<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear <span class="" id=":b02.1" tabindex="-1" style="">DDI</span> community,</div><div><br></div>I strongly encourage participation in the recently announced <span class="" id=":b02.2" tabindex="-1" style="">DDI</span> Train the Trainer workshop (see description below). Please consider attending yourself, or recommending someone else. This is a great opportunity to learn more about <span class="" id=":b02.3" tabindex="-1" style="">DDI</span>, as well as spread the word about <span class="" id=":b02.4" tabindex="-1" style="">DDI</span> through creating training materials and teaching future workshops within your local communities. <br><br>Instruction on how to apply are detailed below. Special thanks to <span class="" id=":b02.5" tabindex="-1" style="">GESIS</span> - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences for hosting the workshop, and to Jon Johnson, Wendy Thomas, Dan Smith, and Joachim <span class="" id=":b02.6" tabindex="-1" style="">Wackerow</span> for organizing and teaching.<div><br></div><div>Jared<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#999999">Jared Lyle</font></div><div><font color="#999999">Director, <span class="" id=":b02.7" tabindex="-1" style="">DDI</span> Alliance</font></div><div><font color="#999999"><span class="" id=":b02.8" tabindex="-1" style="">ICPSR</span>, University of Michigan</font></div><div><font color="#999999">+1 734-763-6075</font></div><div><font color="#999999"><a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu" target="_blank"><span class="" id=":b02.9" tabindex="-1" style="">lyle</span>@<span class="" id=":b02.10" tabindex="-1" style="">umich</span>.<span class="" id=":b02.11" tabindex="-1" style="">edu</span></a></font><br><div></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:01 AM, <span class="" id=":b02.12" tabindex="-1" style="">Wackerow</span>, Joachim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Joachim.Wackerow@gesis.org" target="_blank">Joachim.<span class="" id=":b02.13" tabindex="-1" style="">Wackerow</span>@<span class="" id=":b02.14" tabindex="-1" style="">gesis</span>.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#365f91">Workshop<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoTitle">Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) - Train the Trainers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoSubtitle">Broadening Community Capacity and Adapting Training to Meet Institutional Needs<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b>September 24-28, 2018, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd">Course description<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The <a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/" target="_blank">
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)</a> is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. DDI can document and manage different stages in the research
data lifecycle, such as conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, and archiving.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The goal of this workshop is to build up more training capacity on DDI. The new trainers should then be able to teach specific tutorials for their institution or general purpose tutorials for
a broader audience.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The participants will work mainly through existing training material with the instructors to build a modular training material body. This material will include slides, examples, and text. The
work will be partially organized in working groups. By this approach, participants will get deeper knowledge on DDI and build collaboratively the modular training body.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The modular structure of the material should allow teaching of tutorials for various purposes (like data collection, archive, metadata-driven approach) or a combination of these. It should be
also suitable for multiple audiences.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The content will cover DDI Codebook, DDI Lifecycle, and ideas of DDI 4 (in development). An approach across versions will be possible for some areas.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The modular structure of the material should allow reuse for different purposes, possibly also for self-teaching material and general documentation. The material will use a technical format
which supports these ideas (like reStructuredText, used format of the DDI 4 documentation).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The training material will be provided with under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. The material can be then reused and changed in future by other instructors.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd">Target group<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">People who are interested in teaching a DDI tutorial and who are already familiar with DDI.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd">Prerequisites<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">People interested in participating in this workshop need to submit their application by July 22, 2018 by sending it to the following e-mail:
<a href="mailto:workshop-mannheim@gesis.org" target="_blank">workshop-mannheim@gesis.org</a>.<br>
The application should consist of a single PDF file including:<u></u><u></u></p>
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A professional biosketch.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">
A short motivation letter stating …<u></u><u></u>
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the current position and work,<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">
the reasons for the willingness to attend this workshop,<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">
the experiences with DDI, and<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">
the plans to teach a tutorial or organize a workshop on DDI in the next year.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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Notifications about the selection results will be sent by July 30, 2018.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd">More Information<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">This workshop is supported by the DDI Alliance in two ways:<u></u><u></u></p>
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The GESIS workshop participant's fee (350 Euro) is paid by the DDI Alliance if the participant plans to teach a tutorial or to organize a workshop on DDI in the year after the workshop. This can be an in-house course in the participant's institution or a public
event.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_5682488676831777195m_-5003015980653676343MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">
The DDI Alliance provides two travel grants in exceptional cases when no other funding options are available. Interested people should describe in the letter why the travel support is not possible by other means. Please add a rough quote for your estimated
travel expenses to your application in this case.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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Accommodation cost at Dagstuhl including full board is 70 Euro/night/person (this rate is subsidized by the Dagstuhl institute).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Please follow the
<a href="https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/476905473/Practical+Information+DDI+-+Train+the+Trainers" target="_blank">
link</a> for useful information about the venue, accommodation, and more.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Please see for details the related
<a href="https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x26080C184C484597AE6AE43CD648B277" target="_blank">
GESIS workshop web page</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<h2>Organizers/Instructors<u></u><u></u></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Jon Johnson, Wendy Thomas, Dan Smith, Joachim Wackerow<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4f81bd"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Joachim Wackerow<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Team: Archive Instruments and Metadata Standards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Fax: +49 (0)621 1246 100<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:joachim.wackerow@gesis.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">joachim.wackerow@gesis.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.gesis.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">www.gesis.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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