DDI Annual Meeting
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DDI at AAPOR
DDI exhibited at AAPOR, as well as presented a session, titled...
DDI at IASSIST
DDI exhibited at IASSIST
Welcome New Member: TBA21 Group
The DDI Alliance welcomes the TBA21 Group (represented by TBA21 Germany) an Associate Member of the Alliance. David Schiller is the representative.
RWX: Scholarly Journals Covering DDI
The DDI Community has produced a rich store of DDI and metadata-related publications. Read-Write-Execute (RWX) will highlight some of these existing publications as well as new work as it is produced. The first column featured some of the foundations of DDI in scientific literature. The second revisited some of the top impact publications related to DDI from the last 20 years. And this one tries to identify those (mostly) scholarly journals, which seem to be interested in covering DDI topics.
If one looks for the search term “data documentation initiative” on Google Scholar, one gets 1260 results. Even if the bibliographic quality of the output is sometimes poor, as the entries are far away from being complete and well standardized, some journals stand out, which contain DDI topics more than incidentally. Here is a list sorted by the number of relevant articles:
IASSIST Quarterly: http://www.iassistdata.org/iq
D-Lib Magazine, The Magazine for Digital Library Research: https://doi.org/10.1045/dlib.magazine
Social Science Computer Review: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ssc
Historical Methods, A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhim20/current
Archival Science, International Journal on Recorded Information: https://link.springer.com/journal/10502
Journal of Library Metadata: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjlm20/current
Data Science Journal: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp, http://datascience.codata.org/ (newer, but without DDI)
Ariadne, Web Magazine for Information Professionals: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
International Journal of Digital Curation: http://www.ijdc.net/
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication: https://jlsc-pub.org/
If there is an article in the pipeline, it can make sense to take these journals into account. Suggestions for journals, papers and topics for RWX are appreciated and can be sent to: Knut Wenzig, kwenzig@diw.de.
Moving Forward: Lawrence Sprint Report
The latest DDI development sprint was held in Lawrence, KS, following the IASSIST Conference. Eight participants focused on two primary tracks: evaluating the codebook view and reviewing and revising patterns. Additional work was done on rules for realization of patterns, a technical and environmental assessment for publishing the DDI, identifying a 'ready' state, recommendations for documentation, and other technical updates. The full report is available on the sprint's wiki page, along with all supporting documentation.
