[DDI-users] RC33 Conference, CfP for session on metadata in the context of social science methodology

[Jon Johnson]

Dear DDI Users

We are soliciting proposals for papers in the following session at the RC33 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology which is taking place in Leicester, England on 11-15 September 2016. The last Conference in 2012 had a session on metadata and was well received.

The scope for the session:
Recent Developments in Metadata Capture, Discovery and Harmonization in the Social Sciences

This session invites presentations dealing with structured metadata in a standardized form across the survey life-cycle: 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. There is increased interest in supporting the comparison and harmonization of studies/waves over space and time, and across studies, especially at the level of theoretical concepts, questions, and variables to which structured metadata is well suited.

Capturing metadata as early on in the survey life-cycle as possible in a structured way enhances transparency and quality, enables reproducible research and reuse of survey components for other waves or surveys.

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 which assist 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 and implementers, data and metadata managers, information system managers of cross-national surveys, metadata experts, and others.

To submit a paper abstract for the RC33 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, you should visit: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/research/rc33-conference. After landing on the homepage, navigate to ‘Abstract Submission’ and choose the session Jon Johnson and Joachim Wackerow

Please note that the max length of abstracts is 5000 characters, and the deadline for the Call For Papers is Jan 12, 2016.

If you would like to discuss your proposal prior to submission please contact us at either of the email address’s below.

Thanks

Jon Johnson, j.johnson at ioe.ac.uk<mailto:j.johnson at ioe.ac.uk>, UCL Institute of Education,
Joachim Wackerow, joachim.wackerow at gesis.org<mailto:joachim.wackerow at gesis.org>, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences



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