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NADDI conference to open with distinguished panel of U.S. Census experts

Submitted by lyle on Mon, 2018-03-05 00:00

The organizing committee of the North American Data Documentation Initiative (NADDI) conference is pleased to announce a distinguished panel of guests who will open the NADDI 2018 conference on April 5th with a plenary panel on the importance of open standards in federal statistics and research. Margaret Levenstein, Director of the Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, will moderate the panel. The distinguished panelists include:

  • John M. Abowd, Associate Director for Research and Methodology & Chief Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau; Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Cornell University
  • Robert M. Groves, Executive Vice President and Provost, Georgetown University; Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2012
  • John H. Thompson, Executive Director, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS); Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2013-2017; CEO, NORC at the University of Chicago, 2008-2013

All three panelists hold current and past positions at the U.S. Census Bureau, in addition to notable careers in the survey research, demographics, and statistical methodology fields. The NADDI 2018 conference is being hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and will include three days of presentations, training, and networking about the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the importance of documenting social science data and metadata using technical standards. DDI (http://www.ddialliance.org/) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.

For more information and to register, please see http://naddiconf.org/2018/.

North American DDI conference: registration open + agenda posted

Submitted by lyle on Wed, 2018-02-14 12:00

North American DDI 2018 conference: Registration open

Registration is now open for the 6th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI). The conference theme is "Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards," which emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.  The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.

Important Information

  • March 5: Early-bird registration deadline
  • Conference Dates: April 4-6, 2018
  • Conference Location: Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

NADDI 2018 Agenda

A distinguished plenary panel will open NADDI 2018 on April 5th.  Dr. Maggie Levenstein, Director of the Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, will moderate a discussion comprised of the following discussants:

  • Dr. John M. Abowd, Associate Director for Research and Methodology & Chief Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau; Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Cornell University
  • Dr. Robert M. Groves, Executive Vice President and Provost, Georgetown University; Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2012
  • Dr. John H. Thompson, Executive Director, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS); Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2013-2017; CEO, NORC at the University of Chicago, 2008-2013

Pre-conference workshops will be held on April 4th, with the main conference held April 5-6. The full agenda is on the conference web site

How to Register

Registration is found on the conference web site. The deadline for early-bird registration is March 5, 2018.

Update on DDI work product development

Submitted by lyle on Tue, 2017-12-19 23:50

Dear colleagues,

 

Since our inception in 1995, the DDI Alliance has developed work products to meet the evolving needs of our user communities and changes in technology.  Our stable work products include:

  • DDI-Codebook (DDI 2) – an XML structure for describing codebooks (or data dictionaries), for a single study.

  • DDI-Lifecycle (DDI 3) – an XML structure that expands on the coverage of a single study along the data lifecycle and can describe several waves of data collection, and even ad hoc collections of datasets grouped for the purposes of comparison.

 

​The Alliance continues to support, develop, and encourage the adoption of these specifications.

 

At the same time, the Alliance is continuing development to meet new user and technology needs, especially to address limitations of the standard.  Our newest development is what we are calling DDI 4 and will be very different from earlier DDI work products because it will be based on an information model of the metadata content. This information model will be available for implementation in standard RDF vocabularies and standard XML structures, which will be equivalent. This form of model-based standard is a best practice in the world of standardization, and several other standards in other domains have been using this approach for many years.  Developing DDI 4 is a way of protecting the standard against technological change, and a way of guaranteeing alignment across different technology implementations. [1]

 

Work on DDI 4 has been underway for several years and we are planning to release a prototype of the specification in mid-2018.  This preliminary version is not intended for production but will provide an opportunity to test and provide feedback on how the DDI 4 model describes and documents some basic research material, such as a dataset, an instrument, and a codebook. A specific list of possible use cases will be made available to review and apply once the prototype is released.

 

The Alliance will provide additional information about the prototype release in the coming months.  In the meantime, feel free to contact ddisecretariat@umich.edu with questions.

 

DDI Alliance Executive Board

Steve McEachern, Australia Data Archive (Chair)

William Block, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (Vice Chair)

Catherine Fitch, Minnesota Population Center

Dana Müller, Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research

Barry Rader, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Joachim Wackerow, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Margaret Levenstein, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Jared Lyle, ICPSR and DDI Alliance Director (ex officio)

 
 
[1] For more details about DDI 4, please see the Work Products of the DDI Alliance web page, as well as the Alliance working paper “Developing a Model-Driven DDI Specification”.

EDDI Conference Held in Lausanne

Submitted by lyle on Sat, 2017-12-09 16:26

EDDI17, the 9th Annual European DDI User Conference, took place December 5-6, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference was hosted by FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, and organized jointly by FORS, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

There were nearly 100 participants from over 50 organisations and 20 countries. The conference program included 28 presentations and 6 posters, 3 tutorials, and 2 side meetings. Keynote addresses were given by Ron Dekker ("DDI Is Not Enough"), and Ingo Barkow ("Research Data Management in Switzerland - a National Perspective").

