Concurrent Sessions

• C1A
  Delivering Data on the Net: where access meets the pavement of the information highway
  Chair: Cor van der Meer
  • Davis, Chris "Tools for Internet Based Data Discovery, Retrieval, and Analysis"
  • Fore, Julie "Comparison of World Wide Web Browsers for Macintosh/DOS/Windows Computers"
  • Stratford, Juri "Public Access to Large Data Sets in a Depository Library"

• C1B
  Documentation Standards: nearing harmonization or just humming a tune?
  Chair: Bridget Winstanley
  • Collins, Patrick "Establishing Data and Documentation Standards for Investigators Who Are Required to Archive Research Data"
  • Greene, Stephan "A Functional Approach to Documentation and Metadata"
  • Rasmussen, Karsten "Documentation -- What We Have and What We Want"

• C1C
  Census Public Use Microdata Products: a cross-national review
  Chair: Ernie Boyko
  • Albert, Luc "The Canadian Census Microdata Files: strategic issues for the 1996 program"
  • Boyd, Monica "Caviar or Cornflakes? Census Public Use Files and Consumers"
  • Dale, Angela "Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 1991 UK Census of Population"
  • Morse, Donald "A UK Sample of Anonymised Records -- a (jaundiced?) user's eye view"

• C2D
  Applications of Data, the Net and Services
  Chair: Atle Alvheim
  • Bergen, Paul "The Social Sciences Data Access Initiative"
  • Corti, Louise "The Archiving of Qualitative Data: setting up a new national UK Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre"
  • Green, Ann Gerken "Improving Access to International Statistics: A Local Scenario"

• C2E
  Enhancing Access to Data and Information: services and tools
  Chair: Susan Czarnocki
  • Blodgett, John "Building an archive of US census related data products"
  • Coates, Renata "The Lijphart Election Archive"
  • Ferguson, Nick "SOSIG - the social science information gateway"
  • Shieh, Jackie "Tackling ICPSR Online Codebook with Success"

• C2F
  Canadian Longitudinal and Recurring Surveys: defining the services to support these products (an IASSIST/CAPDU concurrent session)
  Chair: Wendy Watkins
  • Grey, Vince "Defining the Data User's Environment"
  • Neary, Sharon "A Revolution of Rising Expectations: goodness of fit in the development of the user interface for academic data collections"
  • Norris, Doug "Are Public Use Microdata Files Underutilized for Research and Teaching Purposes?"
  • Webber, Mary Ann "The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics: issues in data dissemination"

• C3G
  When the Archivist Hits the Information Highway: avoiding the dusty trail
  Chair: Margaret Adams
  • Hackett, Yvette "Recent Activities in the Electronic Records Program at the National Archives of Canada"
  • Hannigan, Ken "Sober ways, politic drifts and amiable persuasions: approaching the information highway from the dusty trail"
  • Nielsen, Per "Merging Cultures: Danish Integration of Academic Data Service into Traditional Archival System"

• C3H
  Enriching Documentation: new sources and tools
  Chair: Darlene Fichter
  • Beedham, Hilary "Technological change and the provision of documentation for time series data sets"
  • Curran, Patrick "INCORE metadatabase server - technical aspects and constraints"
  • Fournier, Irene "Mise a la disposition des donnees en sciences sociales au CNRS"

• C3I
  Access to AIDS Research Data: do we face data deficiency
  Chair: Dan Tsang
  • Bunster, Mark "HIV and AIDS Data bases"
  • Sherman, Dale S. "HIV Data Collection: the challenges of methodological precision"

• C4J
  Access to GIS/Mapping and Data: methods and applications
  Chair: Jeff Moon
  • Stiles, Jon "Interfaces between social science data and mapping: seamless or sewed-together?"
  • Meij, Hendrik "Geo-Referenced Population Data"
  • Morse, Donald "Digitised Boundary and Digitised Mapping Data: From Service Design, Development and Implementation to Project Support"

• C4K
  Bridging Resources: dealing with non-traditional social science data
  Chair: Peter Burnhill
  • Barber, David and Jan Zauha "Scientific Data and Social Science Data Libraries"
  • Thibodeau, Ken "Preserving Scientific Information on our Physical Universe"

• C4L
  Barriers to Data Access and Preservation
  Chair: Judith Rowe
  • Kochtubajda, Bob "Data Rescue: experiences from the Alberta Hail Project"
  • McKay, Don "Barrier to Data in the Canadian Global Change Program"

• C5M
  Keeping in Touch with Clients of Data Archive and Library Services
  Chair: JoAnn Dionne
  • Henderson, Jim "WWW: What Do Researcher's Want?"
  • Winstanley, Bridget "Using Email and the Internet to Survey Users: the BIRON questionnnaire

• C5N
  The Data Librarian/Archivist: is this an obsolete profession?
  Chair: Greg Haley
  • Brown, Tom "Myth or Reality: Is There a Generation Gap Among Electronic Records Archivists?"
  • Gray, Ann "The Data Librarian/Archivist: Unknown, Unappreciated, and Unwanted"
  • Guy, Laura "Data Libraries as Vending Machines: Or, What We Can Learn From Arthur Dent"

• C5O
  Cooperation: stretching the network into a community
  Chair: Paul de Guchteneire
  • Burnhill, Peter and Donald Morse "Building a network of data services for policy and social science research: making a virtual out of the data library experience"
  • McCleery, Alison "Developing a scottish migration monitor: a cooperative approach"