Wednesday, June 7

8:45-10:15, Wednesday, June 7

A0:Innovations in Large Scale Data Dissemination Systems

Chair:	Ann Green (Yale University)
Speakers:	Micah Altman "Digital Library Support for Sharing and Replication: A Report on the Virtual Data Center" Cavan Capps "The Data Web and FERRETT: Innovations in Integrating Distributed Federal, State, and Local Data" Simon Musgrave and Jostein Ryssevik "FASTER: Accelerated Access to Official and Statistical Data" Steven Ruggles and Catherine Fitch "International Integrated Microdata Access System"

10:45-12:00, Wednesday, June 7

B0:Title: The Politics of Census 2000 -- Implications for Data Quality

Chair:	Judith Rowe (Retired, Princeton University)
Speaker:	Kenneth Prewitt (Director, U.S. Bureau of the Census)

Concurrents:

1:30 - 3:00 Wednesday, June 7

C1: International Infrastructures for Statistical Data

Chair:	Repke de Vries
Speakers:	Wouter De Groot "EUSTAGE: Towards a European Statistical Agency as an Intermediate Data Facility in Europe" Dusan Soltes "Web-based Data Enters Classrooms in Countries in Transition" Ernie Boyko "Developing Statistical Infrastructure in other countries: The Statistics Canada Experience" Robert D. Bush "International Training Activities in the U.S. Census Bureau"

C2:Technical and Legal Perspectives on Digital Archives

Chair:	Yvette Hackett (National Archives of Canada)
Speakers:	Thomas E. Brown "Muddying the Waters: When the Laws Dictate Archival Decisions" Robert Chadduck "Collection-Based Persistent Long Term Preservation" Eun G. Park and Shelby Sanett "Authenticity as a Requirement of Preserving Digital Data and Records"

C3:Building Connections among Heterogenous Terminologies and Multiple Languages

Chair:	Tess Trost (Texas Tech)
Speakers:	Fred Gey "Seamless Searching of Textual and Numeric Resources" Robert Mayo "Metadata in International Database Systems and the United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)" Ken Miller "Limbering Up: Preparing for the Race to Provide Multi-lingual Access and Automatic Indexing"

3:30 - 5:00 Wednesday, June 7

D1:From Many, One: The Archival Infrastructure for U.S. Social Science Data Research

Chair:	Miron L. Straf (Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education)
Speakers:	Margaret O. Adams (NARA) Cindy Severt (U. of Wisconsin, DPLS) Ilona Einowski (UC Data, Berkeley) Janet Vavra (ICPSR)

D2:Promoting GIS Literacy

Chair:	Peter Burnhill (Edinburgh University)
Speakers:	Mary French "The ARL GIS Literacy Project: Support for Government Data Services in the Digital Library" John C. Hudson, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University "The Role of GIS in the University" Steven Morris "Developing and Using Finding Aids for Geospatial Data" Patrick McHaffie, Department of Geography, DePaul University "To Be Announced"

D3:Effective Use of Technology in Delivering Data

Chair:	Paul Bern (Princeton)
Speakers:
William Block et al "Systems Implementation of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: A Description of the Computing Infrastructure of the IPUMS" Ron Nakao "The E-Codebook Data Extraction Web Interface" Tom Piazza "Providing Student Workspaces for Data Analysis on the Web"

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Thursday, June 8

Plenary:

9:00 - 10:30, Thursday, June 8

E0:Research Centres and Confidential Data

Chair:	Bjorn Henrichsen (Norwegian Social Science Data Services)
Speakers:	Paul Bernard (University of Montreal) Michael Clune (California Census Research Data Center, University of California, Berkeley) Ron Dekker (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)

Concurrents:

11:00 - 12:30 Thursday, June 8

F1:Building on the DDI/DTD Foundation: Additional Perspectives on DTD Application and Use

Chair:	Patrick Yott (University of Virginia)
Speakers:	Wendy Treadwell, et al "The Development of a Generalized Resource Tool for Aggregate Data (GRETA) at the University of Minnesota" Marcus Schommler, et al "ISSP Data Wizard" Tom Piazza "Where will DDI-documented Data Come From?" Marion Wittenberg "How to Use the DDI DTD in Day to Day Archive Practice"

