Call for Participation in the First European DDI Users Group

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.