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Call for Participation in the First European DDI Users Group

Submitted by icpsr-web on Fri, 2009-11-20 16:14

First Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting

"DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle" -- December 3 - 4, 2009, Bonn, Germany

Hosted by the International Data Service Center (IDSC) of IZA

Workshop: December 3 -- Afternoon

"Course on DDI 3: Putting DDI to Work for You" (Wendy Thomas, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center)

Conference Program

Opening Plenary:

Kevin Schürer, Director of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)

and the UK Data Archive (UKDA):

"Why DDI must succeed and the perils of it not doing so"

Presentations



  • Alerk Amin (CentERdata): "Questasy - Case Study"

  • Ingo Barkow (DIPF - Deusches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung): "Usage of a DDI structure in the NEPS Data Warehouse"

  • Martin Friedrichs (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences): "The case of CHARMCATS: Use of DDI3 for publishing harmonisation routines"

  • Rob Grim (Tilburg University): "The EVS and NKO subject portal for enhanced publications: Connecting archives and libraries with DDI"

  • Matti Heinonen/Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive): "Evaluation of DDI3: Marking-up ISSP 2006 Finnish data"

  • Jannik Jensen (Danish Data Archive): "Editing DDI"

  • Uwe Jensen (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences): "DDI 3 and re-use of metadata in archival processes"

  • Uwe Jensen (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences): "Considerations to support and implement DDI 3 in building the cessda-ERIC"

  • Simon Jones/Paul Lambert (University of Stirling): "Metadata Creation, Transformation and Discovery for Social Science Data Management: The DAMES Project Infrastructure"

  • Meinhard Moschner (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences): "Controlled vocabularies for DDI3 - a work in progress"

  • Marika Puumala (CentERdata): "How to Present an Application Based on DDI 3 to the World Out There? -Experiences from a project in which we have built an online survey data dissemination application based on DDI 3"

  • Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth): "Creating DDI Metadata for a diverse body of aggregate statistics: Experience with the GB Historical GIS"

  • Karsten Stephan (Higher Education Information System (HIS)): "Using a DDI 3 Based Single Source Approach to Increase the Efficiency of Social Science Research Processes"

  • Andias Wira-Alam (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences): "Implementing DDI 3.0 : A case study of the German Microsensus"

  • Denis Huschka (German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD)): "Developments of the Research Data Infrastructure in Germany since the end of the 90's"

The full program including abstracts and further information are available at: http://www.iza.org/eddi09. EDDI 2009 is organized jointly by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

The event is supported by the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD). The poster of the event may be found here.