Conference 2005 Presentations

Conference
Dinner Speech
Professor Derek Law
(Librarian and
Head of Information Resources Directorate,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

Tuesday, May 24 (Pre-conference workshops)

Morning:

• W4:
  Building a Data Library or Data Observatory on the Web Using Nesstar
  Technology (PDF)
  Jostein Ryssevik, Margaret Ward and Cliff Dive
  (Nesstar, Ltd.)

• W7: DDI 102: Codebook Creation and Beyond

Afternoon:

• W2: Training the Trainers- Gearing Up the Next Generation (PPT) (PDF) (Handout
  - pdf)
  Ernie Boyko (Statistics Canada - retired) & Chuck
  Humphrey (University of Alberta)

• W5:
  Data Publishing with Nesstar Publisher (PDF)
  Margaret Ward,
  Jostein Ryssevik, and Cliff Dive (Nesstar, Ltd.)

• W6:
  Using Streaming Geospatial Data Sources (PDF)
  Steve Morris (North
  Carolina State University) & Guy McGarva, James Reid (EDINA,
  University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday, May 25

Plenary

Chairs: Peter Burnhill and Cor Van der Meer

• The
  Need for Rigour and Accessibility in Comparative
  Research (PDF)
  Roger Jowell (Professor of Sociology and Director
  of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University)

Parallel Sessions

A1: Cross-national Socio-economic Data: Boundaries of
Evidence

Chair: Celia Russell

• Understanding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
  indicators -- how to find and interpret the evidence on target
  achievement
  Robert Johnston (United Nations Statistics
  Division)

• Cross
  national and intergovernmental data: paying for one stop
  shopping (PDF)
  Bobray Bordelon (Princeton University
  Library)

• The
  production and presentation of statistics of unemployment: comparability
  issues (PDF)
  John Adams (Napier University), Ray Thomas (Open
  University)

• The
  World on a plate: building and supporting a new community of
  international data users (PDF)
  Keith Cole (ESDS International,
  University of Manchester)

A2: National Initiatives in Coordinating Preservation: Working
Together

Chair: Peter Burnhill

• Data-PASS/NDIIPP:
  A new effort to harvest our history (PDF)
  Caroline
  Arms (Library of Congress)

• UK
  strategies for digital preservation and digital
  curation (PDF)
  Chris Rusbridge (Digital Curation Centre,
  University of Edinburgh)

• North
  Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project/NDIIPP: collection and
  preservation of at-risk digital geospatial data (PDF)
  Steven P.
  Morris (North Carolina State University Library)

• Data-PASS/NDIIPP:
  A new effort to harvest our history (PDF)
  Darrell
  Donakowski (ICPSR, University of Michigan)

A3: Enlightened Policies: Improving Collections and
Acquisitions

Chair: Taylor, Marcia

• Collecting
  evidence about studies to guide acquisition policy (PDF)
  Janez
  Stebe (Social Science Data Archive, University of Ljubljana,
  Slovenia)

• Setting
  up acquisition policies for a new data archive (PDF)
  Sami Borg,
  Helena Laaksonen (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, University of
  Tampere)

• Redesigning
  and formalising national Data Archives' collection development
  policies (PDF)
  Amy Pienta (ICPSR, University of Michigan), Louise
  Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

• Identifying
  quality acquisitions from a data deluge (PDF)
  Zoe Bliss (AHDS
  History)

B1: Cross-national Social Data: Building Common Ground

Chair: Robert Johnston

• NGO and IGO funded surveys: lessons from Vietnam
  Daniel
  Tsang (University of California, Irvine)

• Data
  archive in developing countries: preservation and dissemination of
  microdata as an instrument for better development
  results (PDF)
  Olivier Dupriez (The World Bank, Development Data
  Group)

• DevInfo:
  A common database (PDF)
  Trevor Croft, Nicolas Pron (UNICEF), Kris
  Oswalt (Community Systems Foundation)

B2: Panel: An Inside View of DDI Version 3.0

Chair: Jostein Ryssevik

• Inside
  view of DDI Version 3.0: Structural Reform Group
  report (PDF)
  Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, University
  of Minnesota), Arofan Gregory (AEON Consulting), Tom Piazza (University
  of California - Berkeley, Computer-Assisted Survey Methods
  Program)

