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- 15th European DDI Users Conference: Call for Papers
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- Achim Wackerow and Michelle Edwards elected as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Scientific Board
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- Annual Meeting of Member Representatives: 1 June 2019 in Sydney, AU
- Annual Meetings Held in Bergen, Norway
- CESSDA Data Catalogue updated
- CESSDA Vocabulary Service tool now available
- CODATA / DDI training webinar ‘The DDI Standards and Technology: Adapting to Change’, 17 October at 1400 UTC
- CODATA-DDI Alliance webinaire en français: Vive les Métadonnées!
- CODATA-Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Training Webinars – 2022 series announced!
- Call for Nominations : DDI Executive Board
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- Call for Papers for EDDI2015 Announced
- Call for Papers for the 10th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI18)
- Call for Papers: 6th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI14) DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle
- Call for Papers: European DDI Conference (26-29 November 2023)
- Call for Papers: European DDI User Conference 2021
- Call for Participation: New RDF Equivalence Working Group
- Call for contributions: Implementation Languages Across the DDI Suite of Products
- Call for participants: DDI-CDI Workshop at Dagstuhl, Sept. 2023
- Cancellation of DDI in-person annual meeting, and virtual meeting planning
- Chair of the DDI Scientific Board presented at the Sixth Session of OIC Statistical Commission
- Community Input Requested: DDI-Codebook Enhancements
- Conference On Smart Metadata for Official Statistics 2024 (COSMOS 2024) - Call for Contributions
- DDI 4 Prototype Release
- DDI Alliance / CODATA Training Webinar Series Continues
- DDI Alliance Accomplishments in 2020
- DDI Alliance Annual Meeting: 18 May 2020 in Gothenburg, Sweden
- DDI Alliance Executive Board election results
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- DDI Alliance FY2021 funding requests
- DDI Alliance ID Registry Updates
- DDI Alliance Panelists at the Government of Canada Data Conference 2021
- DDI Alliance Public Review: DDI-Codebook (Version 2.6)
- DDI Alliance Scientific Work Plan, 2021-2022
- DDI Alliance Secretariat Offices Closed 23 December to 2 January
- DDI Alliance Secretariat Offices Closed Dec. 24-Jan. 2
- DDI Alliance Strategic Plan, 2021-2023
- DDI Alliance Virtual Annual Meetings
- DDI Alliance annual meeting: 1 June at the UNSW Sydney
- DDI Alliance is a Sponsor of the 2nd IASSIST Africa Regional Workshop
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- DDI Annual Meetings
- DDI Bylaws amendments approved
- DDI Community Newsletter, December 2023
- DDI Developers Hackathon - Registration and Submission of Challenges now open
- DDI Developers Hackathon 2024 - Registration and Submission of Challenges now open
- DDI Developers Virtual Meeting (2024-01-19) Recording
- DDI Developers virtual meeting 2024-01-19 10:00 CET
- DDI Directions Newsletter Published
- DDI Directions newsletter published
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- DDI Executive Board Election Results (March 2023)
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- DDI Lifecycle - 4.0 beta announcement
- DDI Lifecycle 3.3 specification available for final public review and comment
- DDI Lifecycle Training to be Held at Dagstuhl in October
- DDI Meet and Greet for World Preservation Day on November 2, 16:00 UTC
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- DDI Questions and Questionnaires Working Group first meeting: 10 April 2024
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- DDI Scientific Community Meeting: Recording and Slides Available
- DDI Scientific Community Virtual Meeting: January 27, 2022
- DDI Scientific Community meeting to review and gather input for the Scientific Work Plan (March 28, 2023 from 10:00 to 11:30 EDT/16:00 to 17:30 CEST)
- DDI Sponsorship of the 3rd IASSIST Africa Regional Workshop (October 2023)
- DDI Technical Committee Meeting Report
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- DDI Train the Trainer workshop to be hosted by GESIS in September -- apply by July 22