F2:The Role of Data Quality in Social Science Research

Chair:	Ernie Boyko (Statistics Canada)
Speakers:	Paul Bernard, University of Montreal Josephina J. Card and Michael Carley, Sociometrics, Inc. Cathyrn Dippo, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

F3:Financial Data Vendors and Resources

Chair:	Laine Ruus (University of Toronto)
Speakers:	CRSP Compustat Datastream

12:30-2:00 Thursday June 7

Lunch and Annual General Meeting

2:00-3:00 Thursday, June 8

G1:Whither IASSIST? or IASSIST in the 21st Century

Chair:	Peter Burnhill (Edinburgh University)
Speakers:	Karsten Boye Rasmussen and Repke de Vries "Descriptive Figures and Hints for Further Research: IASSIST as a Virtual Community" Chuck Humphrey and Ann Green, "The IASSIST Five year Plan, Ten Years After"

2:00-5:00 Thursday, June 8

G2:Poster/Demonstration Sessions

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Friday, June 9

Plenary:

9-10:30, Friday, June 9

H0: Culture Shock and Identity Crisis: Data in Libraryland

Chair:	Diane Garner (Harvard University)
Speakers:	Deborah Dancik (University of Alberta) Tom Parris (Harvard University) Jean Sykes (London School of Economics)

Concurrents:

11:00 - 12:30 Friday, June 9

I1:Digital Library Federation: Reorganizing, Refocusing, and Moving Towards Concrete Collaboration

Chair:	Jackie Druery (Northwestern University)
Speaker:	Daniel Greenstein (Director, Digital Library Federation)

I2:Integrated Geospatial Information Systems and Services

Chair:	Gregory Haley
Speakers:	W. Christopher Lenhardt "Spatial Data Integration Challenges: The Gridded Population of the World Approach" David Medyckyj-Scott, et al "EDINA Digimap: an internet mapping and data service for the UK Higher Education Community" Cameron Wilson "Discover, Visualize, and Access Geomatics Data and Services: Current Concepts and Technology"

I3: Dynamics of Digital Objects and Accompanying Metadata

Chair:	Peter Joftis (ICPSR)
Speakers:	Edward Brent, et al "Representing Metadata with Intelligent Agents: An Initial Prototype" Jostein Ryssevik "Hyperlinking the World of Social Science: Integrating Text and Data in a Global Hypertext Space" Mark E. Wallace "User Driven Integrated Statistical Solutions- Digital Government by the People for the People"

12:30-2:00 Friday, June 9

Lunch
Featured Speaker
Norman M. Bradburn
Assistant director for the Social, Behavioral,
and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE)
National Science Foundation

2:00 - 3:30 Friday, June 9

J1:Archives and Assignments: Instructional Uses of Data Services

Chair:	Grant Blank (American University)
Speakers:	Roger Finke "Archives as Teaching Tools: Using the American Religion Data Archive for Undergraduate Instruction" Lisa Neidert, et al "Moving from the Blackboard to the Computer: Using Data in a Classroom Setting" Robin Rice and Melanie Wright "Promoting Use of Numeric Datasets in Learning and Teaching Through Enhanced Local Support"

J2:Qualitative Data: Collecting, Preserving and Sharing

Chair:

Louise Corti (University of Essex)

Speakers:

Louise Corti "Progress and Problems of Preserving and Providing Acess to Qualitative Data for Social Research: the international picture of an emerging culture" Reto Hadorn "Data Archives: Documentation of and access to sensitive data: the International Committee for the Red Cross project" Arja Kuula "Making Qualitative Research Reusable: Case in Finland" Zoltan Lux "Informatics-based Support for Research and Education in the Field of Contemporary Studies"

J3:Economics and Business Resources in your Data Library

Chair:	Bo Wandschneider (University of Guelph)
Speakers:	Paul Bern "Technical Issues in Providing Economic and Financial Data" Heather McMullen "Meeting the Needs of Economic and Financial Data Users" Sean Townsend "Finding Global Economic Statistics is Easy. Isn't it?"

3:30-4:30 Friday, June 9

Conference Wrap-Up