• DDI
  Comparative Data Working Group: introduction and
  status (PDF)
  Oliver Watteler (Zentralarchiv)
  Additional
  discussants: Ken Miller (UK Data Archive), I-Lin Kuo (ICPSR, University
  of Michigan), Mark Diggory (Harvard-MIT Data Center), Achim Wackerow
  (Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA))

B3 : Building Data Services: Evidence from the Users

Chair: Bo Wandschneider

• New
  user needs will change 'best practice' of data archive
  services (PDF)
  Irena Vipavc Brvar (Slovene Social Science Data
  Archive)

• Meeting
  the demand for data professionals (PDF)
  Jane Fry (Data Centre,
  MacOdrum Library, Carleton University), Ernie Boyko (Nesstar)

• Building
  a data archive that meets the needs of both researchers and
  non-researchers: how CPANDA addresses this challenge (PDF)
  Larry
  McGill (Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, Princeton
  University)

C1: The Life Course of Survey Data: Evidence from New Tools

Chair: Mary Vardigan

• Demonstration
  of a Blaise Instrument Documentation System (PDF)
  Gina-Qian Cheung
  (Institution for Social Research, University of Michigan)

• Demonstration
  of the interactive codebook for the National Survey of Family Growth
  (PDF)
  I-Lin Kuo (ICPSR, University of
  Michigan)

• Documentation
  in Blaise: past, present and future (PDF)
  Lon Hofman (Statistics
  Netherlands)

• CASES instrument documentation
  Tom Piazza (University of
  California, Berkeley)

C3: New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of
Evidence

Chair: Boye Rasmussen, Karsten

• Improving
  social science data and statistical services through
  assessment (PDF)
  Joel Herndon (Duke University, Perkins Library),
  Alexandra Cooper (Duke University, Social Science Research Institute
  (SSRI))

• Data libraries: the view from the other side
  Margaret
  Law (University of Alberta Library)

• Data
  archiving at the US Central Bank (PDF)
  Linda Powell (Board of
  Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Thursday, 26 May 2005

Parallel Sessions

D1: Data Shaping the Neighbourhood: Localised Insight

Chair: Alison Bayley

• Scottish
  Neighbourhood Statistics and the Scottish Index of Multiple
  Deprivation (PDF)
  Tracey Stead, John Fraser, Robert Williams
  (Office of the Chief Statistician, Scottish Executive)

• Barriers
  and opportunities for remote access to farm business and farm household
  data (PDF)
  Philip Friend (Economic Research Service, United States
  Department of Agriculture)

• Characterizing
  rural England using GIS (PDF)
  Anne Owen, Steve Cinderby, Meg Huby
  (University of York)

D2: Enriching Metadata: the Lifecycle Perspective

Chair: Ann Green

• Survey
  metadata documentation (PDF)
  Sue Ellen Hansen (Institution for
  Social Research, University of Michigan)

• Providing
  context for understanding: the data life cycle (PDF)
  Elizabeth
  Hamilton (University of New Brunswick)

• Fitting
  the life course of the General Social Survey Cycle 17 in the Data
  Documentation Initiative (PDF)
  Irene Wong (University of
  Alberta)

• The
  Xtensible Past: XML as a means for easy access to historical research
  data and a strategy for digital preservation (PDF)
  Annelies G.C.W.
  van Nispen, Rutger Kramer (Netherlands Institute for Scientific
  Information Services (NIWI))

D3: Tools to Support Data Services: New Approaches

Chair: Tanvi Desai

• The SDA online analysis system - recent enhancements
  Tom
  Piazza (University of California, Berkeley)

• SOEPMENU:
  A menu-driven Stata/SE interface for accessing the German Socio-Economic
  Panel (PDF)
  Mathias Sinning, John P. Haisken-DeNew
  (SOEPMENU)

• Reusing
  information on websites (PDF)
  Sam Smith (CCSR)

D4: New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of
Evidence

Chair: Eleanor Read

• Increased
  accessibility of datasets and statistical resources through
  faculty-library collaboration (PDF)
  Lynda Duke (Illinois Wesleyan
  University)

• Capturing
  meta data on a different kind of data (PDF)
  Mary B. McGrath, Mary
  Jo Roy (Bank of Canada)

