20231114 Scientific Board Meeting Minutes

Owned by Hilde Orten
Aug 19, 2024
3 min read

Attendees:

Dan (on phone), Darren, Hilde, Jared, Flavio, Wendy, Wolfgang, 

Apologies:

Ingo, Simon

1. Admin 

The SB will contribute to the DDI Alliance Newsletter

2. Scientific Work Plan, next steps (Darren and Hilde)

Work is ongoing, a draft Strategic Plan would be helpful.

3. Annual meeting of the Scientific Board (Wolfgang and Hilde)

The EB will organize its annual meeting virtually, and possibly a community gathering in Halifax in the margins of IASSIST. We need to decide about our own annual meeting and whether to organize a physical meeting. Wolfgang and Jared are in touch with the Halifax organisers and we need to decide whether we would like to organize something around IASSIST. A room for 50 and WiFi but no videoconference facilities are available in Halifax. 

  • Annual meeting - virtual or not?

Desicion: Only virtually and coordinate with the EB (Jared to coordinate).

  • Scientific Community meeting in the margins of IASSIST?

Desicion: It was decides not to organise a community meeting in Halifax, but we would like to be present and do something else. Wolfgang will take the lead to organise. Session submission deadline November 22.

Jared willl send a unified EB and SB response to IASSIST organisers. The SB will organise some other activity.

  • An alternative meeting venue could be the CESSDA conference June 6th in Split - 2-3 days.

Desicion: Darren to check this  

4. Planning of content for our presentation at the event ‘Envisioning the Future of DDI in the Metadata Landscape’ at EDDI, see https://events.geant.org/event/1457/contributions/1610/ .

Jared, Jon and have started to plan the event.

Ideas for SB slides

  • DDI products and their role in the standards landscape

  • Our Working Groups and what they are doing

  • SB focus looking forward

Ideas for SB questions to audience

  • Important focus points for the scientific and technical work of the DDI Alliance in the next years?

  • What would you like to learn more about?

  • Are you interested to join a working group? – Which one(s)?

Communication

It has been suggested we use Menti and that’s ok but cannot be the only form of communication. Also benefit from a face to face discussion with people that are physically in the room.

Wolfgang: For new users - show the website and mention examples?

Jared: We would like feedback on directions. Highlighting website - Jared can show 1-2 slides.

5. UNECE Contact

Proposal by Flavio and Arofan:

Needed Skills:

  • Familiarity with DDI work products, especially DDI Lifecycle, XKOS, DDI-CDI

  • Familiarity with GSIM, SDMX, VTL, GSBPM, CSDA, CSPA

  • Knowledge of statistical production and dissemination in official statistics settings

  • Understanding of the broader dynamics related to DDI within official statistics for reuse within research (demographics, SDGs, secure data centers, etc.)

 

Functions:

  • Communicate official statistics requirements to the DDI community/SB

  • Raise awareness of the work within the DDI Alliance as it might be useful for the OS community moving forward

  • Assist in the alignment of DDI with other relevant standards (DDI - SDMX mappings, etc.)

  • Identify opportunities for collaboration between the DDI community and official statistics

  • Coordinate capacity building around DDI with the Alliance and official statistical organizations

  • Attendance at and presentations regarding DDI at official stats conferences and meetings

Comment: Succession: Train/Bring someone(s) into the position

Decision: Proposal agreed - Arofan has the role of the UNECE contact.

Flavio has a formal role. Collaboration between Flavio and Arofan - multilateral communication. A 3 hours meeting before COSMOS will take place. DDI-CDI will have an own meeting before COSMOS. Arofan to take part in all meetings? SDMX, SDTL, VTL and DDI to be discussed.

Wendy: We need to work out processes for the collaboration.