There will be two workshops with a DDI focus offered at Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics, in Wadern, Germany, in September 2011:
Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Web
September 12-16, 2011
This workshop, to be held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany, will examine the metadata model of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) used in the Social, Behavioural, and Economic (SBE) sciences, and design an implementation of that model using the Semantic Web standards (RDF, OWL, etc.). Invited participants will represent the user community (data librarians, archivists, researchers, and data producers), DDI experts, and experts in the Semantic Web technologies and standards. The goal of the workshop is to develop a best practice for the publication of microdata and related metadata into the Linked Data Web, which might be put forward as a standard for use with data in this domain for dissemination on the Web.
DDI: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data — Best Practices
September 29-23, 2011
This symposium-style workshop, held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany, 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.