Save the Date: DDI Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of Member Representatives will be held on Saturday, 1 June 2019, in Sydney, Australia (directly after the IASSIST Annual Conference, 27-31 May 2019, also to be held in Sydney).
The Annual Meeting of Member Representatives provides a forum for member discussion and feedback. Please save the date. We look forward to seeing many member representatives at the meeting.
DDI 4 Review Period
This is a reminder that we are coming up to the end of the projected 3 month period for the DDI 4 Prototype Review Period. Please submit your issues and comments before Monday, February 4, 2019.
EDDI Conference
The 10th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI18) was held December 4-5, 2018. EDDI18 was organized jointly by SOEP - The German Socio-Economic Panel, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor, and hosted by SOEP (The Socio-Economic Panel) at DIW (German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin, Germany. The program is available on the conference website.
There were nearly 100 participants from over 50 organisations and 20 countries. The conference was opened by the keynote speech on "Making Fair Data a Reality... and the Challenges of Interoperability and Reusability" by Simon Hodson (Executive Director of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), and included 26 presentations, 2 tutorials, posters, discussion sessions, and a side meeting.
EDDI2019 will be hosted by Finland in Finland December ??, 2019.
Early Registration for NADDI 2019 ends February 14th
Early Registration is still available for the 2019 North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) being held at Statistics Canada on April 25-26, 2019. Workshops are being held on April 24th.
The theme for NADDI 2019, ‘Benefits of Describing Statistical Production and Variables’, emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.
DDI Scientific Board Election Results
The DDI Alliance recently held elections to fill the Vice-Chair position.
UNECE Supporting Standards Group
The DDI Alliance has participated in recent UNECE groups on supporting metadata standards.
Mari Kleemola participated in the Workshop on the Modernisation of Official Statistics, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27-28 November 2018. The workshop was attended by representatives from 29 countries and organisations. All documents and presentations are available from the Workshop wiki (https://statswiki.unece.org/x/HAFNDQ).
Jay Greenfield has been participating in the Supporting Standards Group
Moving Forward: Berlin Report
Insert sprint final report. EDDI 2018 Sprint Confluence page with the final report.