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Conference 2001 Presentations

See also the complete program for 2001.

Tuesday, May 15 - Workshops

Workshop: Creating DDI compliant codebooks

  • Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota [PDF]
  • Bill Block, University of Minnesota [PDF]
Wednesday, May 16

Plenary A0: Inter- and Intra- National Archives in the New Millenium: Issues, Strategies and Models

  • Data Disclosure by Kevin Schurer, University of Essex, UK Data Archive [PDF]

Session B2: Implementing the DDI 1

  • Learning NESSTAR by Mari Kleemola, University Tampere, Finnish Social Science Data Archive [PDF]
  • NESSTAR - the data archive perspective by Margaret Ward, University of Essex, UK Data Archive [PDF]
  • Leveraging Gains in Metadata-based Knowledge Management and Data Access Systems: The DAIS NESSTAR Project. by Bill Bradley, Health Canada; Simon Musgrave, UK Data Archive University of Essex; and Jostein Ryssevik, Norwegian Social Science Data Services [PDF]

Session C2: Implementing the DDI 2

  • Applications in the Real World - the Counting California experience with the DDI by Juri Stratford, UC Davis & Ilona Einowski, UC Berkeley [PDF]

Session C3: Digital Archiving

  • Archiving Digital Academic heritage (ADA) by Heiko Tjalsma, NIWI, Netherlands Historical Data Archive [PDF]
  • EU initiatives in the digital document management and archiving area by Concha Fernandez de la Puente, European Commission, DG Information Society, Cultural Heritage Applications [PDF]

Session D1: Networking and Infrastructure

  • From data graveyeards to knowledge greenhouses by Jostein Ryssevik, Norwegian Social Science Data Services and Simon Musgrave, UK Data Archive, University of Essex [PDF]
    [accompanying sound file: MetaDataBlues]

Session D2: Metadata Systems

Session D3: Tools for Data Services

  • Se busca: the perfect language. Limber as a 'metaboundary' tool by Myriam Garcia Bernabe, UK Data Archive, University of Essex [PDF]
  • MISSION (Multi-Agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information Over the [inter]Net) by Joanne Lamb, CES, University of Edinburgh [PDF]
Thursday, May 17 - Conference

Session F1: DDI-needs

The DDI: Striking a balance to meet the needs of the data community by Wendy L. Thomas, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota [PDF]

Tabular Data in DDI 1.1 by Emiel Kaper, Statistics Netherlands [PDF]

Session F2: Data Disclosure

Statistical Disclosure Control of Microdata at Statistics Netherlands by Ardo van den Hout, Statistics Netherlands [PDF only ]

Session F3: Qualitative Data

A Discussion of Validity in Qualitative Research by Anne Sofie Fink, Danish Data Archive [PDF]

From the Field to the Net: Cataloguing and Digitising Cultural Research Material by Tiina Mahlamäki, University of Turku [PDF]

The DDI and qualitative data by Arja Kuula, University Tampere, Finnish Social Science Data Archive [PDF]

Session G1: New Archives (Forum)

How to take advantage of existing information about studies when populating a new data archive: the ADP's experience by Janez Štebe & Irena Vipavc, ADP Social Science Data Archive, University of Ljubljana [PDF]

Session H0: Poster Sessions

The Africa Household Survey Databank: experiences in data collection, archiving and dissemination in developing countries by Antoine Simonpietri and Pascal Heus, World Bank [PDF]

New developments at the EDINA UK datacentre by Barbara Morris, Data Library, University of Edinburgh [PDF]

Friday, May 18

Session J1: Leaning &: Teaching

Data Support for Learning and Teaching: the Final Frontier? by Robin Rice, Edinburgh University, Data Library [PDF]

Collaborative working in UK learning and teaching/development projects by Moira Massey & David Medyckyj-Scott, University of Edinburgh, Data Library [PDF]

The Virtual Training Suite: Internet Skills for Learning and Teaching by Heather Dawson, BLPES/SOSIG [PDF]

Promoting effective learning through a data partnership by Andrew J. Beharrell & Andrew Hargrave, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol [PDF]

Session J2: Geo-Data

Dealing with Macrodata - The Case of Regional Statistics by Michal Peleg, Israel Social Science Data Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [PDF]

Session J3: Aggregate Data & Internet (Data)

Accessing OECD publications has never been easier by James Kitchen, Marketing Consultant, OECD [PDF]

Delivering Unique Numeric Data on the Web: Projects, Platforms and Preservation by Ronald C. Jantz, Rutgers University [PDF]

Globalization of information highways and the need for new forms of webdata and metadata by Dusan Soltes, Faculty of Management, Comenius University [PDF]

Session K2: IASSIST

IASSIST COLLABORATION EFFORTS IN AFRICA: Finding solutions to the challenges of international collaborative initiatives in the African Region by Julia Paris, Technikon Witwatersrand [PDF]

Professional associations in transition to virutal communties for collaboration: the case of IASSIST (Part 1) by Repke de Vries, NIWI [PDF]

Professional associations in transition to virutal communties for collaboration: the case of IASSIST (Part 2) by Karsten Boye Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark [PDF]

Session K3: DDI-Tables

CRISTAL Data Objects. An Object Model For Cubic, Raw, or Intermediate STatisticAL data by Emiel Kaper, Statistics Netherlands [PDF]

Using DDI Extensions as Intermediary for Data Storage and Data Display by Patricia Cruse & Marsha Fanshier & Fredric Gey & Margaret Low, California Digital Library, University of California [PDF]

Describing Aggregate Data: The Enigma Variations by Wendy L. Thomas, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota [PDF]

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