DDI Training Offered in Bethesda, MD

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-10-30 15:28

The Next Frontier in Documenting Survey Data: What Data Producers and Archivists Need to Know about DDI, XML and SDMX December 2, 2008 9:30am - 3:30pm EDT, 4350 East West Highway Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814

This free, one-day workshop, sponsored by NORC at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Open Data Foundation, is intended for a non-technical audience and is targeted at data producers and archivists. The objectives of the workshop are twofold:

• To provide an introduction to the basics of some emerging data documentation standards, such as the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Standard (SDMX)

• To encourage adoption of these emerging data documentation standards

Please RSVP to Timothy M. Mulcahy by November 17, 2008, or call 301-634-9352.