[DDI-users] Call for Papers: 2st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting

[Joachim Wackerow]

Call for Papers
2st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting
DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle

Location:		The Hague, Netherlands
Date:			December 8-9, 2010
Submission Deadline:	September 12, 2010
Program Committee:	Nikos Askitas (IZA), Eric Balster (CentERdata), John 
Doove (SURF), Rob Grim (Tilburg University), Laurents Sesink (DANS), 
Joachim Wackerow (chair, GESIS)
Hosted by:		Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

EDDI 2010 is organized jointly by CentERdata - Institute for Data 
Collection and Research, DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services, 
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, IZA - The Institute 
for the Study of Labor, SURF (the collaborative organization for IT 
innovations in higher education in the Netherlands), and Library and IT 
Services of Tilburg University.

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.

We are very delighted that Herbert Van de Sompel, Lead of the Digital 
Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National 
Laboratory Research Library, will deliver the plenary speech to EDDI 
2010, and that the DDI Alliance will be sponsoring a half day DDI course 
on Wednesday, December 8 to be taught by Wendy Thomas, University of 
Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center.

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 online 
submission system at IZA. The deadline for submissions is September 12, 
2010. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.

There will be a subsidized rate for registration of 50 EUR per person. 
The fee is applicable to everyone taking part or contributing to the 
conference.

Further information is available at:
http://www.iza.org/eddi10

The poster of the event may be found here:
http://www.iza.org/eddi/ddi-flyer-2010.pdf

Best regards
Joachim Wackerow

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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Department: Monitoring Society and Social Change
Unit: Social Science Metadata Standards
Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262
Fax: +49 (0)621 1246 100
E-mail: joachim.wackerow at gesis.org
www.gesis.org/en/institute/