[DDI-users] RC33 Session on Structured Metadata: Presentations online

[Wackerow, Joachim]

The presentations of the session on "The Role of Structured Metadata in Cross-national Surveys" at the RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology in last July are now online at the DDI Alliance website:
http://www.ddialliance.org/resources/publications/presentations

Abstracts of presentations: http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/presentations?searchField=&searchMatch=&search=&track=124

Description of the session:
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.

Other sessions of RC33: http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/trackPolicies

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/

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