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IASSIST 2004
Conference Announcement / Call for Papers
Data Futures: Building on Thirty Years of Advocacy
The International Association for Social Science Information Services and
Technology (IASSIST) annual conference will be held at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison on May 25-28, 2004. This year's conference, Data
Futures: Building on Thirty Years of Advocacy, examines new issues and
trends and links them to principles that have emerged during the past
thirty years.
Social science data producers, users, and support specialists have long
understood and promoted responsibility for preservation, quality,
stewardship, responsible use, and literacy. Juxtaposed against these
guiding principles are pervasive and innovative national and international
trends in data availability, access, and usage. New frontiers in data
include the globalization of data and its commodification; integration of
multimedia in research; and common concerns across nations and disciplines
that confidentiality is an issue that requires constant attention.
IASSIST has been on the leading edge of data dissemination and access
issues, critically examining developments in electronic delivery and
privacy/confidentiality concerns. "Data advocacy" has included promoting
statistical literacy among data professionals and the public; participating
in the development of metadata standards for data; and working on solutions
for preservation and archiving. The 2004 conference will build on this
work with sessions that address various aspects of data advocacy. We seek
submissions of papers, poster/demonstration sessions, and panel sessions on
the following topics:
* Data services in physical and virtual spaces
* Applying metadata standards for data; exploring geospatial metadata, DDI,
Dublin Core, etc.
* Archival challenges of the digital government
* Bringing numeric and spatial data into the classroom
* Collaborative data dissemination and integration projects
* Data Documentation Initiative (DDI): developments and implementations
* Data lifespan and integrity in web environments
* Promotion of data and statistical literacy
* Data quality and authentication
* Future of data warehousing and data mining
* GIS and data access
* Impact of Internet technology on social science research methods
* Infrastructure for data access and preservation
* Innovations in data delivery and access methods
* Data in institutional repositories
* Legal barriers to Internet-based data access
* Library subscriptions, licensing and data acquisition policies
* Metrics for assessing the value and impact of data in the knowledge
economy
* New research/archive networks
* Preparation and dissemination of complex data for multiple user audiences
* Privacy, confidentiality, disclosure control issues
* Qualitative data issues: metadata, access, preservation, linking with
quantitative data
* Relationships among archives and the social science research community
* The life cycle of research data and issues of preservation
* Universal access to public data
* User interfaces for data dissemination: best practices, innovations
* History and future of IASSIST
The deadline for paper, session, and poster/demonstration proposals is
January 16, 2004.
The Conference Program Committee will send notification of the acceptance
of proposals by February 6, 2004.
Session proposals should contain information on the focus of the session,
the organizer or moderator, and possible session participants. It will be
the responsibility of the session organizer or moderator to secure session
participants.
Please send submissions, including proposed title and an abstract
(recommended length 150 words), to: [log in to unmask]
More information about IASSIST is available at http://www.iassistdata.org.
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IASSIST 2004 Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Fay Booker
Data Librarian
Social Science Divisional Computing
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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Julie Linden
Data & Government Information Librarian
Social Science Libraries & Information Services
Yale University
P.O. Box 208294
New Haven, CT 06520
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