[DDI-users] New DDI Trainer Selected

[Mary Vardigan]

Dear DDI Community,

I am pleased to announce that Michelle Edwards from the Cornell Institute
for Social and Economic Research (CISER) at Cornell University in the US
has been chosen as the new DDI trainer. She will participate in the
training workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl on October 12-16.

Michelle has an MLIS degree and has been active in the academic library
community for several years. While at the University of Guelph, she helped
to develop a Best Practices document for DDI markup to be used by data
librarians across Canada. She also presented about the merits and benefits
of DDI to the Statistics Canada Standards Division. With respect to
instruction, she has taught several courses and workshops on topics such as
using secondary data, working with statistical software, and quantitative
literacy. Looking ahead, Michelle has a vision "to bring DDI to the
researchers in a form they will embrace and use," and she has a number of
concrete ideas related to realizing this vision.

Five very qualified people applied for the position, so we know there is
continued interest, and we hope to offer this program again in coming years
with support from the DDI Alliance and GESIS.

Kind regards,
Mary

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Mary Vardigan
Director, DDI Alliance
Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR)
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone: 734-615-7908
Fax: 734-647-8200
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