• e-Government
  Information: the same old problem -- newly digitized (PDF)
  Alastair
  J. Allan (University of Sheffield Library)

E1: Transforming Social Data into Information

Chair: Tess Trost

• Information
  issues in health networked organisations: cooperative work and new
  relationships (PDF)
  Christian Bourret (ISIS, Université de Marne
  la Vallée)

• Bridging information and political science: investigating
  empirical evidence on political information seeking on the internet,
  2000-2004
  Alice Robbin (Indiana University)

• Digitising
  Dutch Censuses, 1795-1971; Preliminary results & work in
  progress (PDF)
  Luuk Schreven (Netherlands Institute for Scientific
  Information Services (NIWI))

E2: Tools for Preservation: Integration and Assessment

Chair: Michal Paneth-Peleg

• Preserving
  and improving the access to large and complex household
  surveys (PDF)
  Jostein Ryssevik (Nesstar Limited), Pascal Heus
  (World Bank), Olivier Dupriez (World Bank), Mark Diggory (Harvard
  University)

• The DataWeb/VDC integration
  Micah Altman (Harvard-MIT
  Data Centre), Cavan Capps (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

• An
  assessment of Virtual Data Center as a tool for dissemination and
  digital preservation of social science data (PDF)
  Harrison Dekker
  (University of California, Berkeley, Doe/Moffit Libraries)

E3: Enlightening Access Control: New Methods

Chair: Atle Alvheim

• Issues
  in federated identity management (PDF)
  Sandy Shaw (EDINA,
  University of Edinburgh)

• Shibbolising
  UK Census and ESDS services (PDF)
  Lucy Bell (UK Data Archive,
  University of Essex)

• The
  Research Data Centre Program: A fundamental element of the social
  research infrastructure in Canada (PDF)
  Gustave Goldmann
  (Statistics Canada)

E4: Discovering a Profession: the Accidental Data Librarian

Chair: Cindy Severt

• Looking
  for data directions? Ask a data librarian (PDF)
  Luis Martinez
  (London School of Economics Data Library), Stuart Macdonald (Edinburgh
  University Data Library)

• “You’re
  a what?”: taking stock of the data profession (PDF)
  Paul H. Bern
  (Syracuse University)

• First
  data, then docs (PDF)
  Jeffrey Bullington (University of
  Kansas)

• Establishing
  a data service: The Numeric & GeoSpatial Data Service
  Proposal (PDF)
  Tiffani Conner (University of Connecticut)

F1: Timeless Social Data: Past, Present & Future

Chair: Jane Roberts

• Measuring
  'the quantum of happiness': ensuring access to the first (& second)
  Statistical Account (PDF)
  Peter Burnhill (EDINA National Data
  Centre & Edinburgh University Data Library), Ann Matheson (Hon.
  Editor, Statistical Accounts -- formerly Keeper of Books,
  National Library of Scotland)

• The
  history of the social survey – the social survey in
  history (PDF)
  Anne Sofie Fink (Danish Data Archives)

• Industrial classification and the depiction of open source–based
  production data
  Fernando Elichirigoity (University of Illinois),
  Cheryl Knott Malone (University of Arizona)

F2: Metadata Enlightenment: Mark-up Standards and Issues

Chair: Mari Kleemola

• DDI
  and data (PDF)
  Hans Jørgen Marker (Dansk Data Arkiv)

• DDI:
  does it have a life beyond IASSIST? (PDF)
  Ernie Boyko
  (Nesstar)

• Smart
  qualitative data: methods and community tools for data
  mark-up (PDF)
  Louise Corti, Elizabeth Bishop (UKDA, University of
  Essex)

F3: Training for the Use of Data: Evidence from the
Trenches

Chair: Marilyn Andrews

• Introducing
  data history to students (PDF)
  Michelle Edwards (University of
  Guelph)

• Training
  subject librarians to provide data services (PDF)
  Katherine
  McNeill-Harman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Demystifying
  data reference (PDF)
  Daniel Edelstein, Kristi Thompson (Princeton
  University)

Conference
Dinner Speech
Professor Derek Law
(Librarian and
Head of Information Resources Directorate,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

