The purpose of the Training Group is to:
- Ensure that our goals align and build on the DDI Alliance Scientific Work Plan.
- Introduce people to DDI and improve people's competence in working with DDI.
- Promote deeper understanding of DDI’s work products by addressing specific topics.
- Gear training to specific audiences as appropriate (for example, by beginning to set up training materials and events in languages other than English).
- Develop expertise within the Working Group for carrying out training.
- Maintain a training library with updated training material in languages other than English for reuse
See Mandate
Storage:
Useful documents:
Template for slides: DDITL_template-031122.pptx and Theme1.thmx
Official DDI Training Materials - These DDI training materials are approved products of the DDI Alliance. Intended for re-use.
DDI Training Community - Applied training. Anyone may submit their DDI training materials to this community.
Group email:
https://groups.google.com/g/icpsr-ddi-training
| Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
| Alina Danciu (Chair) | SciencesPo | alina.danciu@sciencespo.fr |
| Hayley Mills (Chair) | CLOSER | h.mills@ucl.ac.uk |
| Adrian Dusa | RODA | dusa.adrian@unibuc.ro |
| Daniel Gillman | US BLS | |
| Arofan Gregory | Consultant | ilg21@yahoo.com |
| Kaia Kulla | Statistics Estonia | |
| Kathryn Lavender | ICPSR | kfrania@umich.edu |
| Jared Lyle | DDI Alliance | lyle@umich.edu |
| Lucie Marie | CDSP | lucie.marie2@sciencespo.fr |
| Laura Molloy | CODATA | |
| Hilde Orten | SIKT | |
| Christophe Dzikowski | INSEE | christophe.dzikowski@insee.fr |
Flavio Rizzolo (Scientific Board contact)
| Statistics Canada | flavio.rizzolo@statcan.gc.ca |
| Geneviève Michaud | CDSP | genevieve.michaud@sciencespo.fr |
| Catharina Wasner | GIGA | catharina.wasner@giga-hamburg.de |
| Catherine Yuen | Understanding Society | catherine.yuen@essex.ac.uk |
| Jennifer Zeiger | ICPSR | zeiger@umich.edu |
Meeting Notes for current and previous years
The Training Group meets every first Tuesday of the month at 9 am (EST) / 2 pm (UTC) / 3 pm (CET) / 4 pm (CAT/EET) using Zoom.
To join the meeting online use this link: https://sciencespo.zoom.us/j/98016141400
Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Please set yourself on mute when you are not speaking to prevent background noises.
Actions which are not specific to each sub-group activities listed below
Hilde Orten will make RDA slides available to the Zenodo community group.
- Hayley Mills/Alina DANCIU to add RDA slides to Zenodo.
- Hayley Mills and Alina DANCIU to use mandate to advertise what we do and recruit new members.
- Alina DANCIU to share a spreadsheet of the number of training requests received and their outcome
- Hilde Orten to contact and set up a meeting to understand what CODATA RDA schools do/teach and what they would be interested in.
- Arofan to provide a plan for the next set of webinars for 2022/2023.
- Alina DANCIU/Hayley Mills to email group to ask for a volunteer to chair the TO sub-group.
- TO subgroup (Jennifer Zeiger) to lay out the list of known conference possibilities
- Arofan to follow-up International Data Week’s SciDataCon 2023
- Christophe to circulate a proposal ahead of the next meeting for the group to discuss.
- Arofan and Laura to organise a meeting with Alina and Hayley to discuss further the webinar situation.
- TO subgroup (Jennifer Zeiger) to discuss and propose a face to face event in December (as the EDDI PC suggests) to the group.
- TO subgroup (Jennifer Zeiger) to lay out the list of known possible conferences and prioritise by this group (Jared suggests identifying audiences first, and find conferences to match second. This may expand reach to untapped conferences)
- Getting started pages subgroup (Arofan) to draft recommendations/plan to discuss in this group and then to go the TC to sign off
- HM to email the other chairs about setting up chair meetings.