Conference 2007 Presentations

Tuesday, May 15

Workshops

Workshop
1:A Crystal Clear Introduction to DDI version 3.0

Workshop 2: American Community Survey: A New Methodology and its Implications for Research

Workshop 3: Introduction to Data Librarianship

Workshop
4: Taking Advantage of DDI 3.0 [PDF]

Workshop 5:Introduction to International Financial Data

Workshop 6: SPSS, Stata, and SAS: Flavours of Statistical Software

Wednesday, May 16

Plenary 1

Data from National Surveys: Access, Analysis and Sharing [PDF]
Dr. Anthony C. Masi, Provost, McGill University

 

Concurrent Sessions

A1: Self Archiving or Self-Storage: Which is it to be?

Chair: Sharon Neary, University of Calgary

• StORe Wars: May the Source and its Outputs be with you [PDF]
  Ken Miller, UK Data Archive; Graham Pryor, University of Edinburgh

• Do-It-Yourself made EASY [PDF]
  Marion Wittenberg and Rutger KRamer, DANS (Data Archiving and Network Services)

• Public Data Up on the Web with SDA
  Charlie Thomas, CSM, Poitical Science, UC Berkeley

• Bargain Bookmarks and Priceless Tags: Socially organizing Social Data
  Kristin Partlo, Carleton College and Rachael Barlow, Trinity College, Hartford

A2: Open Data and the Common Good: Technology Solutions for Difficult Challenges

Chair: Ernie Boyko,, Statistics Canada, Retired

• Background [PDF]
  Pascal Heus, International Household Survey Network

• Data Confidentiality and the Common Good [PDF]
  Julia Lane and Kyle Fennel, National Opinion Research Center

• The Open Data Environment [PDF]
  Chuck Humphrey, Canada Research Data Center, University of Alberta

• Walking the Wire: How Technology Helps Us Achieve the Correct Balance (Open Data Foundation) [PDF]
  Arofan Gregory and Jostein Ryssevik, Open Data Foundation

 

A3: Develoments in Managing Digital Data: Challenges, obstacles and opportunities

Chair: Bo Wandscchneider, University of Guelph

• Appraisal and Selection of Scientific Data for the Long-Term Archive: A Case Study [PDF]
  Robbert R. Downs, Robert S. Chen and W. Christopher Lenhardt, CIESIN, Columbia University

• The 2004 Canadian National Consulation on Access to Scientific Research Data (NCASRD): Recommendations and Implementation of a National Strategy on Data Access [PDF]
  Michel Sabourin, Universite de Montreal, Chair, Canadian National Committee for CODATA

• Threats to Open Data: Implications for Library Services and Collections [PDF]
  Michele Hayslett and John Vikery, North Carolina State University Libraries

 

B1: What a Tangled Web We Weave: Preserving Today's Data for Tomorrow

Chair: Meredith Krug, Federal Reserve Bank

• A Digital Preservation Respnose to Technological Change [PDF]
  Nancy McGovern, ICPSR

• Archiving multi-media and web-based data: issues of representation an sustainability [PDF]
  Louise Corti, U.K. Data Archives

• Renewal of the 1956 Institute website and connectingit to the National Digital Databases [PDF]
  Zoltan Lux, 1956 Institute, Hungary

 

B2: Quantitative Literacy: Assessing Needs, Developing Tools and Delivering the Goods

Chair: Wendy Watkins, Carleton University

• Capacity Building for Quantitative Methods in the UK [PDF]
  Robin Rice, Edina, Univerity of Edinburgh

• Numeracy and Quantitative Reasoning Initiative at the University of Guelph [PDF]
  Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph

• Incorporating Statistical Competancies into University-Level Information Literacy Programs in the Social Sciences [PDF]
  Elizabeth Stephenson, UCLA; Patty Caravello, UCLA Information Literacy Program

B3: Care and Maintenance of a Global Knowledge Community (Panel Discussion)

Chair: San Cannon, Federal Reserve Board

Panelists

• Mary McGrath, Bank of Canada
• Wendy Thomas, Minnesota Population Center
• Karsten Boye Rasmussen, Universityof Southern Denmark [PDF]
• Ernie Boyko, Statistics Canada (Retired)

B4: Building National Data Archives and Using Metadata in Developing Countries

Chair: Julia Lane, National Opinion Research Center

• The role of the Internationl Household Survey Network and the Accelerated Data Program [PDF]
  Oliver Dupriez, International Household Survey Network

• The IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit:2007 Update [PDF]
  Pascal Heus, International Hhousehold Survey Network

• Country experiences in setting up a national data archive [PDF]
  Kizito Kasozi and Thomas Emwanu, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)

C1:
Considering the Data Management Plan: More than Window Dressing?

