[DDI-users] DDI Directions Volume XIV, Number 2, February 2016

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 From the Director

This issue of DDI Directions includes a review of the successful EDDI  
conference in Denmark, as well as a reminder about the upcoming NADDI  
conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. There are a lot of exciting DDI  
4.0 activities announced, including DDI-Views, a report from the recent  
Copenhagen Sprint, and a save-the-date notice for the April Sprint at  
NADDI. Thanks go to Kelly Chatain for putting together this newsletter and  
to all of the hardworking people who support DDI and are helping to spread  
its adoption.

Jared Lyle, Director, DDI Alliance, lyle at umich.edu


In This Issue


Save the Date: DDI Alliance to Meet in Norway May 30th
New Members!
DDI Alliance Website Survey
Register for NADDI 2016, April 7-8 (Pre-Conference workshop April 6)
DDI at AAPOR in Austin, TX, May 12-15
7Th Annual EDDI Conference Held in Copenhagen, December 2015
DDI 4.0 Sprint Held in Copenhagen
Upcoming Sprints
DDI 4.0 Update
New Version of Colectica Released

Volume XIV, Number 2, February 2016

Save the Date: DDI Alliance to Meet in Norway May 30th
IASSIST 2016
The DDI Alliance will hold its annual meeting of members on Monday, May 30,  
2016, in Bergen, Norway, just before the start of the IASSIST conference.  
More details about the meeting will be available soon.






New Members!
Statistics Denmark
The DDI Alliance recently welcomed Statistics Denmark as a Full Member.  
Mogens Grosen Nielsen, Chief Adviser, Head of Metadata, will be the Member  
Representative.
Nooro Online Research
The Alliance also recently welcomed Nooro Online Research as an Associate  
Member.




DDI Alliance Website Survey

The redesigned DDI Alliance website launched in October 2015 and we'd like  
to know what you think! Along with a new design came new content: a  
training library, getting started how-to's, a new community section, and  
much more. As the DDI community grows we want to ensure that the Alliance  
site remains relevant, helpful, and informative for all audiences. Your  
feedback is vital to this effort, so please consider taking this 5 minute  
survey. And thank you!

Register for NADDI 2016, April 7-8 (Pre-Conference workshop April 6)
NADDI
Registration is now open for the North American DDI Users Conference hosted  
by the Health Research Data Repository, supported by the Faculty of Nursing  
at the University of Alberta in Edmonton! This year's theme is Document,  
Discover, and Interoperate. NADDI is a three-day event, with workshops on  
April 6 th and two days of presentations and meetings on April 7 th & 8 th .

NADDI provides opportunities to come together, connect, and learn from all  
who are actively using or are interested in learning about this  
community-developed metadata standard.

For more information please see the NADDI 2016 Conference site. The  
registration deadline is March 28, 2016. We hope to see you there!

DDI at AAPOR in Austin, TX, May 12-15

As part of ongoing efforts by the Marketing and Partnerships committee to  
promote DDI more broadly and gain new members, the DDI Alliance is  
targeting the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)  
annual conference this year, which will be held in Austin, TX, May 12-15.  
The AAPOR conference is one of the largest gatherings of survey researchers  
in the world. The Alliance is sharing a booth with ICPSR, several  
DDI-related papers have been accepted, and plans are underway to organize a  
side meeting for anyone interested in learning more about DDI. If you are  
planning to attend AAPOR, please contact Jared Lyle (lyle at umich.edu) - we  
would like to involve as many DDI community members as possible.

7Th Annual EDDI Conference Held in Copenhagen, December 2015

EDDI15, the 7th Annual European DDI User Conference, took place on December  
2-3, 2015, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference was hosted by Statistics  
Denmark (DST) and DDA/National Archive of Denmark, and organized jointly by  
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA -  
International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

There were 83 participants from 44 organizations in 15 countries in  
attendance. The conference program included 33 presentations and posters, 3  
tutorials, and 5 side meetings. Keynote addresses were given by Lars  
Thygesen and Carsten Zangenberg ("Building a statistics lighthouse for all  
decision makers"), and Henrik Pedersen ("The Danish National Forum for  
Research data Management").

Save the date for the next EDDI!
EDDI2016 will be held at GESIS Cologne on December 6-7, 2016.

DDI 4.0 Sprint Held in Copenhagen

A small team of DDI developers and designers gathered in Copenhagen prior  
to the EDDI15 conference. The top priority, automating the workflow for  
producing all work products and documentation, was successfully  
accomplished with a Bamboo build server and Ant process scripts. Design  
decisions accompanying this production system were also discussed and  
further defined. Topics included, but were not limited to, how Functional  
Views will be constructed and documented, RDF feedback from the Dagstuhl  
sprint, and the use of XMI and UML constructs. Read the full report on the  
DDI Collaboration Wiki, along with all of the supporting reports and  
documentation produced during the sprint.
Bamboo
Success!

Upcoming Sprints

The next DDI 4.0 sprint is planned for the week of April 11-15 in Edmonton,  
Alberta, Canada (the week after NADDI). The goal of the sprint is to  
complete a consistency review of the DDI4 modeling, particularly reviewing  
consistent use of patterns. If you can participate in the sprint (either in  
person or virtually), please contact Jared Lyle (lyle at umich.edu). More  
information will be posted here.

Another sprint is planned for the week of May 23-27 (the week before  
IASSIST). Details of this sprint, including goals and specific location in  
Norway, are under development.

DDI 4.0 Update

What's in a name?

As you look through the DDI Alliance collaboration site (Wiki, Issue  
Tracker, and Repository) you will see a new name cropping up, DDI-Views.  
The most innovative feature of DDI 4.0, from the user perspective, is the  
ability to focus on subsets of the overall library of classes by describing  
Functional Views. DDI-Views communicates this approach in a more meaningful  
way and will be used from now on for the products coming out of the Moving  
Forward Project.

The next Development Review of the DDI model is scheduled for the second  
quarter of 2016 and the DDI Technical Committee and Modeling Team look  
forward to a repeat of the high level of user response received during the  
first Development Review. The upcoming release will focus on the binding  
structures, the applied use of patterns such as collections and process  
models, and specific use Functional Views.

Preparation during this recent period has focused on ensuring the ability  
to produce accurate bindings for the model, automating and managing the  
production process, and clarifying what goes into a publication product.  
Results of the review process that took place during the Dagstuhl 2015  
Sprint were incorporated along with the production system work completed at  
the Copenhagen EDDI 2015 Sprint. A clearer view on the work process is now  
available via viewable repositories of development activities and clearer  
documentation of modeling and process activities on the Modeling Team page.

A revision of the release plan can be found on the Moving Forward, Project  
Management page. It is a fluid document that will change to take advantage  
of opportunities as they arise as well as respond to unexpected delays in  
any particular Library Package or Functional View preparation.

New Version of Colectica Released
Collectica
In November 2015, Colectica announced the availability of 5.2.

Major new features include:


Classification Management based on GSIM and Neuchâtel
Improved IBM SPSS Data Collection
New default documentation templates
Controlled Vocabulary support
Expanded supported DDI content
Enhanced programmability in the Colectica SDK nuget package
Hundreds of new features and improvements

Read more about Colectica 5.2 here.


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