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Call for Papers for EDDI Meeting in December

Wed, 2010-05-26 15:54 — icpsr-web
Second Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting (EDDI):
"DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle"
 
Location:                             The Hague, Netherlands
Date:                                     December 8-9, 2010
Submission Deadline:      September 12, 2010
Program Committee:      Nikos Askitas (IZA), Eric Balster (CentERdata), John Doove (SURF), Rob Grim (Tilburg University), Laurents Sesink (DANS), Joachim Wackerow (chair, GESIS)
Hosted by the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
 
EDDI 2010 is organized jointly by CentERdata – Institute for Data Collection and Research, DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, IZA - The Institute for the Study of Labor, SURF (the collaborative organization for IT innovations in higher education in the Netherlands), and Library and IT Services of Tilburg University. The 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 pleased to announce that Herbert Van de Sompel, Lead of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, will deliver the plenary speech to EDDI 2010, and that the DDI Alliance will be sponsoring a half-day DDI course on Wednesday, December 8, 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 to 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.
Last year, the successful first EDDI Meeting took place at IZA in Bonn (Germany) with 60 participants from 10 countries attending. The program offering 14 presentations is available at: http://www.iza.org/eddi09.
 

Submission

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please use the online submission system at IZA. The deadline for submissions is September 12, 2010. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.

Dagstuhl Seminar to Focus on DDI and Longitudinal Data

Thu, 2010-05-20 14:07 — icpsr-web

On October 17-22, there will be an advanced topics seminar held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany, with a focus on longitudinal data.

This symposium-style workshop will bring together representatives from major longitudinal data collection efforts to share expertise and to explore the use of the DDI metadata standard as a means of managing and structuring longitudinal study documentation. Participants will work collaboratively to create best practices for documenting longitudinal data in its various forms, including panel data and repeated cross-sections.

To inquire about the workshop, send email to ddi-expert-workshop@icpsr.umich.edu.

DDI Alliance Welcomes New Members

Mon, 2010-04-19 16:21 — icpsr-web

The DDI Alliance is pleased to welcome three new members into the Alliance:

European DDI Users Meeting to Take Place in the Netherlands

Mon, 2010-04-19 16:10 — icpsr-web

The second annual European Users Group (EDDI) meeting will take place on December 8-9, 2010, in the Hague in the Netherlands. The previous day, December 8, a half-day of DDI 3 training will be offered.

DDI Training Offered at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany

Mon, 2010-04-19 16:05 — icpsr-web

A training workshop for DDI 3 will take place at the Leibniz Center for Informatics, Schoss Dagstuhl, in Wadern, Germany, on October 25-29, 2010. The title of the workshop is "The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) XML Standard: Using DDI 3 to Support Preservation, Management, Access, and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data."

The previous week, October 18-22, there will be a special Advanced Workshop focusing on using DDI to document longitudinal data.

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