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IASSIST Conference 2005: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- IASSIST 2005 - Evidence and Enlightenment, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 24-27, 2005. IASSIST 2005
Workshops
- Jostein Ryssevik, Margaret Ward, Cliff Dive:
W4: Building a Data Library or Data Observatory on the Web Using Nesstar Technology. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Margaret Ward, Jostein Ryssevik, Cliff Dive:
W5: Data Publishing with Nesstar Publisher. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Steve Morris, Guy McGarva, James Reid:
W6: Using Streaming Geospatial Data Sources. IASSIST Conference 2005 - William Block, Mary Vardigan:
W7: DDI 102: Codebook Creation and Beyond. IASSIST Conference 2005
Plenary I
- Roger Jowell:
The Need for Rigour and Accessibility in Comparative Research. IASSIST Conference 2005
A1: Cross-national Socio-economic Data: Boundaries of Evidence
- Robert Johnston:
Understanding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals indicators - how to find and interpret the evidence on target achievement. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Bobray Bordelon:
Cross National and Intergovernmental Data: Paying for one stop shopping. IASSIST Conference 2005 - John Adams, Ray Thomas:
The production and presentation of statistics of unemployment: comparability issues. - Keith Cole:
The World on a plate: building and supporting a new community of international data users.
A2 : National Initiatives in Coordinating Preservation: Working Together
- Caroline Arms:
Data-PASS/NDIIPP: A new effort to harvest our history. - Chris Rusbridge:
UK strategies for digital preservation and digital curation. - Steven P. Morris:
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project/NDIIPP: collection and preservation of at-risk digital geospatial data. - Darrell Donakowski:
Data-PASS/NDIIPP: A new effort to harvest our history.
A3 : Enlightened Policies: Improving Collections and Acquisitions
- Janez Stebe:
Collecting evidence about studies to guide acquisition policy. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Sami Borg, Helena Laaksonen:
Setting up acquisition policies for a new data archive. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Amy Pienta, Louise Corti:
Redesigning and formalising national Data Archives' collection development policies. - Zoe Bliss:
Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge.
B1 : Cross-national Social Data: Building Common Ground
- Daniel Tsang:
NGO and IGO funded surveys: lessons from Vietnam. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Olivier Dupriez:
Data archive in developing countries: preservation and dissemination of microdata as an instrument for better development results. - Trevor Croft, Nicolas Pron, Kris Oswalt:
DevInfo: A common database.
B2 : Panel: DDI Structural Reform
- Wendy Thomas, Arofan Gregory, Tom Piazza:
Inside view of DDI Version 3.0: Structural Reform Group report. - Oliver Watteler:
DDI Comparative Data Working Group: introduction and status.
B3 : Building Data Services: Evidence from the Users
- Irena Vipavc Brvar:
New user needs will change 'best practice' of data archive services. - Jane Fry, Ernie Boyko:
Meeting the demand for data professionals. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Larry McGill:
Building a data archive that meets the needs of both researchers and non-researchers: how CPANDA addresses this challenge.
C1 : The Life Course of Survey Data: Evidence from New Tools
- Gina-Qian Cheung:
Demonstration of a Blaise Instrument Documentation System. - I-Lin Kuo:
Demonstration of the interactive codebook for the National Survey of Family Growth. - Lon Hofman:
Documentation in Blaise: past, present and future. - Tom Piazza:
CASES instrument documentation. IASSIST Conference 2005
C3 : New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of Evidence
- Joel Herndon, Alexandra Cooper:
Improving social science data and statistical services through assessment. - Margaret Law:
Data libraries: the view from the other side. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Linda Powell:
Data archiving at the US Central Bank. IASSIST Conference 2005
D1: Data Shaping the Neighbourhood: Localised Insight
- Tracey Stead, John Fraser, Robert Williams:
Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. - Philip Friend:
Barriers and opportunities for remote access to farm business and farm household data. - Anne Owen, Steve Cinderby, Meg Huby:
Characterizing rural England using GIS.
D2: Enriching Metadata: the Lifecycle Perspective
- Sue Ellen Hansen:
Survey metadata documentation. - Elizabeth Hamilton:
Providing context for understanding: the data life cycle. - Irene Wong:
Fitting the life course of the General Social Survey Cycle 17 in the Data Documentation Initiative. - Annelies van Nispen, Rutger Kramer:
The Xtensible Past: XML as a means for easy access to historical research data and a strategy for digital preservation.
D3: Tools to Support Data Services: New Approaches
- Tom Piazza:
The SDA online analysis system - recent enhancements. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Mathias Sinning, John P. Haisken-DeNew:
SOEPMENU: A menu-driven Stata/SE interface for accessing the German Socio-Economic Panel. - Sam Smith:
Reusing information on websites.
D4: New Insights in Providing Data Services: A Variety of Evidence
- Lynda M. Duke:
Increased accessibility of datasets and statistical resources through faculty-library collaboration. - Mary B. McGrath, Mary Jo Roy:
Capturing meta data on a different kind of data. - Alastair J. Allan:
e-Government Information: the same old problem - newly digitized.
