EDDI24
- Romain Tailhurat
Ref: 16th European DDI Users Conference, Chur
There were two sessions at EDDI 24:
a dedicated workshop Monday morning
a Bird of a Feather session Wednesday afternoon
Out of those two sessions, several points were made on how to foster the use of DDI for questionnaires. Here is a summary of those points:
we need guidance / tooling to help choose between DDI products for questionnaires
such material exists:
maybe actions need to be taken to communicate about those documents to end users?
or extend them?
we may though need guidance on how to best use Codebook in order to be interoperable with Lifecycle? And the other way around? Does it make sense?
tools can help here too
specifically, tools that allow people to use DDI without knowing they’re using it!
CLOSER’s DDI questionnaire editor - Archivist
or Insee’s Pogues
those tools can help designers using other tools than Word
more focused / on point documents would be useful
we have for example demands for how to best use logical statements in questionnaires
more generally, discussions during the conference have legitimated the need for documentations between introductory material and specifications/models…
…and the need to provide examples
see CLOSER guide: https://ucldata.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CLOS/pages/37323067/Document+a+Questionnaire
and Insee too: DDI questionnaire modeling
there is also a need for guidance over the use of concepts and their links to questionnaire elements
are there training material or guidelines for that?
it would be interesting to compare DDI for questionnaires across organisations
once again, having profiles could help
provide some sort of minimum metadata requirements when documenting questionnaires
we should have a way to publish questionnaires in order to largely share between users / implementers
link to expressed needs, see above