Jul 29, 2025 Slide Group Meeting
Regrets: Hayley (Maternity leave); Kaia
Attendees: Kathryn, Cat, Dan, Alina
1. Welcome and Apologies
Confirm attendance
Note any new regrets
Brief recap of June 24 meeting
From last meeting:
Controlled vocab deck - Sent to TG for review 2025-06-17
Questions and Instruments slide deck - Review in progress
Categorize each Published Decks on the spreadsheet (one column for each person) and add comments to column G. Possibly extend / modify “Categories” table - Email sent out for everyone to update by Kathryn before this meeting
No progress from previous meetings (left here for records)
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
Discuss and finalise Published Decks - finalise?
From last meeting:
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
For next time when Kaia is available:
Questions and Survey Instruments in DDI: Maximizing the Value of Your Metadata - finalise? merge or separate?
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 -almost 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 -
Cat and Kathryn will work on summarizing this sheet into a document to then share with the Training Opps group for feedback. Dan will make his choices for his column, too.
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
Update Zenodo descriptions to clarify what’s different between decks like “What is Metadata?” and “Understanding Metadata”
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