ARHIV DRUŽBOSLOVNIH PODATKOV

This five day workshop covers the basics of providing social science data
services and is especially relevant to individuals who are responsible for
providing local support for the ICPSR and other numeric research data. Through
discussion, hands-on computing exercises, and homework, participants will
evaluate appropriate levels of service for data in their local environments.
Experiences will be provided in searching for data, exploring documentation, and
using, extracting, and downloading data through Web-based retrieval tools.
Topics helpful in designing and planning data services will be discussed,
including institutional repositories, open access publishing, the open data
movement, and levels of data reference service. Throughout the workshop, an
emphasis will be placed on social science concepts and terminology related to
data and providing services for data, the life-cycle of data, practical
solutions to service delivery, and the international data service community.

Who Should Attend: Anyone who is new to providing services for numeric social
science data. This is not a statistics course and attendees are not expected to
know statistics.

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://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/contact.html

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

Chuck: humphrey@datalib.library.ualberta.ca
Jim: jajacobs@ucsd.edu


Dates: August 11-15, 2008
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI.
Fees (Participants from ICPSR member institutions): $1,600
Fees (Participants from institutions that are not members of ICPSR): $3,200

List of ICPSR member institutions and Official Representatives:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/membership/ors.html

Online Registration:
http://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/2008/registration.html
(Individuals applying for this course should check the Statistical Three- to
Five-Day box on the application form.)

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

Information about transportation and housing:
http://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/visiting.html

This workshop is part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of
Social Research
http://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/index.html
http://icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/sumprog/course/0063.xml