IASSIST 2002
 

Accelerating Access  

Program

MONDAY, JUNE 10

10:00 am - 4:00 pm IASSIST Administrative Meeting
Location: Room 19 Bishop Center, boxed lunches provided

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 11

Registration

8:00 am - 7:00 pm Registration South Campus Residence Hall

Concurrent Workshops

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Developing a GIS Data Services Program
Presenter: Steve Morris (North Carolina State University)
  Location: Room 203, Monteith Building

9:00 am -12:00 pm Finding, Evaluating and Using Numeric Data
Presenter: Julie Linden (Yale University)
  Location: Room 209, Monteith Building

1:00 pm - 3:45 pm An Introduction to Arcview
Presenter: Steven Citron-Pousty (Yale University)
  Location: Room 203, Monteith Building

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm DDI in Action: the Innovative Data Library using Nesstar Knowledge Products
Presenters: Simon Musgrave (UKDA) and Jostein Ryssevik (NSD), Nesstar Ltd.
  Location: Room 203, Monteith Building

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm Publications Committee Dodd Center's Konover Administrative Conference Room

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Welcome Reception South Campus Ballroom
Sponsored by the Homer Babbidge Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Center, and the Roper Center
A full array of hors d'oevres, carving station, and cash bar.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

7:15 am - 8:15 am Breakfast South Campus Dining Hall

8:30 am - 9:00 am WELCOME Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Ann Green, IASSIST President

Paul Kobulnicky, Vice Chancellor for Information Services
Homer Babbidge Library
University of Connecticut

Richard C. Rockwell, Executive Director, The Roper Center & Institute for Social Inquiry

9:00 am - 10:15 am Plenary Session

The Data Archive in the Twenty-First Century - The View from ICPSR

Presenter: Myron Gutmann, Executive Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

10:15 am - 10:40 am Coffee Dodd Center Patio

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Concurrent Sessions A / B / C

Session A: eXtreme Intelligence: Pushing Expert Systems to Their Limits
Location: Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Chair: Jostein Ryssevik, Norwegian Social Science Data Services

Ken Reed (Deakin University), Steven McEachern (University Of Ballarat)

kreed@deakin.edu.au

The Prospects for "Intelligent Research"

Robert P. Wozniak (Minnesota Population Center)

wozniak@socsci.umn.edu

Emerging from the Quagmire: Building Expert Systems Technologies for the Social Sciences

Edward Brent (Idea Works, Inc.)
Albert F. Anderson (Public Data Queries, Inc.)

brente@missouri.edu

Clearing the Metadata Hurdle for Inexperienced Users: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach


Session B:
The New Frontier for Archives
Location: Video Theater II, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: JoAnn Dionne, University of Michigan

Thomas E. Brown (NARA)

thomas.brown@nara.gov

Public Opinion Data in the National Archives of the United States

Louise Corti's paper (UK Data Archive) presented by Kevin Schürer

cortl@essex.ac.uk

Enhancing Access to Qualitative Data Resources: Edwardians Online Project

Tom W. Smith (NORC)

smith@norcmail.uchicago.edu

In Praise of Data Archives: Finding and recovering the 1963 Kennedy Assassination Study


Session C:
Research Portals, or the Truth is Out There
Location: Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Fay Booker, University of Chicago

Anne Sophie Fink (Danish Data Archives)

asf@dda.dk

An Internet Portal for Danish Research

Tatyana Yudina (Moscow State University)

yudina@mail.cir.ru

Scientific Information Infrastructure for Social Research in Russia

Jessica Eustace (University of Manchester)

jess.eustace@man.ac.uk

Reaching Your End-user with MIMAS

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch South Campus Dining Hall

1:45 pm - 5:00 pm Poster Session Homer Babbidge Library Auriemma Reading Room

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Dinner South Campus Dining Hall

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Polo Match and Ice Cream Social Horse Barn Hill Arena

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

7:15 am - 8:15 am Breakfast South Campus Dining Hall

8:30 am - 10:00 am Plenary Session Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium

An International Perspective on Confidentiality and Access to Governmentally Produced Social Science Data

Moderator: Margaret Adams, NARA
Participants: Pat Doyle, US Bureau of the Census
  Doug Norris, Director General of the Census and Demographic Statistics Branch at Statistics Canada
  Professor John M. Abowd, Director, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research and Distinguished Research Fellow, U.S. Census Bureau

