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Save the Date: DDI Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of Member Representatives will be held on Saturday, 1 June 2019, in Sydney, Australia (directly after the IASSIST Annual Conference, 27-31 May 2019, also to be held in Sydney).
The Annual Meeting of Member Representatives provides a forum for member discussion and feedback. Please save the date. We look forward to seeing many member representatives at the meeting.
DDI 4 Review Period
This is a reminder that we are coming up to the end of the projected 3 month period for the DDI 4 Prototype Review Period. Please submit your issues and comments before Monday, February 4, 2019.
EDDI Conference
The 10th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI18) was held December 4-5, 2018. EDDI18 was organized jointly by SOEP - The German Socio-Economic Panel, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor, and hosted by SOEP (The Socio-Economic Panel) at DIW (German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin, Germany. The program is available on the conference website.
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The conference was opened by the keynote speech on "Making Fair Data a Reality... and the Challenges of Interoperability and Reusability" by Simon Hodson (Executive Director of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), and included 26 presentations, 2 tutorials, posters, discussion sessions, and a side meeting. Nearly all presentations and posters are available at https://zenodo.org/communities/edd18/.
A panel discussion, introduced by Jon Johnson (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2530104) covered the question of licenses for metadata publishing and how to credit metadata producers appropriately.
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the Finnish Social Science Data Archive in Tampere, Finland December 3-4, 2019.
Picture: Christina Kurka (DIW Berlin)
Early Registration for NADDI 2019 ends February 14th
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UNECE Supporting Standards Group
The DDI Alliance has participated in recent UNECE groups on supporting metadata standards.
Mari Kleemola participated in the Workshop on the Modernisation of Official Statistics, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27-28 November 2018. The workshop was attended by representatives from 29 countries and organisations. All documents and presentations are available from the Workshop wiki (https://statswiki.unece.org/x/HAFNDQ).
Jay Greenfield has been participating in the Supporting Standards Group
Moving Forward: Berlin Report
Insert sprint final report. EDDI 2018 Sprint Confluence page with the final report.