Greetings,

The Japan Political Studies Group will host a discussion about data sets and data archiving when we meet this week during AAS.

Please join us to hear about data collections from group and institutional projects and data archiving practices relied on by individual researchers. We look forward to comments and conversation involving all who can attend the meeting.

Colleagues speaking:

. Jeff Broadbent, University of Minnesota - Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks with 20 cases including Japan, Project website www.compon.org

. Yukio Maeda, University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science - ISS's social science data preservation and dissemination . Mikitaka Masuyama, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies - text-based search on deliberation video clips provided via the web sites of the Japanese Diet.
. Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University - Data archiving and preservation from research on immigrant communities . Petrice Flowers, University of Hawaii - Data archiving and preservation from research on refugee advocacy

Time and location:
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Carleton Room
Saturday, March 17
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Best regards,
Katherine

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Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
JPSG Coordinator
Associate Professor
Departments of Asian Studies and Political Science St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, Minnesota