Save the date for the next EDDI!

EDDI2018 will be hosted by SOEP (The Socio-Economic Panel) at DIW (German Institute for Economic Research) in Berlin, Germany December 4-5, 2018.

Extended deadline: North American DDI conference Call for Proposals

Submitted by lyle on Fri, 2017-12-01 01:17
North American DDI 2018 conference: Call for Proposals Deadline Extended!
The Call for Proposals for the 6th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) has been extended to December 15, 2017.  The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.
 
NADDI 2018 Theme
The conference theme is "Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards," which emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.  
 
Aimed at individuals working in and around data and metadata, NADDI 2018 seeks submissions of presentations and posters that highlight the use of DDI and other metadata standards within research projects, official statistics, survey operations, academic libraries, and data archives.

Proposals can include:

  • Presentations
  • Panels
  • Posters
  • Workshops or Tutorials
Important Information
  • December 15: Deadline for conference proposals
  • January 5: Notification of acceptance
  • February 14: Early-bird registration deadline
  • Conference Dates: April 4-6, 2018
  • Conference Location: Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.
How to Submit
Submissions may be made through the conference web site.  The proposal deadline is December 15, 2017.
 
Sent on behalf of the NADDI 2018 Organizing Committee

European DDI User Conference: December 5-6 in Lausanne, Switzerland

Submitted by lyle on Mon, 2017-11-27 21:55

The 9th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI16) will take place December 5-6, 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland. EDDI17 is organized jointly by FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, 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. Registration is open.  More information is available on the Conference web page.

North American DDI conference Call for Proposals now open!

Submitted by lyle on Sun, 2017-10-22 18:29
We are happy to announce the Call for Proposals for the 6th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI).  The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.
 
NADDI 2018 Theme
The conference theme is "Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards," which emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.  
 
Aimed at individuals working in and around data and metadata, NADDI 2018 seeks submissions of presentations and posters that highlight the use of DDI and other metadata standards within research projects, official statistics, survey operations, academic libraries, and data archives.

Proposals can include:

  • Presentations
  • Panels
  • Posters
  • Workshops or Tutorials
Important Information
  • December 1: Deadline for conference proposals
  • January 5: Notification of acceptance
  • February 14: Early-bird registration deadline
  • Conference Dates: April 4-6, 2018
  • Conference Location: Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.
How to Submit
Submissions may be made through the conference web site.  The proposal deadline is December 1, 2017.
 
Sent on behalf of the NADDI 2018 Organizing Committee

Welcome New Member: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Submitted by lyle on Wed, 2017-09-27 17:19

The DDI Alliance welcomes the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Kathleen Weldon. representative) as a Full Member! 

DDI Alliance Executive Board election results

Submitted by lyle on Wed, 2017-08-09 00:41

The DDI Alliance recently held elections to fill four seats on the Executive Board, which is responsible for managing the operations of the Alliance, including setting the overall policy and budget, and providing strategic guidance and review of the Alliance’s activities. Elected members of the Executive Board serve for a term of four years, with terms starting on July 1st.

The member representatives unanimously elected include:

  • Dr. Catherine Fitch is Associate Director of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) and founding Co-Director of the Minnesota Research Data Center (MnRDC), a United States Census Bureau Research Data Center (RDC).  Throughout her career, she has been closely involved in the creation of several MPC databases, including IPUMS (USA and International) and Terra Populus.
  • Dr. Steven McEachern is Director of the Australian Data Archive.  He has high-level expertise in survey methodology and data archiving, and has been actively involved in development and application of survey research methodology and technologies over fifteen years in the Australian university sector.  Steve currently serves as Chair of the DDI Executive Board and was first elected to the Board in 2013.
  • Dana Müller is Head of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research.  Dana worked as a researcher at the Technical University in Chemnitz before joining the staff of the Data Research Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at IAB.  Dana was first elected to the DDI Executive Board in January 2017.
  • Dr. Barry Radler is a Distinguished Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute on Aging and a researcher on the Midlife in the United State (MIDUS) study.  With 20 years of experience in the behavioral sciences, he has worked with universities, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.  Barry is Chair of the DDI Marketing and Partnerships Group.

Additionally, a special thank you goes to outgoing Board members, Leanne Trimble (University of Toronto) and Louise Corti (UK Data Archive).

Save the Date - North American DDI Conference: April 5-6, 2018

Submitted by lyle on Thu, 2017-08-03 02:36

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) will be held at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. on April 5-6, 2018.

The Call for Papers will be published shortly and further details will be added to the Conference web site over the coming months.

http://naddiconf.org/2018/

The theme for NADDI 2018, ‘Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards’, emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.

Aimed at individuals working in and around data and metadata, NADDI 2018 seeks submissions of presentations and posters that highlight the use of DDI and other metadata standards within research projects, official statistics, survey operations, academic libraries, and data archives.

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