[DDI-users] Fwd: IASST-L Help make survey data re-usable - endorse our universal questionnaire metadata standards here

Mary Vardigan vardigan at umich.edu
Tue Nov 18 13:08:05 EST 2014


Dear DDI Community,

Please join us in endorsing these shared principles of metadata reuse
across the lifecycle -- see below.

Mary
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From: Corti, Louise <corti at essex.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:27 AM
Subject: IASST-L Help make survey data re-usable - endorse our universal
questionnaire metadata standards here
To: "iasst-l at lists.columbia.edu" <iasst-l at lists.columbia.edu>


Dear IASSISTers,

Please forward this on to your survey owner and producer colleagues!

Making survey metadata reusable across the lifecycle – please endorse the
shared principles

We are asking our colleagues and organisations who produce and utilise
survey data to endorse some new principles which will make it easier to
re-use survey metadata across the data lifecycle.

Currently there are obstacles to creating re-usable documentation for data.
In particular, the metadata journey from owner to producer back to owner
and to archive still uses relatively old-fashioned processes, which rely on
manual intervention and some replication of activities.

We need to reduce the inefficiency of the current processes of
questionnaire specification, capture of its implementation using Computer
Assisted Interviewing (CAI) software, and delivery of data to owners and
archives. These processes can be assisted by using interoperable standards,
particularly for questionnaire metadata.

At the UK Data Service and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, (Institute
of Education) we agree that the best approach is to use a recognised
international metadata standard, such as the Data Documentation Initiative
(DDI). This is already used by most international survey data archives. At
the Survey Metadata: Barriers and Opportunities meeting held on in June
2014, survey owners, producers, CAI suppliers, and archives from the UK
discussed, and agreed to support, a set of principles and a minimal subset
of the DDI metadata standard for questionnaire description.

The emphasis is very much on a pragmatic solution, so we’re asking those
organisations working in this area to read and endorse the final set of
principles hosted on the DDI community site and, optionally, view the
questionnaire metadata profile. Further details can be found here, as well
as the link to endorse the recommended standard.

Survey Metadata Reusability and Exchange: A Call to Action for
Questionnaire Documentation:

http://www.ddialliance.org/
<http://www.ddialliance.org/survey-metadata-reusability-and-exchange>
survey-metadata-reusability-
<http://www.ddialliance.org/survey-metadata-reusability-and-exchange>
and-exchange
<http://www.ddialliance.org/survey-metadata-reusability-and-exchange>

Many thanks!
Louise
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Louise Corti
Functional Director, Collections Development and Producer Relations
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T +44(0) 1206 872145
E corti at essex.ac.uk
W ukdataservice.ac.uk
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UK Data Service
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
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Mary Vardigan
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