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IASSIST 2002 Conference



Forwarded at the request of Ilona Einowski <ilona@ucdata.berkeley.edu>. 
Please excuse cross-postings.

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IASSIST 2002

The International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) invites you to attend its 28th annual conference hosted by the Roper Center, the Thomas J. Dodd Center, and the Homer Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut.  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.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 9th, 2002.
Registration can be done online or via e-mail, phone, and standard mail delivery.  See:  http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002

Conference Theme
"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.

Workshops
A full day of workshops will precede the conference.  Workshops fill up quickly, so early registration is advised.  Workshops cover:  Developing a GIS Data Services Program; An Introduction to Arcview; Finding, Evaluating and Using Numeric Data; and DDI in Action: the Innovative Data Library using Nesstar Knowledge Products.

Additional Information
For the most current information, check the IASSIST 2002 conference web site at: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002 
or contact the Program Committee at: iassist@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

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