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<p class="MsoNormal">For those not able to make ESRA, some highlights<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There was a lot of activity and interest at the conference on data documentation and metadata more broadly. Most sessions were well attended (on average about 25), with a wide range of participants.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Assuring Measurement Quality in the Social Sciences - new standards for quality documentation<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=56&day=1">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=56&day=1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Full working paper at <a href="http://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_WP_245.pdf">
http://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_WP_245.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting ideas on a framework for documenting question quality that might have legs for the next version of DDI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The New Data Sharing Environment: Increasing Options, Increasing Access<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=28&day=1">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=28&day=1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=161">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=161</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Social science data harmonization and replication: challenges and solutions for the 21st century<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=30#292">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=30#292</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Inter-Disciplinary Importance of Data Harmonization</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting discussions on what social science can learn from biomedical / genetic research.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Harmonizing longitudinal data using CharmStats: the Australian Election Study<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Update on progress on CharmStats and a Pro version is coming</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Recent developments in survey metadata capture, discovery and harmonisation<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=105">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=105</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Incentivising the uptake of re-usable metadata in the survey production process<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Report from the UK on encouraging uptake of structured metadata
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Utilising DDI 3.2 in the Survey Process with IBM SPSS Data Collection<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The first fruits of incentivising data collection agencies to come on board with DDI<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The DASISH Questionnaire Design Documentation Tool: Functionalities, DDI usage, and outlook for further work<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">CESSDA development overview, see gitHub<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://github.com/DASISH/survey-tools-metadata">https://github.com/DASISH/survey-tools-metadata</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://github.com/DASISH/QDDT">https://github.com/DASISH/QDDT</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://github.com/DASISH/QVDB">https://github.com/DASISH/QVDB</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rich Metadata: The Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys Case Study<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Using Blaise to generate DDI and using it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Structured Metadata: applications, processes, perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=29">http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=29</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Metadata Begins At The Moment Of Instrument Design<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Using Metadata For Rules-Based Data Ingestion In A Secure Data Repository<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Update on Nooro<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Metadata Driven Integrated Statistical Data Management System<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Work at Latvia on a new internal platform for managing stats<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rogatus - an open source framework to cover the whole data management lifecycle<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Ingo presenting the latest updates to Rogatus<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Using a generic process model to implement metadata-driven applications -- the example of DDI on Rails<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marcel updating on DDI on Rails<o:p></o:p></p>
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