[DDI-users] 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting, Dec 8-9, Utrecht

[Joachim Wackerow]

Call for Participation for the
2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting

DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle
December 8 - 9, 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hosted by SURFfoundation

EDDI is designed to provide an annual European forum where DDI users 
from Europe can gather to showcase their work and their progress toward 
DDI adoption, as well as discuss any questions or challenges they may 
have about the standard.

EDDI10 includes 20 presentations on case studies, interplay of DDI with 
other standards, software implementations, reports of working groups, 
and discussion sessions. Peter Wittenburg, Technical Director of the Max 
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 
will deliver the plenary speech.

The program, abstracts, and information on the venue and the 
registration are available on the EDDI website:
http://www.iza.org/eddi10

When you are interested to participate, please register soon. There is a 
maximum capacity of 70 persons.


Two additional events take place prior to EDDI10:

1. Half-day course on DDI 3: Putting DDI to Work for You (Wendy Thomas, 
Minnesota Population Center), morning of December 8.

2. 2.5-day meeting of developers working on DDI implementations. Agenda 
topics will include interoperability, open source tools, promoting DDI 
tools, sharing experiences, and future collaboration.


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 - 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.

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

Further information on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) can be 
found at http://www.ddialliance.org/.

Kind regards
Joachim Wackerow
(chair of the program committee)

-- 
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/