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IASSIST Conference: Call for Papers
IASSIST 2002
Accelerating Access:
Enhancing Collaboration and Dissemination
Call for Papers
The International Association for Social Science Information
Service and Technology (IASSIST) invites submissions for
papers, panel discussions, poster/demonstration sessions
and workshops for its 28th annual conference to be hosted
by The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and the
Thomas J. Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut.
Mark your calendar now and plan to join us June 11-15, 2002.
IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals,
data producers, and data analysts from 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.
Conference Themes
Accelerating Access is a theme that characterizes the ever
increasing demand for quantitative and qualitative data
through the Internet. Our key goal as data providers is to
ensure user communities can gain access to and effectively
use quantitative and qualitative resources. The conference
this year will focus on the capabilities both of Internet
technology and of the wider data community in providing
support to and partnering with the research and education
infrastructure. The influence of evolving web environments
for data producers, data archives/data libraries, and end-
users will be a key area of exploration. The conference
will include papers on collaboration between data professionals
and researchers in metadata dissemination and in integration
projects, particularly those that have evolved from emerging
standards for describing data and documentation. We will
also examine the legal and political barriers to web-based
data access, and the role of virtual data access in new and
emerging economies.
Focus of papers and presentations for review:
* The impact of "born digital" data
* Collaborative metadata dissemination and integration
projects
* Data lifespan and integrity in web environments
* DDI standards and new developments
* Documenting qualitative resources to enhance access
* Future of data warehousing and data mining
* GIS and data access
* Impact of Internet technology on social science research
methods
* New research/archive networks
* Political implications of data access in virtual communities
* Preparation of complex data for multiple user audiences
* Preserving and accessing research content
* Privacy and confidentiality
* Relationships among archives and the social science research
community
* Universal access to public data
* Web based data access for research and teaching
* Library subscriptions, licensing and data acquisition
policies
* Legal barriers to Internet-based data access
Proposals are due by January 11, 2002
The deadline for paper, session, and poster/demonstration
proposals is January 11, 2002. The Conference Program
Committee will send notification of the acceptance of
proposals by February 1, 2002.
Session proposals should contain information on the focus of
the session, the organizer/moderator and possible session
participants. It will be the responsibility of the session
organizer/moderator to secure session participants. Please
send submission including proposed title and an abstract
(recommended length 150 words) to:
iassist@ropercenter.uconn.edu
Additional Information
For the most current information check the IASSIST 2002
conference web site at:
http://ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002
or contact the Program Committee at:
iassist@ropercenter.uconn.edu
Important dates:
Deadline for proposals: January 11, 2002
Notification of proposal acceptance: February 1, 2002
IASSIST 2002 Conference: June 11-15, 2002
Come and Take a Cyber Visit:
The University of Connecticut (www.uconn.edu)
The Roper Center (www.ropercenter.uconn.edu)
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
(www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/)
Homer Babbidge Library
(www.lib.uconn.edu/information/informationNew.html)
Bradley International Airport (www.bradleyairport.com/)
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