Chair: Gretchen Gano, New York University Library

• Preparing Public Use Data Files [PDF]
  Felicity Leclere, ICPSR

• Approaches to Data Dissemination and Preservation [PDF]
  Micah Altman, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard-MIT Data Center

• Formalising Data Management Plans for Large Scale Multi-disciplinary Projects [PDF]
  Louise Corti and Susan Cadogan, U.K. Data Archives

C2: DDI in Canada - Where are we at?

Chair: Michel Seguiin, Data Liberation Initiative, Statistics Canada

• An Update on DDI Working Groups at Statistics Canada
  Mary Decuypere, Special Surveys Division, Statistics Canada

• Ontario Universities moving forward with DDI [PDF]
  Michelle Edwards, Data Resource Centre Coordinator, University of Guelph

• Capitalising on Metadata: Tool Develoment Plans [PDF]
  Chuck Humphrey, Data Library Coordinator, University of Alberta

C3: New Discovery Tools: Thinking Outside the Catalogue

Chair: Anna Bombak, University of Alberta

• Searching for Data: Powered by Google [PDF]
  Peter Bern, Syracuse University

• Snippets of Data at a Glance: Using RSS to Deliver Statistics [PDF]
  San Cannon, Federal Reserve Board

• Multilingual Web Services - Possibilities and Pitfalls [PPT] [PDF]
  Taina Jääskeläinen and Tuomas J. Alaterä, Finnish Social Science Data Archive

• University Information System RUSSIA: Bilingual (Russian-English) Search Tools to Intergrate Data and Knowledge Products [PDF]
  Tatyana Yudina, Moscow State University; Anna Bogomolova, Moscow State University

C4: Data Services Mash-ups: Maps, Research and Everything!

Chair: Richard Boily, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski

• Business Data and Challenges for Reference and Collection Development
  Eun-ha Hong, Library, Wilfrid Laurier University; Linda Lowry, Library, Brock University

• Maps that Mash: Daring, Dangerous, or Dumb?
  Rachael Barlow, Trinity College, Hartford

• Creating Historical Digital Census Boundary Maps for Canada - a Pilot Project [PDF]
  Andrey Petrov; Laine Ruus, University of Toronto Libraries

 

Thursday, May 17

Plenary

Building on Health Information Services - Challenges for Open Data [PDF]

Speaker:

• Dr. Denise Lievesley, National Health Service

D1: Access to Linked and Longitudinal Files: Problems and Prospects

Chair: Vince Gray, University of Western Ontario

• Project to set up Service for Seccure Remote Access to Files from Data File Linkages [PDF]
  Madeleine Filion and Line Belanger, Institut de la statistique du Quebec

• Opening up access to Birth Cohort Study Data [PDF]
  Jack Kneeshaw, UK Data Archive

• Medical Research and Data Sharing - How Open Can We Be? [PDF]
  Renate Gertz, AHRC Centre, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

D2: Presenting the New DDI 3.00: What Can it Do for You?

Moderator: Mary Vardigan, Director, DDI Alliance Presentation

• What Can it Do for You? [PDF]
• Taking Advantage of DDI 3.0 [PDF]

Panel:

• Wendy Thomas, Minnesota Poppulation Center
• Arofan Gregory, open Data Foundation
• Joachim Wackero, GESIS-ZUMA
• Meinhard Moschener, GESIS-ZA

D3: Data Access Questions: Open and Shut

Chair:
Maxine Tedesco, University of Lethbridge

• Licensed to Distil - Data of Course [PDF]
  Susan Cadogan, UK Data Archive
  
  
• When Data Aren't Open: Restricted-Use Data: Trials Tribulations and Triumphs [PDF]
  Kiet Bang, Population Research Institute, Penn State and
  Jennifer Darragh, Virginia Commonwelath University

• Creative Commons and Data Dissemination at an Academic Data Center: Issues and Potential Benefits [PDF]
  W. Christopher Lenhardt, Robert Chen and Robert Downs, CIESIN

• Accessing Eurostat Data [PDF]
  Tanvi Desai, London School of Economics

 

E1: Government Data in Legacy Formats: Approaches in Ensuring Acces and Preservation

Chair: Tess Trost, Texas Tech University

• Ensuing Long-Term Access to Government Documents Through Virtualization [PDF]
  Geoffrey Brown, Indiana University

• Migrating Government Information from CD-ROMs: Scaling a Pilot Project [PDF]
  Julie LInden, Yale University; Gretchen Gano, New York University Library

• Virtual Machines in the Data Lab [PDF]
  Harrison Dekker, UC Berkeley Library

 

E2: The CESSDA Experience: A Royal Mountain Road to Success

Chair: Hans Jorgen Marker, Danish Data Archive

• Strengthening the Infrastructure -CESSDA Incorporated (Sub-title: You Got to Have Friends) [PDF]
  Ken Miller, U.K. Data Archives

• Door of Perception - The CESSDA Portal (Sub-title: Break on Through to the Other Side) [PDF]
  Mari Kleemola, Finnish Social Science Data Archive

