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<p class="MsoNormal">The presentations of the session on “The Role of Structured Metadata in Cross-national Surveys” at the RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology in last July are now online at the DDI Alliance website:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/resources/publications/presentations">http://www.ddialliance.org/resources/publications/presentations</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstracts of presentations: <a href="http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/presentations?searchField=&searchMatch=&search=&track=124">
http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/presentations?searchField=&searchMatch=&search=&track=124</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Description of the session:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This session invites presentations dealing with structured metadata in a standardized form for cross-national surveys: 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. The emphasis is on metadata which supports comparison and harmonization of studies/waves over space and time, and across studies, especially metadata on the level of theoretical concepts,
questions, and variables. 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. These generated products on the basis of structured metadata help users 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, data and metadata managers, information system managers of cross-national surveys, metadata experts, and others.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Other sessions of RC33: <a href="http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/trackPolicies">
http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/trackPolicies</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joachim Wackerow<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Department: Monitoring Society and Social Change<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Unit: Social Science Metadata Standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Fax: +49 (0)621 1246 100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">E-mail: joachim.wackerow@gesis.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">www.gesis.org/en/institute/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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