Conference 2004 Presentations

Tuesday, May 25

Workshop 1: Using Atlas-ti to explore qualitative data [PDF] 
Workshop 1: Tutorial [PDF]
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 DDI 501: Increasing Proficiency and Efficiency with DDI [PDF]
Workshop 4: Class exercises zipped file
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

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)

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 [PPT] [PDF]
  Ann Green (Yale University), Julie Linden (Yale University)
  
  
• A Digital Library in a Multilingual Environment [PDF]
  Cor van der Meer (Fryske Akademy)

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 [PDF]
  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)

A3: Collaboration among Data Providers: Strength in Numbers

Chair: Ernie Boyko

• Data Curation and Digital Preservation: A View from the UK (Part 1) [PDF]
  Data Curation and Digital Preservation: A View from the UK (Part 2) [PDF]
  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)

B1: Assessing User Needs and Data Services

Chair: Donna Tolson

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

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))

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) [PDF]
• Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)

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

Chair: Myron Gutmann

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

C2: Mapping the Past with GIS

Chair: Steve Citron-Pousty

• Counting Cows and Cabbages: Web-based Extraction and Delivery of Geo-referenced Data [PDF]
  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)

C3: Data Management Infrastructures: Advances in Processing and Dissemination

Chair: Chuck Humphrey

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

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 [PDF]
  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 [PDF]
  Rob Grim (Institute for Labour Studies, Tilburg University)

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 [PDF]
  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)

D3: Ensuring Data Quality: Aim High

Chair: Luuk Schreven

• Elementary Data Quality Elements [PDF]
  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)

E1: DDI in Practice

Chair: Jostein Ryssevik

• Developing the DDI and Its Applications in Taiwan [PDF]
  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 [PDF]
  Louise Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex), Libby Bishop (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
  
  
• No Longer Lost in Translation [PDF]
  Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

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" [PDF]
  Paula Lackie (Carleton College)

Poster Sessions

DDCN: Data on Transition and Emerging Market Economies on the Web
Cristina Negrut and Patricia Loh (William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School)

SOEPINFO
Jan Goebel (DIW German Institute for Economic Research)
Authors: Ingo Sieber, Dr. John P. Haisken-DeNew

Steps Towards Full Integration of Programs at the Roper Center
Cindy Teixeira (Roper Center, University of Connecticut)

EXANDA: A Web-based Utility to Explore and Analyze Data
Joachim Wackerow (ZUMA -- Centre for Survey Research and Methodology)

Accent on Image at Edinburgh
Alison Bayley, Peter Burnhill, Stuart Macdonald & Robin Rice (EDINA National Datacentre & University Data Library, Edinburgh)

Demonstration of NARA's Access to Archival Databases (AAD) Resource
Peggy Adams, Tom Brown, and Michael Carlson (National Archives and Records Administration)

CPANDA
Ann Gray (Princeton University)

Repurposing Social Science Data for Use in Teaching and Learning
Louise Corti ( UK Data Archive, University of Essex )

NESSTAR
Jostein Ryssevik (NESSTAR, Ltd.)

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)

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

Chair: Mary J. Lee

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

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 [PDF]
  Daniel Edelstein (Princeton University), Kristi Thompson (Princeton University)
  
  
• Filling the Gap: Doing Stats in the Library
  Susan Czarnocki (McGill University)

F3: Facilitating Data Access and Analysis

Chair: Bo Wandschneider

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

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 [PDF]
  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)

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 [PDF]
  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 [PDF]
  Mary J. Lee (Laboratory for Social Research, University of Notre Dame)

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 [PDF]
  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)...