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Executive Director's Note
Insert insightful comments here. :)We look forward to seeing many of our members in Kansas for our annual Meeting of Members and meeting of the Scientific Board. At our meeting this year, we will discuss our strategic plan, including a vision for long-term DDI infrastructure. We hope for an engaging discussion.
Jared Lyle
Director, DDI Alliance
DDI Alliance to Meet in Lawrence, KS, on May 22nd
The DDI Alliance will hold its annual meeting on Monday, May 22, 2017, in the Big 12 Room of the University of Kansas Memorial Union in Lawrence, Kansas (the day before the start of the IASSIST conference). The morning will be devoted to the Meeting of Members and the afternoon to the meeting of the Scientific Board with lunch provided in between. As in previous years, in most cases it will be the same person attending both meetings, but do feel free to send different people.
The agenda for the meeting is available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JBGgZG309kRD3zlxg5vvCtn_WcZkmQLw9apfy0iL4r0/edit#heading=h.dbe82sdcd9p5
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NADDI Conference Held in Ithaca, New York
NADDI2017, the 5th Annual North American DDI User Conference, took place December 5-7, 2016, in Ithaca, New York. The conference was hosted by the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
The conference program included 15 presentations covering a range of DDI-centric topics such as using METS and DDI to improve preservation workflows for research data, as well as general metadata initiatives, such as the exciting new public history metadata project, Freedom on the Move. Freedom on the Move is a database of runaway slave newspaper ads populated by crowdsourcing, used to both transcribe the ad and fill specific metadata fields. The conference program also included 7 posters, and 2 workshops. The keynote address was given by Dr. Peter Enns, Executive Director of the Roper Center, entitled "Why We Need Survey Data and Data Archives to Understand Mass Incarceration". Stay tuned for the location of NADDI2018!
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Credt: Tim Parsons Photography
New Members!
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