Sep 30, 2025 Slide Group Meeting
Regrets: Kaia
Attendees: Kathryn, Cat, Dan, Alina
1. Welcome and Apologies
Confirm attendance
Note any new regrets
Brief recap of Jul 29 meeting
From last meeting:
Controlled vocab deck - Ready to be uploaded to Zenodo
Questions and Instruments slide deck - Review in progress - to review at the next meeting when Kaia’s available
Categorize each Published Decks on the spreadsheet (one column for each person) and add comments to column G. Possibly extend / modify “Categories” table - Cleaned version sent out to the group in Aug by Kathryn - to send to Training Group for review
No progress from previous meetings (left here for records)
CDI Training slide decks - need to seek out expertise from others in the alliance (maybe Hilde, Arofan?) include Ember - Alina to write to them and ask and cc. Dan
What is CDI
Variable Cascade (already in the pipeline)
Data Structures in CDI
Datum-Centered Approach - Dan is happy to tak on this sub-topic
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.
Discussion at this meeting
Programmers deck - Alina
Julie Lenoir will provide training and use it as a starting point.
Kathryn can consult the training group.
Update on the self-training DDI support (this is an example of their work) - Alina: The project is ready. After receiving feedback, a new exercise was developed for review. It will be available in English and French, with a realistic deadline set for early 2026. Alina will share it at EDDI, and Oliver Hopt may translate it into German.
Chairing of this group and need more members. Potentially Kathryn to co-chair with Cat in 2026 until we find someone else who is willing to chair.
For next time when Kaia is available: Cat to make sure Kaia can make the next meeting, we can reschedule to match her availability.
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 - Published on Zenodo
DDI for Developers - Now with Julie (Alina)
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, updated after the meeting
Controlled vocab deck - Cat published on Zenodo
Published Decks spreadsheet
Cat submitted to Training group for review
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