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Call for papers IASSIST / IFDO conference
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Call for Papers IASSIST / IFDO conference
The International Association for Social Science
Information Services and Technology (IASSIST)
will hold its 27th annual conference with the
International Federation of Data Organizations
(IFDO) from May 14 - 19, 2001 in Amsterdam,
capital of The Netherlands. The title will be:
"2001 A DATA ODYSSEY, Collaborative Working in
the Social Science Cyber Space"
The conference program committee invites
submissions for paper presentations, panel
discussions, poster & demonstration sessions and
workshops for the IASSIST/IFDO Conference.
IASSIST/IFDO conferences bring together data
professionals, data producers, providers, and
users from all around the world, who are engaged
in the creation, acquisition, processing,
maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use
of numeric social science data for research and
instruction.
This year's conference emphasizes the need for
co-operation on technical and organizational
matters, and of course on contents.
Time schedule
Workshops, May 14 and 15
Conference, May 16 - 18
Social Event, May 19
Note: May 14th is optional.
Proposals due by January 22nd 2001
The conference program committee will send
notification of arrival when the (first)
proposal has been received. The committee will
send notification of acceptance by February 9th
2001.
There is no mandatory length of the proposals,
but it should contain enough information to
review the proposal. Abstracts from last year's
IASSIST conference can be found at:
www.src.uchicago.edu/datalib/ia2000
International Outreach
The International Outreach Action Group provides
support for data professionals from developing
economies to attend the annual conference. Full
application information is available from the
conference web site.
Address
Please send submissions (including proposed
title and abstract) and other questions to:
iassist2001@niwi.knaw.nl.
Information and registration
More information on hotels, registration, etc.
can be found at the conference website:
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/ia2001.htm
Themes
The conference themes are on specific topics on
which we could join forces and learn from each
other. Proposals in the following areas are
particularly welcome.
1) Collaborative Working
a) Dividing the workload
b) Data access
c) Improving usability of data
2) Metadata workshops are encouraged
a) Harmonisation and Networking of Data
Infrastructure
b) Metadata tools
3) Organisational matters
a) Best of both worlds: central archives and
local digital libraries.
b) New Archives
c) Thematic Archives
d) Digital Archiving
4) New Data
a) Registries of persons
b) Micro data on firms
c) Webdata
d) Qualitative data
e) GIS data
f) Aggregate data
Workshops
There is room for 4 - 8 workshops. One workshop
session is 3 hours. It is possible to extend a
workshop to two sessions. If the number of
workshops exceeds 4, Monday May 14th will be
included in the program.
Poster Sessions are especially invited. Some
topics to be covered could be:
1) Statistical Software
2) Data protection tools
3) Publishers
4) Metadata
5) (Topical) Archives & Data Organisations
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Cor van der Meer
Steinmetz Archive / NIWI
Joan Muyskenweg 25
1096 CJ Amsterdam
P.O. box 95110
1090 HC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel. +31 20 4628600 (general)
tel. +31 20 4628624 (direct)
fax. +31 20 6658013
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