News

The program for the first annual North American Data Documentation Initiative (NADDI) Conference is now available at: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/program.shtml
 
The NADDI Conference will take place on April 2 and 3 in Lawrence, Kansas and registration is now open. http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/registration.shtml.  Please register by March 5, 2013. A reduced registration rate is available for a limited number of graduate students.
 
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jay Greenfield http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/JayGreenfield.shtml of Booz Allen Hamilton where he is the semantic architect for a DDI Lifecycle based metadata system that supports the National Children's Study (NCS).
 
DDI is an international data standard for the observation and measurement of human activity. Although primarily used by quantitative social scientists, an increasing number of scientists in other disciplines are embracing DDI to document and manage their data and metadata. More information about DDI is available at: http://www.ddialliance.org/. 
 
The conference will be informative, interesting, and educational. There will be presentations on the use of DDI in research programs and data repositories, developments with DDI and demonstrations of new DDI tools. The NADDI Conference is an opportunity for those using DDI and those interested in learning more about it to come together and learn from each other. Patterned after the successful European DDI conference (EDDI), the conference will of interest to both researchers and data professionals in the social sciences and other disciplines.
 
Following the conference, on April 4, 2013, there will be a full day of training on the use of DDI. More information about the training is available at: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/training.shtml
 
Major funding for the conference has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. More information about the foundation is available here: http://www.sloan.org/ .
 
The conference is hosted and sponsored by the Institute for Policy & Social Research (http://www.ipsr.ku.edu ),  KU Libraries (http://lib.ku.edu/), the DDI Alliance (http://www.ddialliance.org/).
 

Following the working group meeting in Gothenburg in December 2011, a small group has been formed to work on defining a robust model for describing qualitative data, from data collection to archiving to re-use, convened by Arofan Gregory and Louise Corti.  At the Bergen meeting, held prior to EDDI12 meeting, progress was made to create a representative model, depicted by three class view diagrams (thanks to Larry Hoylel for his tireless work on this) plus detailed definitions of objects and their properties and relationships. The model and definitions will be available for external review in late January, so do watch this space.

European DDI User Conference in Bergen, Norway, on December 3-4

The schedule and a detailed program are now provided at:

http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi12/schedConf/program

Call for Papers -- 4th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI12)

DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle

Submission Deadline:     October 3, 2012
Place:                                  Bergen, Norway
Date:                                   December 3 - 4, 2012
Hosted by:                         NSD - Norwegian Social Science Data Services

EDDI 2012 is organized jointly by NSD - Norwegian Social Science Data Services, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

The meeting will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the world. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and present.

Call for Papers

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 which will 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.

Submission

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please use the online submission system of the conference. The deadline for submissions is October 3, 2012. Abstracts should have not more than 200 words. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.

Call for Tools / DDI Tools Award

We invite developers and practitioners to participate in the first DDI Tools Competition and show the world what can be done for visualizing the content of DDI instances. The main goal of the DDI Tools Competition is to develop innovative applications that show DDI-based information to the end-user. Conceivable examples are (but not limited to): generators for smart codebooks in form of PDF or Microsoft Help files, parts of web information systems or portals, and stand-alone applications. The tools should be able to consume DDI Lifecycle (3.1) instances, and should be made available as Free Software (i.e. source code as Open Source). Further details on the competition and on sample instances will be announced on October 8. Please use the online submission system of the conference to submit an abstract on your tool until October 3, 2012. The deadline for submissions of the final program code is November 17, 2012.

Keynote Speech

We are very delighted that Svein Nordbotten will deliver the plenary speech to EDDI 2012. Svein Nordbotten is professor emeritus (information science) at the University of Bergen and heading the research enterprise Svein Nordbotten & Associates. More about Svein and his publications can be found on his homepage.

Previous Meetings

Last year, the 3rd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting (EDDI11) took place at SND - Swedish National Data Service in Gothenburg, Sweden with 80 people from 17 countries and 3 international organizations in attendance (100 people in all including side meetings). The program offering 24 presentations is available at the EDDI11 website.

The 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting (EDDI10) took place at SURFfoundation in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2010 with almost 70 people from 13 countries attending. The program offering 24 presentations is available at the EDDI10 web site.

The 1st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting (EDDI09) took place in 2009 at IZA in Bonn, Germany with 60 participants from 10 countries attending. The program offering 14 presentations is available at the EDDI09 web site.

General Information

For more information about the conference, see the conference web site at: http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi12.

For questions or any other correspondence regarding the EDDI12, please send an email to eddi12@iza.org.