[DDI-users] Report from ESRA

[Jon Johnson]

For those not able to make ESRA, some highlights

There was a lot of activity and interest at the conference on data documentation and metadata more broadly.  Most sessions were well attended (on average about 25), with a wide range of participants.

Assuring Measurement Quality in the Social Sciences - new standards for quality documentation
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=56&day=1
Full working paper at http://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_WP_245.pdf
Interesting ideas on a framework for documenting question quality that might have legs for the next version of DDI.

The New Data Sharing Environment: Increasing Options, Increasing Access
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=28&day=1
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=161

Social science data harmonization and replication: challenges and solutions for the 21st century
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=30#292
The Inter-Disciplinary Importance of Data Harmonization
Interesting discussions on what social science can learn from biomedical / genetic research.
Harmonizing longitudinal data using CharmStats: the Australian Election Study
Update on progress on CharmStats and a Pro version is coming

Recent developments in survey metadata capture, discovery and harmonisation
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=105
Incentivising the uptake of re-usable metadata in the survey production process
Report from the UK on encouraging uptake of structured metadata
Utilising DDI 3.2 in the Survey Process with IBM SPSS Data Collection
The first fruits of incentivising data collection agencies to come on board with DDI
The DASISH Questionnaire Design Documentation Tool: Functionalities, DDI usage, and outlook for further work
CESSDA development overview, see gitHub

https://github.com/DASISH/survey-tools-metadata

https://github.com/DASISH/QDDT

https://github.com/DASISH/QVDB
Rich Metadata: The Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys Case Study
Using Blaise to generate DDI and using it

Structured Metadata: applications, processes, perspectives
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=29

Metadata Begins At The Moment Of Instrument Design
Using Metadata For Rules-Based Data Ingestion In A Secure Data Repository
Update on Nooro
Metadata Driven Integrated Statistical Data Management System
Work at Latvia on a new internal platform for managing stats
Rogatus - an open source framework to cover the whole data management lifecycle
Ingo presenting the latest updates to Rogatus
Using a generic process model to implement metadata-driven applications -- the example of DDI on Rails
Marcel updating on DDI on Rails


Jon Johnson
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