From lyle at umich.edu Fri Dec 1 01:02:49 2017 From: lyle at umich.edu (Jared Lyle) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 01:02:49 -0500 Subject: [DDI-users] Extended deadline: North American DDI conference Call for Proposals Message-ID: *North American DDI 2018 conference: Call for Proposals Deadline Extended!* The Call for Proposals for the 6th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) has been extended to December 15, 2017. 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. *NADDI 2018 Theme* The conference theme is "Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards," which 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. Proposals can include: - Presentations - Panels - Posters - Workshops or Tutorials *Important Information* - *December 15*: Deadline for conference proposals - *January 5*: Notification of acceptance - *February 14*: Early-bird registration deadline - *Conference Dates*: April 4-6, 2018 - *Conference Location*: Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. *How to Submit* Submissions may be made through the conference web site . The proposal deadline is December 15, 2017. *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/20171201/c4342755/attachment.html From lyle at umich.edu Tue Dec 19 23:58:15 2017 From: lyle at umich.edu (Jared Lyle) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:58:15 -0500 Subject: [DDI-users] Update on DDI work product development Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Since our inception in 1995, the DDI Alliance has developed work products to meet the evolving needs of our user communities and changes in technology. Our stable work products include: - DDI-Codebook (DDI 2) ? an XML structure for describing codebooks (or data dictionaries), for a single study. - DDI-Lifecycle (DDI 3) ? an XML structure that expands on the coverage of a single study along the data lifecycle and can describe several waves of data collection, and even ad hoc collections of datasets grouped for the purposes of comparison. The Alliance continues to support, develop, and encourage the adoption of these specifications. At the same time, the Alliance is continuing development to meet new user and technology needs, especially to address limitations of the standard. Our newest development is what we are calling DDI 4 and will be very different from earlier DDI work products because it will be based on an information model of the metadata content. This information model will be available for implementation in standard RDF vocabularies and standard XML structures, which will be equivalent. This form of model-based standard is a best practice in the world of standardization, and several other standards in other domains have been using this approach for many years. Developing DDI 4 is a way of protecting the standard against technological change, and a way of guaranteeing alignment across different technology implementations. [1] Work on DDI 4 has been underway for several years and we are planning to release a prototype of the specification in mid-2018. This preliminary version is not intended for production but will provide an opportunity to test and provide feedback on how the DDI 4 model describes and documents some basic research material, such as a dataset, an instrument, and a codebook. A specific list of possible use cases will be made available to review and apply once the prototype is released. The Alliance will provide additional information about the prototype release in the coming months. In the meantime, feel free to contact ddisecretariat at umich.edu with questions. DDI Alliance Executive Board Steve McEachern, Australia Data Archive (Chair) William Block, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (Vice Chair) Catherine Fitch, Minnesota Population Center Dana M?ller, Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research Barry Rader, University of Wisconsin-Madison Joachim Wackerow, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Margaret Levenstein, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Jared Lyle, ICPSR and DDI Alliance Director (ex officio) [1] For more details about DDI 4, please see the Work Products of the DDI Alliance web page, as well as the Alliance working paper ?Developing a Model-Driven DDI Specification ?. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20171219/41ef6b21/attachment.html From farrah.sanjari at canada.ca Wed Dec 20 10:46:28 2017 From: farrah.sanjari at canada.ca (Sanjari, Farrah (STATCAN)) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:46:28 +0000 Subject: [DDI-users] DDI 3.1 Validator Recommendations Message-ID: Hello, I'm currently working on a DDI 3.1 project (eventually moving to DDI 3.2) and we're looking to test the lifecycle xml schema we've created. Based upon my research, Colectica 5, specifically the Reader seems to be the best program to do this seeing as it supports DDI 3.1 and 3.2. Does anyone in the DDI community have any other suggestions/recommendations for a DDI 3.1 validator? Thank you! Farrah Sanjari Recruit - Analytical Studies, Methodology and Statistical Infrastructure Field Statistics Canada / Government of Canada farrah.sanjari at canada.ca / Tel: 613-404-1934 Recrue - Secteur des ?tudes analytiques, de la m?thodologie et de l'infrastructure statistique Statistique Canada / Gouvernement du Canada farrah.sanjari at canada.ca / T?l. : 613-404-1934 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20171220/c0b36095/attachment.html