• The Essence of theNet - CESSDA future (You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet) [PDF]
  Vigdis Kvalheim, The Norwegian Social Science Data Services

E3: Strength in Numbers: Building Collaborative Services for Users 

Chair: Diane Geraci, Harvard University

• "The data is plentiful and easily available"- H. A. Gleason, Jr./Cross-Pollenization of Collections, Skills, and Service Philosophies among Data Archives and Libraries
  Elizabeth Stephenson, Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA; and Kris Kasianovitz, Young Research Library, UCLA

• Please Use our Data [PDF]
  Jane Fry, Carleton University, Ottawa; Monia Bergeron, D.L.I., Statistics Canada

• The World on a Plate: Making Data Digestible [PDF]
  Nicholas Syrotiuk, ESDS International, University of Manchester

E4: Prospects for DDI - What the Evidence and Experience Tell Us

Chair: Ron Nakao, Stanford University

• New Frontiers: Can Panel Studies Go DDI? First Experiences in documenting the German Socio-Economic Panel Study with DDI 3.0 [PDF]
  Jan Goebel, DIW Berlin / SOEP; and Joachim Wackerow, GESIS/ZUMA (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology)

• Documenting, Maintaining, and Sharing Standard Variables with DDI Version 3.0: the ISCO example [PDF]
  Joachim Wackerow, GESIS/ZUMA (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology)

• Whither DDI - Status and Prospects in Canada [PDF]
  Bill Bradley, Health Canada (Retired)

 

 

Friday, May 18

Plenary

In Pursuit of Statistical Literacy: Two National Examples

Speakers

• Reija Helenius, Head of Development Statistics, Finland [PDF]
• David Roy, Past Director, Marketing and Information Services, Statistics Canada [PDF]

 

F1: Data-PASS: Collaborating to Preserve At-Risk Data

Chair: Amy Pienta, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan

Panelists:

• Darrell Donakowski, University of Michigan  [PDF]

• Jonathon Crabtree, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [PDF]

• Marc Maynard, University of Connecticut

• Micah Altman, Harvard University [PDF]

F2: Data Beyond Numbers: Using Data Creatively for Research 

Chair: Mary Luebbe, University of British Columbia

• The data is out there. Analyzing from electronic tracks of behavior [PDF]
  Karsten Boye Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark

• The Importance of Data Visualization in Data Literacy [PDF]
  Janet Stamatel, University at Albany

• Punishment and Reward for Research Data Sharing [PDF]
  Jinfang Niu, University of Michigan

F3: Extending IASSIST through Outreach 

Chair: Ernie Boyko, Statistics Canada, Retired

• Outreach to Schools of Information Science
  Jen Darragh and Paula Lackie

• Measuring IASSIST Against Science's Sine Qua Non:  Making Scientific Knowledge Understandable, Relevant and Useful
  Bill Block, University of Minnesota; Paula Lackie, Carleton College

• IASSIST Outreach Activities in Russia [PDF]
  Tatyana Yudina, Moscow State University

• Preparing Datasets for a National Response [PPT] [PDF]
  Daniel Epeh, Ghana AIDS Commission

 

G1: Harmonizing Data and Documentation: Best Practice Examples

Chair: Mary Vardigan, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan

• Ex-Ante Harmonization Across 30 Counties: Lesson Learned
  Beth-Ellen Pennell, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

• Harmonization of the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES)
  Sue Ellen Hansen, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

• Aging in Three Countries: A New Data Resource for Comparative Retirement Research [PDF]
  Amy Pienta, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan.

 

G2: Does Anyone have the Question to My Answer: Survey Data Question Banks 

Chair: Gail Curry, University of Northern British Columbia

• Improving Data Services by the Creation of a Question Database [PDF]
  Nanna Floor Clausen, Danish Data Archive

• Displaying Survey Questionnaires to Data Users: Accuracy versus Clarity [DOC] [PDF]
  Graham Hughes, ESRC Question Bank, University of Surrey

 

 

G3: Towards a National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: Local Data Sharing Issues and Resources  [PDF]

Chair: Rebecca Blash, The Brookings Institution

• Guide to Administrative Data Records Library: Past, Present, and Future
  Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve

• Statistical Metadata and NNIP Data Sharing Guide
  Kathryn Pettit, The Urban Institute

• NICS: Issues and Resources
  Dan Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Laura Smith, The Brookings Institution

 

G4: New Archives

Chair: Kathleen Matthews , University of Victoria

• Qualitative Data Archiving in the Czech Republic [PDF]
  Tomas Cizek, Sociological Data Archive, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

• Opening Access to Indigenous Data in Australia [PDF]
  Sophie Holloway and Margi Wood, Australian Social Science Data Archive

• Open data: new possibilities for knowledge communities [PDF]
  Larisa Kosova , Russian Sociological Data Archive, NISP