10:00 am - 10:25 am Coffee Dodd Center Patio

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions D / E / F


Session D: Working Together to Accelerate Access: Data on the Fast Track
Location: Video Theater II, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Robin Rice, Edinburgh University

Jason (Xiao) Yu (Indiana University)

xjyu@indiana.edu

Building Collaborative Data Services Upon Dispersed Resources: A Collaboration Model for Accelerating Data Access at Indiana University

Ken Miller (UK Data Archive)

millk@essex.ac.uk

A Different Kind of Era – The European Research Area

Julie Linden (Yale University)
Steven Citron-Pousty
Ann Green

julie.linden@yale.edu

StatCat: Building a Statistical Data Finder


Session E: GIS Mobilized: One if by Land; Two if by Sea; Three if by Fiber Optics
Location: Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Chair: Patrick McGlamery, University of Connecticut

Fredric Gey (UC Berkeley)
Michael Buckland
Aitao Chen
Ray Larson

gey@ucdata.bekeley.edu

Geographic Information Retrieval: Searching Text and Data via Common Geography

Richard Sacher (University of Delaware)

dsacher@udel.edu

The USGS National Map: Delaware Framework DataMIL Pilot Project

Steven Morris (North Carolina State University)

steven_morris@ncsu.edu

Integrating Data Resources with the Library Catalog


Session F: Poll Data: Enabling Greater Access and Re-use
Location: Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Richard Rockwell, The Roper Center

Marc Maynard (Roper Center)

mmaynard@ropercenter.uconn.edu

Enhancing Access: Roper Center Efforts Towards Data Integration

Shawn Marie Pelak (ICPSR)

spelak@icpsr.umich.edu

Encouraging Secondary Analysis of Public Opinion Poll Data

Kevin Schürer (UK Data Archive)

schurer@essex.ac.uk

Enriching Access to Opinion Poll Data: The Experience of the UK Data Archive

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch Bishop Center
Business Meeting and Presentation of New IASSIST Web Site

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions G / H / I


Session G:
Tuning Up Your Web Site: Increasing Its Usability
Location: Video Theater II, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Ron Nakao, Stanford University

Robin Rice (Edinburgh University) rice@holyrood.ed.ac.uk Electronic collaboration with distant partners: the (success) story of the IASSIST web action group

Stuart Smith (University of Manchester)

stuart.smith@man.ac.uk

Creating Accessible Style and Content for MIMAS Social Sciences Web Pages

Colleen Blessing (US Dept of Energy)
Marianne Zawitz (US Dept of Justice)

colleen.blessing@eia.doe.gov

zawitzm@ojp.usdoj.gov

Web Usability: The Key to Success on the Web


Session H:
M-Squared: Metadata Matters
Location: Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Ann Green, Yale University

Karen Brannen (University of Edinburgh)

k.brannen@ed.ac.uk

MetaNet: Standardising Statistical Metadata Methodology

Dusan Soltes (Comenius University)

dusan.soltes@fm.uniba.sk

Harmonization and Integration of Metadata: An Urgent Task for the Future Efficient Use of the Web

Daniel Gillman (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)

gillman_d@bls.gov

XML: Schemas, Names and Confusion


Session I:
Make It Faster, Make It Bigger: Developments in Data Delivery Systems
Location: Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Chair: Bo Wandschneider, University of Guelph

Micah Altman (Harvard University)

micah_altman@harvard.edu

New Developments in Open Source Digital Library Tools

Vince Gray (University of Western Ontario)
Moira Russell?

vince@uwo.ca

The Internet Data Library System, Version 2: A Canadian Data Delivery Experience

O.W. Duke-Williams (University of Leeds)
J.C.H. Stillwell

oliver@geog.leeds.ac.uk

Web-based Access to Complex UK Census Data-Sets

4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Traditional New England Clambake at the Seaman's Inn, Mystic, CT

9:30 pm - ??? Turkey Action
Location: South Campus Residence Hall, First floor

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

7:15 am - 8:15 am Breakfast South Campus Dining Hall

8:30 am - 10:00 am Plenary Session Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium

Recent Developments in Data Access and Implications for Data Archives

Moderator: Karsten Boye Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
Participants: Jen Darragh, Pennsylvania State University
  Lisa Neidert, University of Michigan
  Mary Vardigan, ICPSR
  Kevin Schürer, UK Data Archive

10:00 am - 10:25 am Coffee Dodd Center Patio

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions J / K / L


Session J:
A New Topical Data Archive: Building a Research Infrastructure for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies in the U.S.
Location: Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Ann Gray, Princeton University

