Jun 24, 2025 Slide Group Meeting
Regrets: Hayley (Maternity leave); Alina, Kaia
Attendees: Kathryn, Cat, Dan, Jennifer (invited)
From last meeting:
Controlled vocab deck - Sent to TG for review 2025-06-17
Questions and Instruments slide deck - with Kaia to review after Jon Johnson commented on it (circulated by email May 21 2025)
Categorize each Published Decks on the spreadsheet (one column for each person) and add comments to column G. Possibly extend / modify “Categories” table - Updates: group has added categories; Question - should we only allow one tag/category? Sometimes more than one may be applicable. How would we display this in other resources (website, YouTube, etc.). (no updates)
we agreed we need to add definitions to the categories
To which role is each deck most applicable (stats agencies, data manager, etc)?
CDI Training slide decks - Any volunteers? Or suggestions? --right now we are focusing on organizing the existing content and putting new deck creation on hold until that is done. Dan may have expressed interest in this in past meetings - need to double check with him. Our group members are not so familiar with CDI. (no updates)
What is CDI
Variable Cascade (already in the pipeline)
Data Structures in CDI
Datum-Centered Approach
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 - asked Julie Lenoir (Demographic Institute). She wants to help but will leave her position, so she might not have time for a while. Still looking for someone. We could ask the larger TG? (no updates)
Alina is considering sending the deck to the chairs of the DDI developers group - or maybe just some questions on what they would like to see in a deck
Alina expects that they will want more code in the deck
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 (no updates)
Discussion for this meeting
Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata - Jon Johnson sent some feedback: Kaia didn’t attend this meeting, so carry forward to next meeting
“I noticed in the minutes of the last Slide Deck Review group this:
Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata - ready to be sent to approval? Dan updated this (DDI Lifecycle: Questions and Instruments) to replace published one
Do you have a link to it, as the Questionnaires WG is working on a Best Practices document, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TOMHRwazeVP1S-C7Uam8wHrV_ETWfwlAz7PWHWaxviw/edit?usp=sharing so just want to make sure that the two things are complementary.”
How is this new deck different from the existing questions decks published? --Kaia will compare and let us know.
Discuss and finalise Published Decks
What is the difference between “Basic Vocabulary” and “DDI - Define”?
The categories need to be defined.
Notes from talking with Jennifer - in the side meeting, these initial category recommendations stemmed from how to best sort the content for training - not general organization.
keep in mind the training website!
add and populate audience column to help with deciding content
keep in mind plan to use multiple categories, as needed
categorize by audience
categorize by DDI product (if applicable)
categorize by other usefulness/subject
Plan to add columns for each of us to add TG audiences - Cat will send out email; then let majority rule
Current deck statuses (summary):
The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison- Dan circulated new version, need to include some diagrams used in another slide deck? (Dan to resume working on it)
Controlled vocabularies - Submitted to DDI TG for review
DDI for Developers - Alina - content not ideal for developers, try and find someone else for input
Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata - Kaia to check with published decks, to be submitted to DDI TG for review together with Controlled vocabularies deck when it is ready
DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle (add CDI) - Alina is working on it with Romain, will be in French first then translated to English
Actions from this meeting:
Update Spreadsheet with status, notes/actions, full title, who with, latest file name, etc. - Cat ongoing
Re-review Published Decks spreadsheet - ALL - to prepare for the next meeting - consider refining categories and including what roles the content applies to (under Audience - DDI column)
Review Questions and Survey instruments deck, is it to replace one of the previously published deck as mentioned above - Kaia
Variable cascade deck - Dan working on this and created a new version in Feb 2025, has been put on hold, now revisiting
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