"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.
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