DDI & Workflows for Dataverse WG initial call Introduction from the group members: - Initial Meeting - March 13th 2017 Present: Johan Fihn, Olof Olsson (SND), Esra Akdeniz (GESIS), Marion Wittenberg (DANS). Larry Hoyle (University of Kansas), Sebastian Karcher (Qualitative Data Repository, SYR), Danny Brooke, Julian Gautier, Gustavo Durand (IQSS, Harvard University), Kevin Worthington, Amber Leahey (Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries) Overview of group: The group is gathering to identify opportunities and use cases for enhancing support for DDI in the Dataverse system. Including discussion of organizational use cases, workflows for metadata from both researcher-generated, and library / curation manager/ archives mediated perspectives. Discussion about priorities for DDI enhancements in Dataverse that will lead to greater adoption and support, researcher usefulness, etc. for DDI and Dataverse. Meeting Notes:
Metadata reusability Could dataverse support reusable metadata for researchers to search and reuse in the design of data (e.g. for reuse in questionnaires, variable coding, value coding, etc.?) Some discussion from group using DDI Lifecycle metadata to improve distinction between concepts and variables, enable discovery of concepts across Dataverses (e.g. Gender (or Sex) concepts and variables to represent those concepts could become reusable or discoverable) Reusability factor of concepts, questions, variables, value lists, etc. Could enable attribution of reusable metadata (e.g. standardized codelists (such as NAICS classifications), attribution for concepts and implementation of abstract concepts)
Harmonize by-design
Variable-level DDI Improved description of variables in general: (e.g. frequencies, summary statistics, missing values, questions, concepts, universe notes, units of measurement, routing / skip logic (questionnaires), mappings between questions, concepts AND variables, provenance at the variable-level)
DDI Lifecycle has support for distinction between questions and variables, and questions, variables, and concepts. System could benefit from more access rights (metadata) being captured at the variable-level; could be incorporated into DataTags workflow? To help with understanding restricted data access; master copies, access copies, etc. Attribution at the variable level (e.g. stop the naming of variables “ _____ scale of …”) DDI XML for support of TAB file downloads; otherwise the TAB file isn’t enough, maybe DDI could be written to a setup file structure for reuse?
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