Jan 20, 2025 Slide Group Meeting

Regrets: Hayley (Maternity leave)

Attendees: Cat, Kathryn, Dan, Kaia, Alina

From last meeting:

1. Variable cascade deck - Dan to work on (email from Chantal on contents from Flavio 25-6-2024)

2. Controlled vocab deck - Cat, Kathryn and Kaia reviewed Dec 24 version. Dan and Alina to check too?

3. Questions and Instruments slide deck - Kaia & Cat reviewed Dec 24 version

4. Categorize each Published Decks on the spreadsheet (one column for each person) and add comments to column G. Possibly extend / modify “Categories” table - Done by - Cat, To do - Kathryn, Dan, Kaia, Alina

5. CDI Training slide decks - Any volunteers? Or suggestions?

   1. What is CDI

   2. Variable Cascade (already in the pipeline)

   3. Data Structures in CDI

   4. Datum-Centered Approach

   5. Process and Provenance in CDI

      • Our problem is to find authors for these. Dan is a possible person to write them, but he can't do them all. Hilde might have the time for some. We need firm commitments to determine who else is needed.

• programmers deck - Alina - new programmer to review in September, updates?

• Update on the work on the self-training DDI support (this is an example of their work) : it is a work in progress, the person in charge attended the French training we gave last Friday with Hilde and asked a lot of questions about exercises or games on DDI. We already have some of those; Alina plans to find them and translate them into French. - Alina to try and find it or recreate it, to update slide deck “DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle (add CDI)” to include link to spreadsheet to make sure we don’t loose it - Alina to do in August / September and will update after that

Discussion for this meeting

1. Controlled vocabularies - finalise?

2. Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata -finish off and send for approval?

Current deck statuses (summary):

1. The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison- Dan will try and work on this

2. Controlled vocabularies -

3. DDI for Developers - Alina - new programmer to review in September

4. Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata -

5. DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle (add CDI) - Alina is working on it

Actions from this meeting:

1. Update Spreadsheet with status, notes/actions, full title, who with, latest file name, etc. - Cat ongiong

2. Categorize each Published Decks on the spreadsheet (one column for each person) and add comments to column G. Possibly extend / modify “Categories” table? - ALL

3. Variable cascade deck - Dan to work on (email from Chantal on contents from Flavio 25-6-2024)

Potential Future Slide Decks

https://lucid.app/lucidspark/657d1e81-af17-45e2-9ae5-0d1c2664c9fc/edit?invitationId=inv_e188f202-aaa9-4573-8647-f359e3ae8fe8

Please only use this as reference and do not update. Please only update the spreadsheet so it doesn’t get out of sync!

Choosing the right DDI tool? CODATA-DDI Training Webinars - CODATA, Committee on Data of the ISC - Alina will try and re-create it in the summer

CODATA-DDI Training Webinars - CODATA, The Committee on Data for Science and Technology

• Sanda shared content to help us form a slide deck(s) on controlled vocabularies: Controlled Vocabularies Slides (Google folder)

  • Sanda will meet with us to discuss once we have had a chance to review the materials

Next meeting, Feb 25, 2025