Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)

Purpose: This working group aims to promote the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in support of the FAIR data principles. By encouraging the visible use of DDI standards—such as DDI-Codebook, DDI-Lifecycle, and DDI-CDI—the group seeks to enhance the adoption and impact of DDI across the data community.

Next Meetings

📅 Wednesday, 28 January 2026

🕓 16:00 CET (Europe/Berlin, UTC+1)/ 15:00 UTC

📍 via Microsoft Teams

Next Discussion points:

API: Look into SDMX-API, perhaps develop ideas, how an API should present a list of concepts (Nicolas)
FAIR signposting: discovery of sitemap, use of sitemap (Knut, Olof)
OAI-PMH: what should be recommendations for answer to “listMetadataFormats”? (Knut)
Subgroups? (Sentiment was “no” during side meeting at EDDI)
Stick on last Wednesday of the month?

Communication & Collaboration

The group uses this Google Drive Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17H4XacWQmF9FyOsifaP6qkgtyXjSmW0Z?usp=sharing
- This folder also contains rolling minutes with updates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ktZ84b2BROxL4GhzNESNgn2h2bEvPUiZleEmq8CyY8/edit?usp=drive_link
- Google Chat for members: https://chat.google.com/room/AAQAOKWzZJU?cls=7
MS Teams Channel for members: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3Arn432soZOEygvck6ZzMaH_nqLyABajkJWs_En3Jfg181%40thread.tacv2/Allgemein?groupId=c15a4f8b-1cfe-46b7-8d09-f35e3c7adcfb&tenantId=89e77033-8876-4ceb-8259-983014a016a2
You can reach all group members at ddimpawg@diw.de. (For administrative questions write a mail to the group's chair kwenzig@diw.de.)
MPAWG meeting minutes

Deliverables

Recommendation how to publish and access DDI metadata via OAI-PMH.
Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NsUJMqsJQHaKIxxZUuQ2ZqLwIprZB_JIegOtNH1MXNM/edit?usp=sharing
Recommendation how to publish and access DDI metadata with FAIR signposting.
Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nF-eUjl3sNADrhiirQpu74ONFnC9DMr5o10_Jq575JM/edit?usp=sharing
Recommendation how to publish and access DDI metadata with a new DDI API.
Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wi-NgQLVt0VetzyRDaGY9gv-BaSOOqlz3pLH8uTM2uA/edit?usp=sharing

Members

Membership is open to any interested party. Additional subject matter experts may be invited as needed. Members are expected to actively participate in meetings and contribute to working group activities.

Name	Organization	Country	Email

Name	Organization	Country	Email
Alessandro Morichetta	IReSP	FR	ale.morichetta@gmail.com
Alireza Davoudian	SND	SE	alireza.davoudian@gu.se
Andreas Daniel	DZHW	DE	daniel@dzhw.eu
Brigitte Mathiak	GESIS	DE	Brigitte.Mathiak@gesis.org
Dan Smith	WG’s Scientific Board contact	US	dan@colectica.com
Darren Bell	UKDS	UK	dbell@essex.ac.uk
Edward Mawejje	Makerere University College of Health Sciences	UG	mawejjeedward@gmail.com
Farrah Sanjari	StatCan	CA	Farrah.Sanjari@statcan.gc.ca
Jennifer Zeiger	ICPSR	US	zeiger@umich.edu
Jon Johnson	Closer	UK	jon.johnson@ucl.ac.uk
Judy Gerber	MITRE		jgerber@mitre.org
Julie Lenoir	INED	FR	julie.lenoir@ined.fr
Joachim Wackerow	Independent Expert	DE	joachim.wackerow@posteo.de
Knut Wenzig	DIW Berlin (Chair)	DE	kwenzig@diw.de
Matthias Umkehrer	IAB	DE	Matthias.Umkehrer@iab.de
Michal Malatinec	SASD	SK	michal.malatinec@savba.sk
Mihaela Tudose	LIfBi	DE	mihaela.tudose@lifbi.de
Nicolas Laval	Making Sense	FR	nicolas.laval@making-sense.info
Olof Olsson	Swedish National Data Service (SND)	SE	olof.olsson@snd.gu.se
Pascal Heus	Codata	CA	pascal@codata.org
Shipra Suman	UCL	UK	rmhasum@ucl.ac.uk
Tobias Koberg	LIfBi	DE	tobias.koberg@lifbi.de
Toni Sissala	FSD	FI	toni.sissala@tuni.fi
Wendy Thomas	ISRDI	US	wlt@umn.edu
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen	Gesis	DE	Wolfgang.Zenk-Moeltgen@gesis.org
Xiaoyao Han	DIW Berlin	DE	xhan@diw.de

Terms of Reference:

DDI Alliance Metadata Publication and Access Working Group - living document
- stable version that served as the basis for the Steering Board decision