Regrets: Hayley
Attendees: Cat, Kathryn, Dan, Kaia, Alina
From last meeting:
Update Spreadsheet with status, notes/actions, full title, who with, latest file name, etc. - Cat
Data Quality deck - Dan to check with Flavio
The DDI Variable Cascade - Dan to work on
Controlled vocab deck - Cat to read and feedback to group
Questions and Instruments slide deck - Kaia to review updated version
Korean translation - Alina hasn’t heard from Korean data archive and will proceed with budget request to hopefully move things along - still outstanding
programmers deck - Alina - new programmer to review in September
Update on the work on the self-training DDI support (this is an example of their work) : it is a work in progress, the person in charge attended the French training we gave last Friday with Hilde and asked a lot of questions about exercises or games on DDI. We already have some of those; Alina plans to find them and translate them into French. - Alina to try and find it or recreate it, to update slide deck “DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle (add CDI)” to include link to spreadsheet to make sure we don’t loose it - Alina to do in August / September and will update after that
Discussion for this meeting
Updated decks - delete / archive?
if we delete v1. we will loose number of views / downloads
translated decks will need to be updated as well - Alina volunteered to update French versions, what about Korean versions which we’ve just had them translated?
need to check with wider DDI community?
3 marked as published to be updated with v1.1 on Gesis box
DDI Codebook of DDI Lifecycle
What is DDI
DDI for Librarians, Archivists and Metadata Managers
Have these v1.1 versions been reviewed? Can they replace v1.0? If so, what would happen to views / download numbers? Any ideas? Or we keep those numbers on spreadsheet manually and loose them on Zenodo?
1 updated published - Understanding metadata advanced version of What is Metadata
2 in progress to be published- The DDI variable cascade advanced version of Variables and variable cascade and Questions and survey instruments in DDI advanced version of Question and instrument structure
Once we decide our stance on this I think we should run it by the larger TG or the SB
Cat to email Jared / Zenodo to find out if it’s possible to added updated version to existing ones - WIP and will report back at next meeting
Potential Romania DDI event opportunity for March 2025
Kathryn has shared Romaina DDI event opportunity from Adrian and Jared:
There's a chance to secure around 100k euros in funding from a research agency in Romania to host an event by March 2025.
We discussed some event ideas, and one concept is to host speakers who can showcase the benefits of good data documentation practices, particularly using DDI. The target audience would be national statistical agencies (matching our DDI strategic focus for this year) and large research projects.
This is still in the early planning stages, but I wanted to involve you both in your roles within the marketing and training groups. Could you share your thoughts on this idea and whether you’d be interested in collaborating on the event?
Thinking about this in terms of our strategic goals, Adrian, beyond using the funds to pay for speakers' travel and accommodation (Engaging the Community: Build community through products and events), could we use event funds for these related strategic goals:
Develop audience-specific training materials (Expanding the DDI Community) to be used at the event?
Support tools development (Aligning DDI Development) through a hackathon at the event?
Data Quality deck
Kaia has updated this and Kathryn has reviewed it, Dan to check with Flavio to clarify what else need to be done apart from adding more notes for this and all future deck (generic). - Cat to publish on Zenodo
Questions and Instruments deck
Published but Kaia to review updated version
Controlled vocab deck
Cat to read and see if there are any questions the we as a group will decide what else is needed
Current deck statuses (summary):
How to Document Data Quality with DDI - To be published on Zenodo
The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison- Dan will try and work on this
Controlled vocabularies - Cat to read and feedback
DDI for Developers - Alina - new programmer to review in September
Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata - Kaia to review updated version
Korean translation - Alina - Done, to be revised / reviewed
Actions from this meeting:
Update Spreadsheet with status, notes/actions, full title, who with, latest file name, etc. - Cat
Data Quality deck - Cat to publish - Published on Zenodo
Variable cascade deck - Dan to work on (email from Chantal on contents from Flavio 25-6-2024)
Controlled vocab deck - Cat to read and feedback to group
Questions and Instruments slide deck - Kaia to review updated version
Potential Future Slide Decks
https://lucid.app/lucidspark/657d1e81-af17-45e2-9ae5-0d1c2664c9fc/edit?invitationId=inv_e188f202-aaa9-4573-8647-f359e3ae8fe8
Please only use this as reference and do not update. Please only update the spreadsheet so it doesn’t get out of sync!
Choosing the right DDI tool? https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/ - Alina will try and re-create it in the summer
CODATA-DDI Training Webinars - CODATA, The Committee on Data for Science and Technology
Sanda shared content to help us form a slide deck(s) on controlled vocabularies: Controlled Vocabularies Slides (Google folder)
Sanda will meet with us to discuss once we have had a chance to review the materials