[DDI-users] REMINDER: CfP: The role of structured metadata in cross-national surveys / 8th Int. Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33)

[Wackerow, Joachim]

Call for Papers
The role of structured metadata in cross-national surveys
Session at the 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology
July 9-13, 2012, The University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
This session invites presentations dealing with structured metadata in a standardized form for cross-national surveys: models, systems and tools for i.e. instrument design, data entry, data processing, maintaining data documentation, and capturing and storing the metadata within a repository for later reuse. The emphasis is on metadata which supports comparison and harmonization of studies/waves over space and time, and across studies, especially metadata on the level of theoretical concepts, questions, and variables.
A wide range of different products and services for different users can be generated on the basis of computer-processable metadata like web-based information systems, traditional codebooks, command setups for statistical packages, question banks, and searching and locating of data. These generated products on the basis of structured metadata help users in the use or interpretation of the data.
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: reuse of metadata across space, time, and studies, metadata banks such as for questions and classifications, metadata-driven processes, and metadata-driven information systems, possibly using the major specification for social science metadata, DDI Lifecycle (DDI 3 branch of the Data Documentation Initiative).
The session is aimed at survey designers, data and metadata managers, information system managers of cross-national surveys, metadata experts, and others.
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This session is part of the track on cross-national surveys, which comprises following other sessions:

*        Assessing Equivalence of Survey Questions

*        Constructing Comparative Macro Data for Cross-national Survey Research

*        Cross-Cultural Survey Development and Pretesting

*        Evaluating Attitude Measures Across Countries and Survey Programs

*        Measuring Demographic and Socioeconomic Variables in Cross-national Perspective

*        Measuring Educational Attainment in Cross-national Surveys

*        Methods and Tools to Harmonize Data in Cross-national Surveys

*        Sampling for Cross-national Surveys

*        Survey Non-response in Comparative Perspective
Further information on this track is available at: http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/trackPolicies
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RC33 (the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology) has organised the International Conference on Social Science Methodology every four years, since 1984. It is now the major international forum for current and fundamental issues in social science methodology and since 1984 has attracted scholars from all over the world and from a diverse range of academic fields and disciplines.
The focus of the conference is on innovations and current best practice in all aspects of social science research methodology. It provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary methods, as applied in a range of settings and disciplinary contexts, to hear about emerging methods, tools, techniques and technologies, and to discover what resources are available to social science researchers and users of research.
The aim of the conference is to disseminate knowledge and promote methodological debate with the goal of contributing to the scientific development of social science research, particularly by building the evidence base to evaluate the efficacy, efficiency and rigour of the methods and techniques of social science research.
Papers on all aspects of social science methodology are welcome, including but not restricted to: critiques and analysis of the philosophical paradigms that underpin the logic of social research; issues in the formulation of research questions; the design of social research; methods of collecting data, and analysing them; research technologies; and issues relating social science methodology to research consumers.
The call for abstracts of papers opens September 2, 2011, and we are accepting submissions until December 1, 2011. Session convenors or the conference organisers will inform you of your abstract acceptance by December 19, 2011 and registrations will open on that date.
Abstracts will only be accepted through the online submission form<http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/presenter/submit?requiresPresenter=1>, and submission in any other form will not be accepted (instructions will be on the conference website).
The conference website provides information about the conference, including key dates and deadlines, and submission guidelines. You can sign up for regular updates and news about the conference on the website.
Conference website: http://rc33conference2012.acspri.org.au/
Please direct any general queries regarding the conference to: rc33conference at acspri.org.au<mailto:rc33conference at acspri.org.au>
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<mailto:joachim.wackerow at gesis.org>
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