Working Groups
Controlled Vocabularies Working Group
Charge: To develop controlled vocabularies on already identified DDI elements. Stage 2: To determine which other DDI elements require controlled vocabularies and develop those.
Timetable: Start November 2007, Stage 1 completed by June 2008. Stage 2 completed by December 2009.
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact Taina Jääskeläinen.
- Atle Alvheim, Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
- Sanda Ionescu, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Taina Jääskeläinen, Finnish Data Archive (FSD), Chair
- Chryssa Kappi, National Center for Social Research (EKKE), Greece
- Fredy Kuhn, Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (SIDOS)
- Meinhard Moschner, GESIS (German Social Science Infrastructure Services)
Preservation Metadata Working Group
Charge: (1) To identify elements necessary for long-term preservation for integration into the DDI specification; (2) to develop a plan for digital preservation of DDI documentation that takes into account the referencing mechanisms.
- Nancy McGovern, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Chair
This group is in the process of forming. Please contact
Nancy McGovern for more information.
Qualitative Data Exchange Working Group
Charge: To develop a robust XML based schema for qualitative data exchange and encourage tools development based upon these needs.
Timetable: Start Jan 2008, first draft schema to be produced Jan 2009. Agreed schema Dec 2009.
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact
Louise Corti.
- Atle Alvheim, Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
- Angad Bhat, United Kingdom Data Archive
- Louise Corti, United Kingdom Data Archive
- Russel Hathaway, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Herve L'Hours, United Kingdom Data Archive
- Kaye Marz, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Survey Design and Implementation Working Group
Charge: To develop requirements for new elements and attributes describing the process of survey design and implementation through the point of specifications for computer-assisted interviews.
Timetable: First draft December 2008.
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact
Peter Granda.
- Phil Bardsley, University of North Carolina
- Gina-Qian Cheung, University of Michigan, Survey Research Operations
- Karl Dinkelmann, University of Michigan, Survey Research Operations
- Dan Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Co-Chair
- Peter Granda, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Co-Chair
- Sue Ellen Hansen, University of Michigan, Survey Research Operations
- Janet Harkness, University of Nebraska and GESIS (German Social Science Infrastructure Services)
- Pascal Heus, Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
- Jeremy Iverson, Algenta Technologies
- Beth-Ellen Pennell, University of Michigan, Survey Research Operations
- Tom Piazza, University of California, Berkeley
- Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota
Technical Implementation Committee (TIC)
Charge: To create, maintain, and enhance the DDI specification according to requirements of the DDI substantive content working groups and in alignment with other metadata standards and community-based needs.
Timetable: Ongoing work, with weekly phone conferences.
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact
Wendy Thomas.
- J. Gager, AEON Consulting
- Arofan Gregory, AEON Consulting
- Pascal Heus, Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
- Ken Miller, United Kingdom Data Archive
- Chris Nelson, Metadata Technology
- Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center, Chair
- Joachim Wackerow, GESIS (German Social Science Infrastructure Services), Vice Chair
Usability and Outreach Working Group
Charge: The Usability and Outreach Group works to facilitate the use and usability of the DDI standard. The group therefore reaches out to the community of current and potential DDI users in order to promote DDI adoption, to obtain feedback on the standard, and to ensure its responsiveness to user needs.
Timetable: Under development
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact Kate McNeill or Stefan Kramer.
- Nikos Askitas, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph
- Janet M. Eisenhauer, University of Wisconsin
- Jane Fry, Carleton University
- Stefan Kramer, Yale University (Co-chair)
- Katherine McNeill, MIT (Co-chair)
- Ron Nakao, Stanford University
- Rob O'Reilly, Emory University
- Mary Vardigan, ICPSR