Elizabeth Bennett (Princeton University)

ezb@princeton.edu

Academics, Journalists, Policy Makers and Artists: Mapping One Road for All

Ann Gray (Princeton University)

agray@princeton.edu

Cultural Policy and the Arts: Overview of the Field

Vernon Leighton (Princeton University)

vleighto@Princeton.EDU

Developing a new Data Archive in a Time of Developing Standards


Session K:
Putting DDI on the Road: What's in the Metadata Toolbox?
Location: Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Chair: Bill Block, University of Minnesota

Mike Haarman (University of Minnesota)

mhaarma@pop.umn.edu

DDI Tools: The MN perspective

Tom Piazza (UC Berkeley)

piazza@csm.berkeley.edu

DDI Files from New Data Collections

Janet Eisenhauer Smith (University of Wisconsin)

jeisenha@ssc.wisc.edu

A User’s Perspective on DDI

Mary Vardigan (ICPSR)

maryv@icpsr.umich.edu

ICPSR’s Use of DDI

Jostein Ryssevik (NSD), Nesstar Ltd. jostein.ryssevik@nsd.uib.no Title TBA


Session L:
Accelerated Learning Environments: A Discussion on Collaboration & Dissemination of Teaching Materials
Location: Video Theater II, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Paula Lackie, Carleton College

Grant Blank (American University)

grant.blank@acm.org

Preparing a New Generation of Researchers: Introductory Sociology & Research Methods

John Korey (California State Polytechnic University)

jlkorey@csupomona.edu

Sharing Instructional Materials Through the Web

Tuomas J. Alaterä (Finnish Social Science Data Archive)
Sami Borg

tuomas.alatera@uta.fi

MOTV: Research Methods and Data Resources for Social Sciences ? A Case if Finland

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch South Campus Dining Hall

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions M / N / O


Session M:
Delivering the U.K. Census: Web-Based Access
Location: Video Theater II, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Melanie Wright, UK Data Archive

Lucy Bell (UK Data Archive)

lajbell@essex.ac.uk

Let us Bring You to Your Census: Recent Developments in UK Census Data Provision

Jackie Carter (University of Manchester )
Cressida Chappell (UK Data Archive)

j.carter@man.ac.uk

cress@essex.ac.uk

Learning and teaching with the UK Census

Mark Brown (University of Manchester )

mark.brown@man.ac.uk

Web-based Access to the 2001 Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR’s) from the UK Census: Opportunities for Learning and Teaching

Hamish James (UK Data Archive)
Cressida Chappell
Mark Merry
Gustavo de Souza

hamish@essex.ac.uk

Stuck on the Census: UK Historical Censuses Online


Session N:
Watching DDI In Action: Implementation of a Standard
Location: Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium
Chair: Fred Gey, UCDATA and UC Berkeley

Ron Dekker (NWO)

ron.dekker@nwo.nl

Developing a DDI Back-Office

Michelle Edwards (University of Guelph)

edwardsm@uoguelph.ca

Trials and Tribulations of developing DDI-Compliant Codebooks at the University of Guelph

Bill Bradley (Health Canada)
Jostein Ryssevik
Simon Musgrave
Prem Khosla
bbradley@hc-sc.gc.ca
jostein.ryssevik@nsd.uib.no
simon@essex.ac.uk
prem_khosla@hc-sc.gc.ca

WebDAIS/DDMS - A new version of NESSTAR


Session O:
The Faster it Moves, The Harder it is to Preserve
Location: Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Chair: Diane Geraci, UK Data Archive

Michael Carlson (NARA)

michael.carlson@nara.gov

NARA's High Capacity Magnetic Media Study

Janet Vavra (ICPSR) jan@icpsr.umich.edu Digital Preservation: Maintaining History's Rear-View Mirror
Diane Garner (Harvard College Library) dgarner@fas.harvard.edu Designing an e-journal archive: report of a planning project at Harvard University

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Closing Ceremonies at Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Dinner South Campus Dining Hall

(4:15 pm - 6:00 pm Publications Committee Dodd Center's Konover Administrative Conference Room)

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

DDI Committee Meeting
9:00 am - 4:00 pm DDI Committee Meeting
Location: Room 119, Monteith Building, lunch served

Outing to Old Sturbridge Village
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Bus Departure/Arrival: Nathan Hale Inn

Last modified June 6, 2002