From lyle at umich.edu Thu Aug 3 02:31:43 2017 From: lyle at umich.edu (Jared Lyle) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 02:31:43 -0400 Subject: [DDI-users] Save the Date - North American DDI Conference: April 5-6, 2018 Message-ID: We are pleased to announce that the 2018 North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) will be held at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. on April 5-6, 2018. The Call for Papers will be published shortly and further details will be added to the Conference web site over the coming months. http://naddiconf.org/2018/ The theme for NADDI 2018, ?*Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards*?, emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies. Aimed at individuals working in and around data and metadata, NADDI 2018 seeks submissions of presentations and posters that highlight the use of DDI and other metadata standards within research projects, official statistics, survey operations, academic libraries, and data archives. Sent on behalf of the NADDI 2018 Organizing Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20170803/8b43aa58/attachment.html From jon.johnson at ucl.ac.uk Thu Aug 24 04:48:29 2017 From: jon.johnson at ucl.ac.uk (Johnson, Jon) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 08:48:29 +0000 Subject: [DDI-users] EDDI17 - 9th Annual European DDI User Conference: Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for any cross posting] A reminder that the deadline for Submissions is 4 September 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI17) DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle * Submission Deadline: September 4, 2017 * Place: Lausanne, Switzerland * Date: December 5/6, 2017 * Host: FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences * Conference web page: http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi17 EDDI17 is organized jointly by FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. The meeting will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the world. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and present. Call for Papers We are seeking presentations, talks, papers, posters on all things DDI: * Case Studies * Mature implementations * Early Implementations * Interplay of DDI with other standards or technologies * Projects in early phases in which DDI is under consideration * Critiques of DDI The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: * User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality * Official Statistics * Reusing and Sharing Metadata * Data Harmonization * Incentives to Document Data * Open Data and Linked Open Data * Privacy and Access Control * Metadata versus Data and Related Ethics * Software / Tools Submission Proposals are welcome for multiple content types and presentation forms. Content Types * Scientific Method * Impact for the Community * Project Report Presentation Forms * Full Paper * Communications * Regular Presentation * Short Presentation * Poster/Software Demonstration * Complete Session Other Submission Types * Tutorial or Workshop * Side Meeting If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please have a look at the overview on submissions and use the online submission system of the conference. * The deadline for submissions is September 4, 2017. * Please have a look at the Call for Paper page for further details. * Please consider to indicate the availability as reviewer as well. General Information * For more information about the conference, see the conference web site at http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi17. * The Program Committee strategically develops, creates and organizes the program. * The Organization Committee coordinates the onsite work. * For questions or any other correspondence regarding the Call for Papers of EDDI17, please send an email to eddi17-prog at googlegroups.com. * Last year's presentations and posters are available at the EDDI16 website. For more information about the EDDI conference series and details on the previous EDDI conferences, look at http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/. Jon Johnson and Joachim Wackerow (co-chairs) on behalf of the EDDI17 Program Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20170824/7339b0fc/attachment-0001.html