- DDI Training Group looking for help creating how-to videos
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- DDI Webinar for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Community
- DDI XKOS released for public use
- DDI articles in the latest issue of the IASSIST Quarterly
- DDI at Virtual SciDataCon 2021
- DDI metadata featured in U.S. National Academies report, "Transparency in Statistical Information"
- DDI work products listed in FAIRsharing
- DDI, FAIR, and the Emergent Role of Active Metadata: a CODATA-DDI Alliance webinar for the RDA Decade of Data
- DDI-CDI in Focus: 2023 Dagstuhl Workshops
- DDI-CDI: Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse, Workshop 24 March 2023: Registration Open
- DDI-CODATA Meeting Summary Report: “Interoperability of Metadata Standards in Cross-Domain Science, Health, and Social Science Applications II”
- DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 -- Question and Answer session
- DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 Overview Presentation
- DDI4 Development Draft Available for Comment
- DDI4 Sprint to Take Place in Minneapolis in May 2015
- Data Enhancement Training in French with DDI
- EDDI 2015 Registration Opens
- EDDI 2020 Report
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- EDDI Conference Held in Berlin
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- EDDI Conference Held in Tampere, Finland
- EDDI Tutorial: 'Introduction to DDI', Paris, 28 Nov - recording and slides now available!
- EDDI16: Draft Program Available and Registration Open
- EDDI19 - 11th Annual European DDI User Conference: Call for Papers
- EDDI19 – 11th Annual European DDI User Conference
- EDDI22 Paris - Call for Papers Open
- EDDI: December 5-6 in Lausanne, Switzerland
- European DDI (EDDI) User Conference 2023 Report
- European DDI Users Conference (EDDI): 27-29 November
- European Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) User Conference (EDDI21): Call for Proposals
- European Statistical System’s vocabularies modelled using XKOS
- Event Reports: Expert Workshops in September 2021
- Expert Workshops in September
- Extended deadline: North American DDI conference Call for Proposals
- FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research
- February 2017 DDI Directions (Volume XV, Number 1) published
- Feedback Requested: Scientific Board restructuring proposal
- First Webinar in DDI Training Series
- Four New Members Elected to DDI Alliance Executive Board
- Free, Virtual DDI Metadata Training: 28 November (13:00-15:30 CET)
- Invitation to participate in a joint Technical Committee and DDI 4 Development sprint to be held at DIW Berlin, November 26-30, 2018
- Jared Lyle to Serve as DDI Director
- June 2019 DDI Alliance Annual Meeting Minutes Available
- Letter Signed to Build Collaboration between DDI Alliance and CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council
- Members selected for temporary working group to propose a restructuring of the Scientific Board
- Metadata Workshop to be Held at Schloss Dagstuhl in October
- NADDI 2016 Call for Abstracts
- NADDI 2016 Report
- NADDI 2017 Call for Papers
- NADDI Conference Held in Ithaca, New York
- NADDI Conference Held in Ottawa, Canada
- NADDI Conference Held in Washington, D.C.
- NADDI Conference to Take Place in Madison, Wisconsin, April 8-10, 2015
- NADDI conference to open with distinguished panel of Census experts
- New DDI 3.3 specification available for public review and comment
- New DDI Alliance Privacy Policy
- New DDI Glossary Working Group
- New DDI Slack Collaborative Workspace
- New Executive Board Chair and Vice Chair
- New Paper: DDI-Lifecycle Facilitates Cross-Study Linking of Cognitive Data
- New Report: "The Role of DDI-CDI in EOSC: Possible Uses and Applications"
- New Training Working Group Co-Chairs
- New Video: Introduction to DDI Metadata
- New Working Group: DDI Workflows for Dataverse
- Next Annual Meeting of Member Representatives: 1 June 2019 in Sydney, Australia
- Next Annual Meeting of Member Representatives: 18 May 2020 in Gothenburg, Sweden
- North American DDI conference -- registration open + agenda
- North American DDI conference -- registration open + agenda posted
- North American DDI conference Call for Proposals now open!
