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New Member Joins Alliance
The DDI Alliance is pleased to announce that the Research Data Centre of
the German Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research
(IAB), has joined the Alliance. Stefan Bender will serve as the
representative to the DDI Alliance Expert Committee. We look forward to
productive meetings with our new member from Germany.
27 OCT 2009
DDI Alliance Welcomes New Members
The DDI Alliance is pleased to announce that two new members have
recently come on board:
- Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA), with Dr. Steven McEachern as the Expert Committee representative
- University of Toronto Scholars Portal, with Leanne Hindmarch as the Expert Committee representative
We look forward to working with these new members.
28 SEPT 2009
The Data Documentation Initiative [DDI] XML Standard : Workshop on Implementation of DDI3 - Advanced Topics
November 2-6, 2009
GESIS Workshop at the Leibniz Center for Informatics
Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
Facilitators:
Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Wendy L. Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA)
Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,
Mannheim, Germany)
Mary Vardigan (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research, USA)
Goals
The goal of this symposium-style workshop is to produce a detailed use
case literature covering the technical aspects of DDI3 implementation.
Some selected exploratory topics like interoperability with other
domains and technologies will also be examined.
Description of the Workshop
Implementations and planned implementations will be presented by a
number of attendees and discussed by other presenters and invited
experts. This workshop provides an opportunity to share experiences with
other advanced implementers of DDI3 and experts in the DDI3 technical
specification, obtain a real time peer review and create the beginnings
of a strong use case literature for DDI3 implementations. The hosts and
participants in the workshop are expected to look critically at the use
cases presented and provide any input that is appropriate.
Expected Results
Use cases discussed at the workshop will be written up and published in
the new DDI Alliance On-line Working Paper Series.
Contact
The names of interested organizations and individuals should be sent to
ddi-expert-workshop@icpsr.umich.edu. Please provide contact information, area of interest, and area of expertise for each individual, information regarding DDI 3 implementation, and a statement of what each individual can contribute to the workshop. Any questions regarding this event should be directed to
ddi-expert-workshop@icpsr.umich.edu
More information
14 AUG 2009
Call for Papers for 1st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting
1st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting:
"DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle"
Place: IDSC of IZA, Bonn, Germany
Date: December 4, 2009
Submission Deadline: Extended to October 22, 2009
Organizers:
Nikos Askitas (IZA), Joachim Wackerow (GESIS), Georgios Tassoukis (IZA)
Hosted by the International Data Service Center (IDSC) of IZA.
EDDI 2009 is organized jointly by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
The inaugural meeting will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and present.
We are very delighted that Kevin Schürer, Director of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and the UK Data Archive (UKDA), will deliver the plenary speech to EDDI 2009 (Title: Why DDI must succeed and the perils of it not doing so), and that the DDI Alliance will be sponsoring a half day DDI course on Thursday December 3 to be taught by Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center.
We are seeking presentations, talks, papers, posters on all things DDI:
- Case Studies
- Mature implementations
- Early Implementations
- Interplay of DDI with other standards or technologies
- Projects in early phases in which DDI is under consideration
- Critiques of DDI
We strongly encourage papers in different areas to ensure that a broad balance of topics is covered which will attract the greatest breadth of participants, and we encourage conference participants to propose papers and posters that would be of interest to themselves and other attendees.
Submission
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please use the online submission system at IZA. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2009. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.
There will be a subsidized rate for registration of 35 EUR per person. The fee is applicable to everyone taking part or contributing to the conference.
Further information is available at:
http://www.iza.org/eddi09
The poster of the event may be found here:
http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi-europe-2009.pdf
13 JUL 2009
DDI 3 Workshop to be Held in October in Germany
Using DDI 3 to Support Preservation, Management, Access, and
Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data
October 26-30, 2009
GESIS Workshop at the Leibniz Center for Informatics
Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
Course Instructors:
Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Wendy L. Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA)
Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,
Mannheim, Germany)
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) has produced an international
XML standard for the use of lifecycle information about social science
research data. Version 3.0 was published in April 2008. DDI facilitates
the automation of documentation and production systems for the delivery
of social science data. This workshop is geared toward the staff of
archives and data producing agencies. The five-day structure of this
workshop provides the participants with an opportunity for in-depth
assistance on the specialized features of DDI that are important to
their organization's activities.
New features in DDI 3 support
- metadata capture from planning and production to dissemination and analysis
- reuse of metadata to drive subsequent production or analysis processes
- ISO 11179 compliant data registries such as question, variable, and concept banks
- grouping of study series for longitudinal and comparative research
- capturing comparative information for the creation of harmonized data
- improved capture of archival information for data organization and management
The workshop provides the opportunity to get an in-depth look at this
major new release of DDI. The workshop is organized in cooperation with
the DDI Alliance. Further information on DDI can be found below.
Intended audience: anyone interested in DDI, no prior knowledge of DDI
or XML is required.
view further information on the workshop
30 JUN 2009
First European DDI Users Meeting to Be Held in Bonn
The International Data Service Center (IDSC) of IZA
and GESIS are hosting the first annual European DDI User Group Meeting, or EDDI. This meeting is being arranged by Nikos Askitas (IZA)
and Joachim Wackerow (GESIS). EDDI 2009 will take place December 4, 2009, at the IDSC of IZA in Bonn, Germany. The day before on December 3, the DDI Alliance will sponsor a half-day DDI course on "Putting DDI to Work for You!"
A flyer (PDF 270K) offers more information on these events.
As more and more DDI instances are created, we need a mechanism to identify the creators and maintainers of these instances uniquely. To address this, the DDI Alliance and partners are working to establish a global online registry of agencies and organizations. This is an ambitious project that may take some time to implement. In the meantime, we are providing an unofficial pre-registration form to enable organizations to request and reserve unique identifiers in the future registry.
On the registry page, you can find the preregistration form itself along some explanatory information about the process and a list of those organizations that have already preregistered. We encourage everyone using DDI (whether DDI 2 or 3) to preregister to reserve an identifier. This will help us as we begin to exchange DDI documents on a global scale.
2008-SEP-22
