Transition"
• Ernie Boyko "Developing Statistical Infrastructure in other countries: The Statistics Canada Experience" [PDF]
• Robert D. Bush "International Training Activities in the U.S. Census Bureau"

C2:Technical and Legal Perspectives on Digital Archives Chair:

Chair: Yvette Hackett (National Archives of Canada)

• Thomas E. Brown "Muddying the Waters: When the Laws Dictate Archival Decisions"
• Robert Chadduck "Collection-Based Persistent Long Term Preservation"
• Eun G. Park and Shelby Sanett "Authenticity as a Requirement of Preserving Digital Data and Records"

C3:Building Connections among Heterogenous Terminologies and Multiple Languages

Chair: Tess Trost (Texas Tech)

• Fred Gey "Seamless Searching of Textual and Numeric Resources"
• Robert Mayo "Metadata in International Database Systems and the United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)"
• Ken Miller "Limbering Up: Preparing for the Race to Provide Multi-lingual Access and Automatic Indexing" [PDF]

D1: From Many, One: The Archival Infrastructure for U.S. Social Science Data Research

Chair:Miron L. Straf (Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education)

• Margaret O. Adams (NARA)
• Cindy Severt (U. of Wisconsin, DPLS) [PDF]
• Ilona Einowski (UC Data, Berkeley)

Janet Vavra (ICPSR)

D2:Promoting GIS Literacy

Chair: Peter Burnhill (Edinburgh University)

• Mary French "The ARL GIS Literacy Project: Support for Government Data Services in the Digital Library"
• John C. Hudson, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University "The Role of GIS in the University"
• Steven Morris "Developing and Using Finding Aids for Geospatial Data"
• Patrick McHaffie, Department of Geography, DePaul University "To Be Announced"

D3:Effective Use of Technology in Delivering Data

Chair:Paul Bern (Princeton)

• William Block et al "Systems Implementation of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: A Description of the Computing Infrastructure of the IPUMS"
• Ron Nakao "The E-Codebook Data Extraction Web Interface"
• Tom Piazza "Providing Student Workspaces for Data Analysis on the Web"

Thursday, June 8

Plenary:

E0:Research Centres and Confidential Data

Chair: Bjorn Henrichsen (Norwegian Social Science Data Services)

• Paul Bernard (University of Montreal) [PDF]
• Michael Clune (California Census Research Data Center, University of California, Berkeley)
• Ron Dekker (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) [PDF]

Concurrents:

F1:Building on the DDI/DTD Foundation: Additional Perspectives on DTD Application and Use

Chair:Patrick Yott (University of Virginia)

• Wendy Treadwell, et al "The Development of a Generalized Resource Tool for Aggregate Data (GRETA) at the University of Minnesota" [PDF]
• Marcus Schommler, et al "ISSP Data Wizard"
• Tom Piazza "Where will DDI-documented Data Come From?"
• Marion Wittenberg "How to Use the DDI DTD in Day to Day Archive Practice"

F2:The Role of Data Quality in Social Science Research

Chair:Ernie Boyko (Statistics Canada)

• Paul Bernard, University of Montreal
• Josephina J. Card and Michael Carley, Sociometrics, Inc. [PDF]
• Cathyrn Dippo, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [PDF]

F3:Financial Data Vendors and Resources

Chair:Laine Ruus (University of Toronto)

• CRSP
• Compustat
• Datastream

G1:Whither IASSIST? or IASSIST in the 21st Century

Chair: Peter Burnhill (Edinburgh University)

• Karsten Boye Rasmussen and Repke de Vries "Descriptive Figures and Hints for Further Research: IASSIST as a Virtual Community"
• Chuck Humphrey and Ann Green, "The IASSIST Five year Plan, Ten Years After"

Friday, June 9

Plenary:

H0: Culture Shock and Identity Crisis: Data in Libraryland

Chair: Diane Garner (Harvard University)

• Deborah Dancik (University of Alberta)
• Tom Parris (Harvard University)
• Jean Sykes (London School of Economics)

Concurrents:

I1:Digital Library Federation: Reorganizing, Refocusing, and Moving Towards Concrete Collaboration

Chair: Jackie Druery (Northwestern University)

Speaker: Daniel Greenstein (Director, Digital Library Federation)

I2:Integrated Geospatial Information Systems and Services

Chair:Gregory Haley

• W. Christopher Lenhardt "Spatial Data Integration Challenges: The Gridded Population of the World Approach"
• David Medyckyj-Scott, et al "EDINA Digimap: an internet mapping and data service for the UK Higher Education Community"
• Cameron Wilson "Discover, Visualize, and Access Geomatics Data and Services: Current Concepts and Technology" [PDF]

I3: Dynamics of Digital Objects and Accompanying Metadata

Chair:Peter Joftis (ICPSR)

• Edward Brent, et al "Representing Metadata with Intelligent Agents: An Initial Prototype" [PDF]
• Jostein Ryssevik "Hyperlinking the World of Social Science: Integrating Text and Data in a Global Hypertext Space"
• Mark E. Wallace "User Driven Integrated Statistical Solutions- Digital Government by the People for the People"

Lunch

Speaker: Norman M. Bradburn, Assistant director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE), National Science Foundation

J1:Archives and Assignments: Instructional Uses of Data Services

Chair: Grant Blank (American University)

• Roger Finke "Archives as Teaching Tools: Using the American Religion Data Archive for Undergraduate Instruction"
• Lisa Neidert, et al "Moving from the Blackboard to the Computer: Using Data in a Classroom Setting"
• Robin Rice and Melanie Wright "Promoting Use of Numeric Datasets in Learning and Teaching Through Enhanced Local Support"

J2:Qualitative Data: Collecting, Preserving and Sharing

Chair:Louise Corti (University of Essex)

• Louise Corti "Progress and Problems of Preserving and Providing Acess to Qualitative Data for Social Research: the international picture of an emerging culture"
• Reto Hadorn "Data Archives: Documentation of and access to sensitive data: the International Committee for the Red Cross project"
• Arja Kuula "Making Qualitative Research Reusable: Case in Finland"
• Zoltan Lux "Informatics-based Support for Research and Education in the Field of Contemporary Studies"

J3:Economics and Business Resources in your Data Library

Chair: Bo Wandschneider (University of Guelph)

• Paul Bern "Technical Issues in Providing Economic and Financial Data"
• Heather McMullen "Meeting the Needs of Economic and Financial Data Users"
• Sean Townsend "Finding Global Economic Statistics is Easy. Isn't it?"