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Subject: ICPSR Workshop on Data Services
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:07:15 -0800
From: jj <[log in to unmask]>


Announcement of Workshop:

Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0041
August 6-10, 2012
Ann Arbor Michigan

Instructors:

Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist, Purdue University
Chuck Humphrey, Head of the Data Library, University of Alberta
Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian Emeritus, University of California
San Diego

Who should attend: This five-day workshop is being offered to
individuals who manage or support local services for ICPSR and other
research data for quantitative analysis.  Those who should attend
include anyone who is new to providing social science data services or
who is seeking to revitalize an existing service.  We believe that this
workshop will also be useful to those outside the social sciences who
are responsible for providing access to research data in other domains.

Major recent changes in the global research environment are challenging
governmental and higher educational institutions to look at how they
plan and design appropriate levels of local data services.  Driving this
has been the widespread recognition of the increased value of research
data and the push for organizations to manage data assets better.  One
clear institutional response has been to engage in activities associated
with data curation, including data access, data preservation, data
management, collections management, and user services.

This workshop is structured around a five-stage data lifecycle model
focused on data production, dissemination, repositories, discovery and
repurposing. Data curation activities are presented for each stage of
this model, using presentations to discuss local data service issues and
computer exercises to demonstrate service activities. In this context,
fundamental data topics are covered, including conducting a data
reference interview, interpreting data documentation, understanding
variables, coping with various dissemination formats, accessing
different online services (e.g., SDA and Nesstar), searching for social
science data, subsetting data using Web-based tools, selecting and
downloading ICPSR data, and options for local data delivery.  The final
day of the workshop concludes with an exercise in designing a data
service based on the dimensions of access/preservation and
collections/services.

This is not a course in statistical analysis and attendees are not
expected to know how to use statistical software.

Workshop will remain open only until the Summer Program office has
received 20 paid applications.

This workshop is part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods of Social Research.

Registration:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/2012/application.h
tml

Questions?
If you have questions about registration, fees, travel, housing, or
other courses at the ICPSR Summer program, please get in touch with
ICPSR directly:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/index.jsp

If you have any questions about the workshop content, please feel free
to send email to Chuck or Jim or Jake:

Chuck: [log in to unmask]
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Jake:  [log in to unmask]

Dates: August 6-10, 2012
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Fees:  $1,500 (Participants from ICPSR member institutions)
        $3,000 (Participants from institutions that are not members of
ICPSR)

List of ICPSR member institutions and Official Representatives:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/administration/institutions



James A. Jacobs
data services librarian emeritus, UCSD
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