Working Groups

Tue, 2009-09-29 10:39 — icpsr-web

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 Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Chair
  • Chryssa Kappi, National Center for Social Research (EKKE), Greece
  • Fredy Kuhn, Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (FORS)
  • Meinhard Moschner, GESIS -- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

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 (compliant with DDI) and encourage tools development based upon these needs.

Timetable: Start Jan 2010 -- First meeting, 19 April 2010

Progress: Draft QuDex schema produced outside of remit of the group in 2008. The group will build on this schema and evaluate its relationship to DDI.

Convenor: Arofan Gregory, Metadata Technology
Chair: Louise Corti, UK Data Archive
Vice Chair: Rene van Horik, DANS
Architects: Larry Hoyle, University of Kansas, and Ben Ryan, University of Leeds
Observer: Joachim Wackerow, GESIS

Members

  • Atle Alvheim, Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
  • Angad Bhat, United Kingdom Data Archive
  • AnneSofie Fink, Danish Data Archive
  • Russel Hathaway, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Wolfram Horstmann, University of Bielefeld
  • Jeremy Iverson, Algenta Technologies
  • Arja Kuula, Finnish Data Archive
  • Agostina Martinez, University of Liverpool
  • Kaye Marz, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)'
  • Steve McEachern, Australia Data Archive
  • Barry Radler, University of Wisconsin
  • Ben Ryan, University of Leeds
  • Andrea Smioski, WISDOM
  • Dan Smith, Algenta Technologies
  • Cornelia Zuell, GESIS

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.

  • 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
  • Pascal Heus, Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
  • Jeremy Iverson, Algenta Technologies
  • Tom Piazza, University of California, Berkeley
  • Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota
  • Adam Zammitt, Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI)

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, Metadata Technology
  • Arofan Gregory, Metadata Technology
  • Pascal Heus, Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
  • Chris Nelson, Metadata Technology
  • Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center, Chair
  • Joachim Wackerow, GESIS -- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Vice Chair

Tools Catalog Group

Charge: The Tools Catalog Group works to facilitate the use of the DDI standard by describing and promoting tools and software built to work with DDI. The group is currently conducting an inventory of these tools and developing a standard profile for describing them.

Timetable: Under development

  • Stefan Kramer, Cornell (Chair)
  • Katherine McNeill, MIT
  • Jannik Jensen, Danish Data Archive

Web Site Maintenance Group

Charge: This group maintains the DDI Alliance Web site, which is built using the Drupal content management system, and adds new content as appropriate. New members are welcomed. To join the group, please contact the DDI Alliance Director.