[DDI-users] DDI Events: Dagstuhl Workshops and CfP for European User Group Meeting

[Joachim Wackerow]

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached information about two 5-day workshops on DDI in 
October in Dagstuhl, Germany and a call for papers for the "2nd Annual 
European DDI Users Group Meeting" in December in The Hague, Netherlands.
Please circulate it to your networks as appropriate.

Regards
Achim Wackerow

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DDI Training, "Using DDI 3 to Support Production, Management, 
Dissemination, and Preservation  Systems for Data in the Social Sciences 
and Economics" October 25-29, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.

This workshop is geared toward the staff of data producing agencies and 
archives. The five-day structure of this workshop provides the 
participants with an opportunity for in-depth assistance on the 
specialized features of DDI that are important to their organization's 
activities.

http://www.gesis.org/en/research/events/workshops/ddi-workshop/

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DDI Expert workshop on "Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data - Best 
Practices" October 18-22, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.

This workshop 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.
http://www.dagstuhl.de/10422

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2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting December 8-9, The Hague, 
Netherlands

The meeting will bring together DDI users and professionals from all 
over Europe. 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.

Last year, the successful first EDDI Meeting took place at IZA in Bonn 
(Germany) with 60 participants from 10 countries attending. The program 
offering 14 presentations is available at: http://www.iza.org/eddi09.

Submission
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please use the on-line 
submission system at IZA. The deadline for submissions is September 12, 
2010. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.

http://www.iza.org/eddi10


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