20240109 Scientific Board Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Flavio, Hilde, Wendy, Wolfgang, Dan, Jared

Apologies:

Darren, Ingo, Simon

1. Admin – updated of latest happenings:

• Feedback from EDDI participants Envisioning the Future of DDI in the Metadata Landscape in the Envisioning the Future of DDI in the Metadata Landscape session

  • e.g. make documentation more visible

  • field-level documentation for DDI-C and DDI-L

• Report from Training WG notes from EDDI side meeting (attached)

  • in general, work of training group is much appreciated

  • Chairs want to make a list of actions (see attachment) for 2024

  • Flavio is contact and will double-check if some support is needed

  • Need to decide on actions that are part of the upcoming marketing group

  • Question is if we need some training on XKOS or CDI, in addition to the “traditional” DDI products

  • WG is working on project charge document: DDI TG Project Charge 2024  

• DDI Community Newsletter DDI Community Newsletter, December 2023

  • Really good to have this! Thanks to Jared!

  • Should be linked at Newsletters and Reports | Data Documentation Initiative  

• DDI-L 4.0 beta release DDI Lifecycle - 4.0 beta announcement | Data Documentation Initiative

  • Serializing the content is now possible in automated fashion

  • Different language expressions are included

  • Content is derived from DDI 3.3

  • Webinar is planned for end of February

  • Model is on github; other products are being moved there, too (bitbucket will stay for the published final versions)

  • Other serializations than XML were partly requested from the community (e.g. RDF, JSON); we need to see which are being used in the future. Support for interoperability with tools is needed for certain type of applications.

  • UML XMI is one of the outputs of the DDI model serializations (now supporting the canonical XMI that CDI has also, but not supporting EA specific diagrams anymore). Overlap of DDI-L and CDI (and other products) is still large - explaining is needed for users, so they can decide which product to use. Options for referencing between different products, reducing need for migration, need to be explained as well.

2. Assign tasks for the February meeting

• Topic for next time - invites

  • Topics should have a relation to the SB tasks, e.g. scientific work plan and related work groups or co-ordination between them

  • contact persons (w3c, unece,etc) could report

  • Arofan/Flavio can report for Cosmos next time (Flavio will organize)

  • Training group could report (Hilde will organize)

• Schedule EB/SB coordination call meeting (EB survey, Marketing group status etc.)

  • Jared will do

• URN resolution

  • Wolfgang todo: look into , make proposal

• WG follow-up (incl RDF equivalence group contact)

• Scientific Work Plan 2024 - 26

  • Hilde and Darren will re-organize the current plan proposal for the next meeting, with tasks for SB members

• ISO Certification WG

  • Darren will be starting this, Simon is interested

Moved to Feb meeting:

• CDIF contact?

• Nelson memo; IUSSP CV; CESSDA strategy document