Alliance Structure

Member Institutions

Expert Committee

The DDI Expert Committee is comprised of XML experts, social science researchers, and data archivists who serve as Alliance representatives from their respective institutions and organizations. The Expert Committee also has a number of working groups devoted to improving the specification's handling of special types of data.

  • Iris Alfredsson,Swedish National Data Service (SND)
  • Atle Alvheim, Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
  • Nikos Askitas, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
  • Michael Beahan, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
  • Stefan Bender, Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
  • William Block, Cornell University (CISER)
  • Olivier Dupriez, World Bank, Development Data Group (DECDG)
  • Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph
  • Janet M. Eisenhauer, University of Wisconsin
  • Alexis Furuichi, Princeton University
  • Daniel Gillman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Associate Member)
  • Jan Goebel, German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
  • Arofan Gregory, Metadata Technology
  • Sue Ellen Hansen, Survey Research Operations, University of Michigan
  • Pierre Hausman, CEPS/INSTEAD -- Luxembourg
  • Pascal Heus, Open Data Foundation
  • Leanne Hindmarch, University of Toronto
  • Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta (Chair)
  • Sanda Ionescu, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Uwe Jensen, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Nanna Floor Klausen, Danish Data Archive
  • Mari Kleemola, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Vice Chair)
  • Ellen Kraffmiller, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University
  • Stefan Kramer, Yale University
  • Fredy Kuhn, Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences (FORS)
  • Hans Jørgen Marker, Swedish National Data Service (SND)
  • Eric Marlier, CEPS/INSTEAD -- Luxembourg
  • Reiner Mauer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Mark G. Maynard, Roper Center, University of Connecticut
  • Steven McEachern, Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA)
  • Katherine McNeill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Meinhard Moschner, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Tim Mulcahy, National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
  • Ron Nakao, Stanford University
  • Tom Piazza, University of California, Berkeley -- Computer-Assisted Survey Methods Program
  • John Shepherdson, United Kingdom Data Archive
  • Jon Stiles, University of California, Berkeley -- UCDATA
  • Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center
  • Mary Vardigan, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Joachim Wackerow, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Marion Wittenberg, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Netherlands
  • Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Steering Committee

Members of the Steering Committee include the following individuals from Alliance host institutions and associations:

  • Mark Abrahamson, representing the Roper Center

  • George Alter, representing the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

  • Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta -- DDI Alliance Expert Committee Chair

  • Sami Borg, Finnish Social Science Data Archive, representing the International Federation of Data Organizations (IFDO)

  • Mari Kleemola, Finnish Social Science Data Archive -- DDI Alliance Expert Committee Vice Chair

  • Hans Jørgen Marker, Swedish National Data Service (SND), representing the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)

  • Mary Vardigan, ICPSR, DDI Alliance Director

  • Melanie Wright, United Kingdom Data Archive (UKDA), representing the International Association of Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)