Call For Papers

Conference Themes

Accelerating Access is a theme that characterizes the ever-increasing demand for quantitative and qualitative data through the Internet. Our key goal as data providers is to ensure user communities can gain access to and effectively use quantitative and qualitative resources. The conference this year will focus on the capabilities both of Internet technology and of the wider data community in providing support to and partnering with the research and education infrastructure. The influence of evolving web environments for data producers, data archives/data libraries, and end-users will be a key area of exploration. The conference will include papers on collaboration between data professionals and researchers in metadata dissemination and in integration projects, particularly those that have evolved from emerging standards for describing data and documentation. We will also examine the legal and political barriers to web-based data access, and the role of virtual data access in new and emerging economies.

• The impact of "born digital" data
• Collaborative metadata dissemination and integration projects
• Data lifespan and integrity in web environments
• DDI standards and new developments
• Documenting qualitative resources to enhance access
• Future of data warehousing and data mining
• GIS and data access
• Impact of Internet technology on social science research methods
• New research/archive networks
• Political implications of data access in virtual communities
• Preparation of complex data for multiple user audiences
• Preserving and accessing research content
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Relationships among archives and the social science research community
• Universal access to public data
• Web based data access for research and teaching
• Library subscriptions, licensing and data acquisition policies
• Legal barriers to Internet-based data access

The deadline for paper, session, and poster/demonstration proposals has been extended to January 18, 2002. The Conference Program Committee will send notification of the acceptance of proposals by February 1, 2002. Session proposals should contain information on the focus of the session, the organizer/moderator and possible session participants. It will be the responsibility of the session organizer/moderator to secure session participants. Please send submission including proposed title and an abstract (recommended length 150 words) to: iassist@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

For the most current information check the IASSIST 2002 conference web site at:http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002 or contact the Program Committee at: iassist@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2002
Notification of proposal acceptance: February 1, 2002
IASSIST 2002 Conference: June 11-15, 2002

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