- North American DDI conference Call for Proposals now open!
- North American DDI conference Call for Proposals now open!
- North American DDI conference cancelled, to be replaced by virtual presentations
- Opportunity for New DDI Trainer
- Panel Session at DCMI Conference: The Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework: Coordinating Standards for Scalable, Practical FAIR Sharing
- Provisional Program Published for European DDI User Conference
- Public Release of DDI Lifecycle 3.3
- Public Release of Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) - Version 1.0
- Public Review of DDI 3.3 -- extended
- Public Review of XKOS
- Public Review: DDI - Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI)
- Public Review: Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL)
- Questions and Questionnaires - New DDI Working Group
- Re-establishing the DDI Marketing Group and seeking new leadership
- Register now! ‘DDI, FAIR, and the emergent role of active metadata: a CODATA-DDI Alliance webinar for the RDA Decade of Data'. Online, 4 May 2023
- Register now: DDI Controlled Vocabularies, the CESSDA Workbench, SKOS and XKOS
- Registration for EDDI 2020 is now open
- Registration for EDDI22 is now open!
- Registration is open for the European DDI Conference 2023
- Review of Q2 2016 Development Draft of DDI 4 - Extended Review Period
- Review of Q2 2016 Development Draft of DDI 4
- Review of RDF Vocabularies Under Way
- SDMX Releases Validation and Transformation Language (VTL) for Review
- Save the Date - North American DDI Conference: April 5-6, 2018
- Save the Date: DDI Alliance Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada (28 May)
- Save the Date: DDI Alliance to Meet in Lawrence, Kansas in May
- Save the Date: DDI Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (May 30, 13:00-17:00 EDT)
- Save the Date: DDI Developers Hackathon in Gothenburg, March 24 & 25, 2023
- Save the Dates + Registration: Virtual 2024 DDI Annual Meetings
- Scientific Board News, Fall 2022
- Scientific Board meetings + leadership
- Seeking DDI Alliance funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2021-June 2022)
- Seeking DDI Alliance funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2022-June 2023)
- Seeking DDI Alliance funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2023-June 2024)
- Seeking DDI Alliance funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2024-June 2025)
- Seeking DDI Executive Board nominations
- Seeking DDI Scientific Board nominations
- Seeking Nominations for DDI Executive Board Vacancy
- Seeking Nominations for a DDI Executive Board Vacancy
- Seeking Nominations for a DDI Scientific Board vacancy
- Seeking feedback on the draft DDI Alliance Strategic Plan, 2024-2027
- Seeking nominations for temporary working group to propose a restructuring of the DDI Scientific Board
- Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) Vote
- Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) Webinar: 2 November
- Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) Webinar: Recording and Slides
- Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) approved
- Summary Report: Dagstuhl “Interoperability for Cross-Domain Research: Machine-Actionability & Scalability” Workshop
- The DDI Training Group welcomes two new co-chairs: Jane Fry and Anja Perry
- Two Workshops to be Held at Schloss-Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
- UNECE task team to increase the understanding of how DDI and SDMX can support standard-based modernisation
- Upcoming DDI4 Sprints
- Update on DDI 4 project management and consultants
- Update on DDI work product development
- Update on EDDI 2015 Conference in Copenhagen
- Updating Hosting of DDI Mailing Lists
- Waived IASSIST workshop fee for DDI Alliance members
- Webinar (28 March): DDI Working Together with Other Standards
- Webinar on Implementing FAIR: What DDI Can Do for You!
- Webinar to Explain DDI Scientific Board Restructuring: 24 November
- Webinar to Explain DDI Scientific Board Restructuring: Recording
- Webinar: Register now! ‘Statistical Agencies Using DDI Metadata Standards: Promoting Transparency and Reusability of Data’. Online, 14 April 2023
- Webinar: The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison. Thu 9 March 2023
- Webinars: Data Description with DDI-CDI
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- WorldFAIR Report Underscores Value of DDI Metadata
- call for DDI Scientific Board Vice-Chair nomination
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