INFORMATION PAGE

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| Locations | Program | Social event | Presentations & Pictures |

The EDAN DDI Workshop and the CESSDA Expert Seminar, Bucharest - Romania 2002 will take place between 18th and 20th of September at the RODA building from no.1 Schitu Magureanu Bd. (see map)
These events are jointly organized by RODA and GESIS, highly supported by the Institute for Quality of Life Reseach and Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest.
RODA is located in the Bulandra Theater building, right in front of the Izvor Bridge. Our office can be found at the 5th floor, room 15.


Registration:

Please send an e-mail to:
Adrian Dusa (adi@roda.ro) or
Brigitte Hausstein (hausstein@berlin.iz-soz.de).
We will offer any information you need.

How to arrive to RODA:

From Otopeni international airport:
The airport is situated 16km North of Bucharest. The best way to get to Bucharest is a taxi. There are shuttle buses available (bus number 783) every 30-60 minutes, but they stop running on 22:30.
The price for a bus ride is approximately 1 EURO (roughly 33,000 LEI).
A taxi ride from the airport to the center of Bucharest (where the hotel is situated) should not exceed 6 or 7 EURO (roughly 200,000 LEI).

VERY IMPORTANT!! DO NOT under any circumstances take a taxi from the airport area, as they are NOT certified taxi drivers and might charge between 30 and 100 EURO for a ride!! They can't offer receipts, either.

We will do our best to have a contact person waiting at the airport who will order a taxi for you, but in case your plain arrives late in the night or very early in the morning, here are some certified taxi companies (they charge between 4,500 and 5,000 LEI per kilometer):

Cobalcescu (tel. no. 9451)
Cristaxi (tel. no. 9421, 9461, 9466)
Alexander (tel. no. 9651, 9601)
Taxi 2000 (tel. no. 9494)
There are public phones inside the airport, and a phone card costs 80,000 or 100,000 LEI.

From Gara de Nord train station:
Take the bus number 85 which will take you to the Kogalniceanu Square, or bus number 123 which will take you to the Izvor Bridge. From both these bus-stops, you can reach RODA within 1 minute (see map).
A bus ticket within Bucharest costs 6,000 LEI.
Please be aware of the pickpockets, at all times and especially inside the buses!!
You can find more information about Bucharest public transportation here.

Changing money:

The Romanian currency is called LEU (LEI for plural).
At August 30, the exchange rate was 32,722 LEI to 1 EURO and 51,521 LEI for 1 GBP.
Do consider that these may vary slightly because of the inflation.

There are 500,000; 100,000; 50,000; 10,000; and 2,000 LEI bills, and 5,000; 1,000 and 500 coins.

To change small amounts of money, there are Exchange houses opened inside the airport (they generally offer lower exchange rates than in Bucharest, though). ATMs are available at Bucharest banks, and there is an ATM right inside the RODA building (see map). There are plenty of exchange houses in the Seminar area, opened from 9AM to 6PM.
No exchange commission is charged.

Accommodation and Meals:

We have arranged the accommodation at the Hotel Central*** on 13 Brezoianu St. It is the closest hotel to our location (about 3 minutes walking time); there is a discount of 37.5% for these events.
The regular price for a single room is 80 EURO throughout the week and 75 EURO for week-end.
Please send us the details regarding your arrival/departure, to make the hotel arrangements for you.

Breakfast will be served at the hotel, and both dinners (Wednesday and Thursday) will be supported by RODA. For lunch, we arranged to serve it at the University restaurant: delicious food – two courses and a desert plus refreshments. A lunch there costs around 5 EURO.

Restaurants:
We recommend TERASA DOAMNEI and CASA GORJANA, two restaurants with very good Romanian dishes.

Bars and Night Clubs:

You can find more information about Bucharest here.

Locations:

Romanian Social Data Archive
1 Schitu Magureanu Bd., fl.5, room 15
Tel./Fax +40 (21) 312.66.18
http://www.roda.ro

Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
9 Schitu Magureanu Bd.
Tel.: +40 (21) 314.03.26/ +40 (21) 315.31.22
Fax: +40 (21) 315.83.91
http://www.sas.unibuc.ro

Institute for Quality of Life Research (IQLR)
13 Calea 13 Septembrie, sector 5, Bucuresti
Tel.: +40 (21) 411.48.00
Fax: +40 (21) 411.48.05
http://www.iccv.ro

Events program:

EDAN DDI Workshop

Wednesday 18 September

09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and opening remarks
09.15 - 09.30 Introduction to DDI (Ken Miller, UKDA)
09.30 - 11.00 DDI XML codebook production I (Janez Stebe, ADP)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 DDI XML codebook production II (Janez Stebe, ADP)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30 After The Production - Post Natal DDI (Ken Miller, UKDA)
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee
15.00 - 16.00 Marking up texts (Emma Barker, UKDA)
16.00            EDAN Discussion on the EU Proposal (6th FP)
19.00 Dinner

Thursday 19 September

09.00 - 10.00 Providing data access: setting up a web data catalogue and
                     installing a NESSTAR Server (Matti Heinonen, Mari Kleemola FSD)
10.00 - 11.00 NESSTAR Publisher/ NESSTAR catalogue (Adrian Dusa, RODA)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 NESSTAR Publishing (Adrian Dusa)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

CESSDA Expert Seminar

(Arrival of the CESSDA experts)

14.30 - 15.30 Joint CESSDA and EDAN session on Access Control Unit
                     implementation (Massimiliano Gerardi, NESSTAR Ltd.)
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.30 Presentations: MADIERA (Bjarne Øymyr, NSD) and METADATER (Nanna Floor
.....................Clausen, DDA)
19.00            Dinner

Friday 20 September

Social event: coach trip to the Carpathian Mountains, visit the Peles Castle at Sinaia, Black Church at Brasov, lunch at Poiana Brasov at the Sura Dacilor restaurant, and visit at the Bran Castle (Dracula's castle). Return to Bucharest on Saturday evening and spend some time on a night club (for the interested persons).

Please let us know whether you are interested in joining this event, so we could make all the arrangements. The estimated cost is 50 EURO; we will let you know of any modification in due time.