Friday, 27 May 2005

Plenary

Chair: Melanie Wright

• Testing
  Social Change (PDF)
  John Curtice (Politics and Director of the
  Social Statistics Lab at Strathclyde University, Co-Director, British
  General Election Study, Deputy Director ESRC Centre for Research into
  Elections and Social Trends (CREST))

Parallel Sessions

G1: Topical Data Collections: Cultural Gems

Chair: Cor Van der Meer

• Upgrading
  ABC News/Washington Post data collections using DDI and legacy databases (PDF)
  Mark Maynard (Roper Center for Public Opinion
  Research)

• The
  integrated photo-documentary online database (PDF)
  Zoltan Lux (The
  Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution)

• ASPECT: a digital library approach to Scottish electoral
  data
  Jane Barton, Alan Dawson, Andrew Williamson (Centre for
  Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde)

• The
  North American Jewish Data Bank: a rare population
  archive (PDF)
  Cindy Teixeira (Roper Center for Public Opinion
  Research, University of Connecticut)

G2: Gaining New Insight from Tables and Aggregate Data: Pivotal
News

Chair: Micehlle Edwards

• The
  FRB and XML: national data and international standards (PDF)
  San
  Cannon (Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the
  Federal Reserve)

• Bring
  your tables to the Web (PDF)
  Jostein Ryssevik (NESSTAR
  Limited)

• Data
  management lessons learned from developing GPW v3: implications for
  users (PDF)
  W. Christopher Lenhardt (CIESIN - Columbia
  University)

• Strengths
  and weaknesses of the DDI Aggregate Data Extension in directly driving
  an on-line data visualisation system (PDF)
  Humphrey Southall
  (University of Portsmouth)

G3: Transforming Data Archives: the Latest Insights

Chair: Karel Pagrach

• A new data infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences
  in the Netherlands
  Peter Doorn (NIWI-KNAW)

• Transforming
  National Data Services: Australia (PDF)
  Deborah Mitchell, Sophie
  Holloway (ACSPRI, Australian Social Science Data Archive
  (ASSDA))

• Transforming
  National Data Services: Canada (PDF)
  Charles Humphrey (University
  of Alberta)

• The
  data infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe: current situation and
  prospects (PDF)
  Birgitte Hausstein (Central Archive for Empirical
  Social Research, University of Cologne), Ludmila Khakhulina, Larissa
  Kosova (Independent Institute for Social Policy Russian Social Data
  Archive), Janez Stebe (Social Science Data Archive, University of
  Ljubljana)

H1: Becoming Enlightened about Discovering Data: Finding
Evidence

Chair: Paul Bern

• Citing
  statistics and data: where are we today? (PDF)
  Gaetan Drolet
  (Statistics Canada)

• System
  of subject headings for Russian Federation budget data information
  system (PDF)
  Anna Bogomolova, Tatyana Yudina (Moscow State
  University)

• Sensor
  grids for the social sciences (PDF)
  Rob Procter (National Centre
  for e-Social Science)

• Discovery
  channels (PDF)
  Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of
  Essex)

H2: Shaping Metadata Insight: The Metadater Tool

Chair: Meinhard Moschner

• Metadater:
  data models and tools for documenting comparative research
  data (PDF)
  Ekkehard Mochmann, Uwe Jensen (GESIS- ZA
  Cologne)

• The
  data model and data production procedures and
  dissemination (PDF)
  Marios Fridakis, John Kallas (Greek Social
  Data Bank at EKKE)

• MetaDater's
  perspective on cross-national and diachronic data (PDF)
  Reto
  Hadorn (SIDOS)

• THE
  Metadater data model and the formation of a grid for the support of
  social research (PDF)
  John Kallas (Greek Social Data Bank at EKKE)

H3: Using National Data

Chair: San Cannon

• Canadian
  statistics: evidence for enlightened democracy (PDF)
  Alan Bulley
  (Statistics Canada)

• Academic researchers and their use of digital data preserved in
  the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  Margaret
  O. Adams (NARA)

• Economic
  data and publications as snapshots in time (PDF)
  Katrina Stierholz
  (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

• Large-scale,
  cross-sectional government datasets; research published and recent
  developments (PDF)
  Jo Wathan, Vanessa Higgins (Centre for Census
  and Survey Research, University of Manchester)