E1: Transforming Social Data into Information
- Christian Bourret:
Information issues in health networked organisations: cooperative work and new relationships. - Alice Robbin:
Bridging information and political science: investigating empirical evidence on political information seeking on the internet, 2000-2004. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Luuk Schreven:
Digitising Dutch Censuses, 1795-1971; Preliminary results & work in progress.
E2: Tools for Preservation: Integration and Assessment
- Jostein Ryssevik, Pascal Heus, Olivier Dupriez, Mark Diggory:
Preserving and improving the access to large and complex household surveys. - Micah Altman, Cavan Capps:
The DataWeb/VDC integration. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Harrison Dekker:
An assessment of Virtual Data Center as a tool for dissemination and digital preservation of social science data. IASSIST Conference 2005
E3: Enlightening Access Control: New Methods
- Sandy Shaw:
Issues in federated identity management. - Lucy Bell:
Shibbolising UK Census and ESDS services. - Gustave J. Goldmann:
The Research Data Centre Program: A fundamental element of the social research infrastructure in Canada. IASSIST Conference 2005
E4: Discovering a Profession: the Accidental Data Librarian
- Luis Martínez, Stuart MacDonald:
Looking for data directions? Ask a data librarian. - Paul Bern:
"You're a what?": taking stock of the data profession. - Jeffrey S. Bullington:
First data, then docs. - Tiffani Conner:
Establishing a data service: The Numeric & GeoSpatial Data Service Proposal.
F1: Timeless Social Data: Past, Present & Future
- Anne Sofie Fink:
The history of the social survey - the social survey in history. - Peter Burnhill, Ann Matheson:
Measuring 'the quantum of happiness': ensuring access to the first (& second) Statistical Account. - Fernando Elichirigoity, Cheryl Knott Malone:
Industrial classification and the depiction of open source-based production data. IASSIST Conference 2005
F2: Metadata Enlightenment: Mark-up Standards and Issues
- Hans Jørgen Marker:
DDI and data. - Ernie Boyko:
DDI: does it have a life beyond IASSIST? - Louise Corti, Elizabeth Bishop:
Smart qualitative data: methods and community tools for data mark-up.
F3: Training for the Use of Data: Evidence from the Trenches
- A. Michelle Edwards:
Introducing data history to students. - Katherine McNeill-Harman:
Training subject librarians to provide data services. - Daniel Edelstein, Kristi Thompson:
Demystifying data reference. IASSIST Conference 2005
Plenary II
- John Curtice:
Testing Social Change. IASSIST Conference 2005
G1: Topical Data Collections: Cultural Gems
- Mark Maynard:
Upgrading ABC News/Washington Post data collections using DDI and legacy databases. - Zoltán Lux:
The integrated photo-documentary online database. - Jane Barton, Alan Dawson, Andrew Williamson:
ASPECT: a digital library approach to Scottish electoral data. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Cindy Teixeira:
The North American Jewish Data Bank: a rare population archive. IASSIST Conference 2005
G2: Gaining New Insight from Tables and Aggregate Data: Pivotal News
- San Cannon:
The FRB and XML: national data and international standards. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Jostein Ryssevik:
Bring your tables to the Web. IASSIST Conference 2005 - W. Christopher Lenhardt:
Data management lessons learned from developing GPW v3: implications for users. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Humphrey Southall:
Strengths and weaknesses of the DDI Aggregate Data Extension in directly driving an on-line data visualisation system.
G3: Transforming Data Archives: the Latest Insights
- Peter Doorn:
A new data infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences in the Netherlands. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Deborah Mitchell, Sophie Holloway:
Transforming National Data Services: Australia. - Charles Humphrey:
Transforming National Data Services: Canada. - Brigitte Hausstein, Ludmila Khakhulina, Larissa Kosova, Janez Stebe:
The data infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe: current situation and prospects.
H1: Becoming Enlightened about Discovering Data: Finding Evidence
- Gaetan Drolet:
Citing statistics and data: where are we today? - Anna Bogomolova, Tatyana N. Yudina:
System of subject headings for Russian Federation budget data information system. - Rob Procter:
Sensor grids for the social sciences. - Kenneth Miller:
Discovery channels.
H2: Shaping Metadata Insight: The Metadater Tool
- Ekkehard Mochmann, Uwe Jensen:
Metadater: data models and tools for documenting comparative research data. - Marios Fridakis, John Kallas:
The data model and data production procedures and dissemination. - Reto Hadorn:
MetaDater's perspective on cross-national and diachronic data. - John Kallas:
THE Metadater data model and the formation of a grid for the support of social research.
H3: Using National Data
- Alan Bulley:
Canadian statistics: evidence for enlightened democracy. - Margaret O. Adams:
Academic researchers and their use of digital data preserved in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. IASSIST Conference 2005 - Katrina Stierholz:
Economic data and publications as snapshots in time. - Jo Wathan, Vanessa Higgins:
Large-scale, cross-sectional government datasets; research published and recent developments.

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