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DDI 4 Update

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DDI Annual Meeting

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Save the Date! NADDI 2018, April 5th & 6th

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Early Registration for NADDI 2018 ends February 14th

Early Registration is still available for the 2018 North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) will be being held at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. on April 5-6, 2018. The Call for Papers will be published shortly and further details will be added to the Conference web site over the coming monthsWorkshops are being held on April 4th.

http://naddiconf.org/2018/

The theme for NADDI 2018, ‘Benefits of Describing National Statistics with Common Standards’, 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.

DDI Alliance Executive Board Election Results

The DDI Alliance recently held elections to fill four seats on the Executive Board, which is responsible for managing the operations of the Alliance, including setting the overall policy and budget, and providing strategic guidance and review of the Alliance’s activities. Elected members of the Executive Board serve for a term of four years, with terms starting on July 1st.

The member representatives unanimously elected include:

  • Dr. Catherine Fitch is Associate Director of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) and founding Co-Director of the Minnesota Research Data Center (MnRDC), a United States Census Bureau Research Data Center (RDC).  Throughout her career, she has been closely involved in the creation of several MPC databases, including IPUMS (USA and International) and Terra Populus.
  • Dr. Steven McEachern is Director of the Australian Data Archive.  He has high-level expertise in survey methodology and data archiving, and has been actively involved in development and application of survey research methodology and technologies over fifteen years in the Australian university sector.  Steve currently serves as Chair of the DDI Executive Board and was first elected to the Board in 2013.
  • Dana Müller is Head of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research.  Dana worked as a researcher at the Technical University in Chemnitz before joining the staff of the Data Research Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at IAB.  Dana was first elected to the DDI Executive Board in January 2017.
  • Dr. Barry Radler is a Distinguished Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute on Aging and a researcher on the Midlife in the United State (MIDUS) study.  With 20 years of experience in the behavioral sciences, he has worked with universities, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.  Barry is Chair of the DDI Marketing and Partnerships Group.

Additionally, a special thank you goes to outgoing Board members, Leanne Trimble (University of Toronto) and Louise Corti (UK Data Archive).

DDI at AAPOR

DDI exhibited at AAPOR, as well as presented a session, titled...

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The DDI Alliance welcomes the TBA21 Group (represented by TBA21 Germany) an Associate Member of the Alliance.  David Schiller is the representative.

The DDI Alliance also welcomes the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur (Ingo Barkow, representative) as a Full Member! 

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RWX: Scholarly Journals Covering DDI

The DDI Community has produced a rich store of DDI and metadata-related publications. Read-Write-Execute (RWX) will highlight some of these existing publications as well as new work as it is produced. The first column featured some of the foundations of DDI in scientific literature. The second revisited some of the top impact publications related to DDI from the last 20 years. And this one tries to identify those (mostly) scholarly journals, which seem to be interested in covering DDI topics.

If one looks for the search term “data documentation initiative” on Google Scholar, one gets 1260 results. Even if the bibliographic quality of the output is sometimes poor, as the entries are far away from being complete and well standardized, some journals stand out, which contain DDI topics more than incidentally. Here is a list sorted by the number of relevant articles:

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Moving Forward: Lawrence Sprint Report

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