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Administrative Data Group
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Members: The group is currently under construction. New members are welcomed. Please contact David Schiller, Institute for Employment Research, Germany (Chair)
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Data Description in R Working Group
Charge: To develop controlled vocabularies on already identified DDI elements. Stage 2: To determine which other DDI elements require controlled vocabularies and develop those.
Timetable: Start November 2007, Stage 1 completed April 2010. Stage 2 ongoing.
Membership opportunity: New members are welcomed. Please contact Sanda Ionescu for more information.
- Stefan Ekman, Swedish National Data Service (SND)
- Anne Etheridge, U.K. Data Archive (UKDA)
- Sanda Ionescu, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Taina Jääskeläinen, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD)
- Alexander Jedinger, GESIS -- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Sebastian Kočar, Australian Data Archive (ADA)
- Hilde Orten, Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
Read and write DDI Formats in R.
More details: Data Description in R
Documentation Working Group
Charge: Re-usable Structured Documentation: As DDI releases a first version of the Codebook Functional View to the community, documentation and documentation structure becomes essential for its successful implementation. The work during this week, will concentrate on developing both high-level and field-level documentation to assist archives, libraries, and statistical agencies, migrating from an older version of DDI to DDI 4.
More details: Documentation Working Group
Experimental Data Working Group
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- Limor Peer, Yale University
- Wolfgang Zenk-Moeltgen, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Publications Working Group
Charge: The publications working group contributes content and works to support and promote the various publications produced under the auspices of the DDI Alliance.
More details: Publications Working Group
Qualitative Data Model Working Group
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Tools Catalog Group
Charge: The Tools Catalog Group works to facilitate the use of the DDI standard by describing software and other tools to work with DDI. The group has created a catalog structure for tools and is now working to develop and implement incremental improvements based on community input.
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Web Site Group
Charge: Development and maintenance of the DDI Alliance web site.
More details: DDI Alliance Web Site Group
Workflows for Dataverse Working Group
Charge: To develop use cases for improved support of DDI in the Dataverse repository platform, and, to coordinate development projects that utilize DDI generated by or with Dataverse in support of research data across the lifecycle.
More details: DDI Workflows for Dataverse