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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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