<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear DDI Community,<br><br></div>I am pleased to announce that Michelle Edwards from the Cornell
Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) at Cornell University
in the US has been chosen as the new DDI trainer. She will participate in the training workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl on October 12-16. <br><br>Michelle has an MLIS degree and has been active in the
academic library community for several years. While at the University of
Guelph, she helped to develop a Best Practices document for DDI markup
to be used by data librarians across Canada. She also presented about
the merits and benefits of DDI to the Statistics Canada Standards
Division. With respect to instruction, she has taught several courses
and workshops on topics such as using secondary data, working with
statistical software, and quantitative literacy. Looking ahead, Michelle
has a vision "to bring DDI to the researchers in a form they will
embrace and use," and she has a number of concrete ideas related to
realizing this vision.<br>
<br> Five very qualified people applied for the
position, so we know there is continued interest, and we hope to offer
this program again in coming years with support from the DDI Alliance and GESIS. <br>
<br></div>Kind regards,<br></div>Mary<br><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Mary Vardigan<br>Director, DDI Alliance<br>Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)<br>P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106<br>Phone: 734-615-7908<br>Fax: 734-647-8200<br></div>
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