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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

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)
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