Technical Committee

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Role of the TC

The purpose of the Technical Committee is to model, render, maintain, and update the DDI specifications to meet community needs and align with Alliance strategic goals. The TC receives input from substantive working groups of the Scientific Board, DDI users and developers, and other interested parties. This includes the development of conceptual models, implementation of models in various technical forms, monitoring the metadata landscape and related developments, and initiate and plan possible future directions for the standard.

Meeting Minutes for current year with links to previous years

 

Annual Report 2020/21 with work plan for July 2021-December 2022

Annual Report 2019

Upcoming Agenda Items

2024-09-19 - CDI submission, TC web management, web site work timeline

2024-09-26 -

2024-10-03 - time shift due to CDI webinar

Production Framework: Information on the production framework for each DDI product.

Review Activities

Current and upcoming review activities. Click product name to link to the appropriate Comment and Review page. Open reviews are highlighted in red.

Product

Release Date

Review Dates

Comments                                 

DDI-C v.2.6

September 12, 2022 through October 31, 2022

List of issues

In preparation for publication vote

DDI-C v. 2.5.1

2012-01-17

Published

DDI-L v. 3.3

2020-04-15

Published

Open for filing issues

XKOS (RDF)

2019-06-20

Published

Open for filling issues

DDI -CDI

"Cross Domain Integration"


CR2 Submitted to TC 2024-04 for preparation of vote including Tech review of production process

Technical review of production process (May-June 2024)

SDTL

Structured Data Transformation Language

2020-12-10

Published

Open for filing issues


Current Activities and Issues

See Work Plan for Scheduled Priorities

  • Transfer of DDI Alliance website to HubSpot
  • Implementation of docs.ddialliance.org site
  • Oversee review for publication of XKOS Best Practices
  • Oversee review for publication of Glossary
  • DDI-CDI 1.0 review for publication vote
  • DDI-Lifecycle v4.0 BETA2 review
  • DDI-Codebook v2.6 including new Dublin Core Files

updated 2024-08-29 



Meeting Dates and Connections

The Technical Committee meets EVERY Thursday. The time of the meeting shifts with the change to Daylight Savings time in the UNITED STATES. Note that meeting times are set on CET and that during the period when the US and Europe are out of sync, Central European Time applies.

Standard Time (US and Europe):

9:00 US Central / 16:00 CET

Join Zoom Meeting

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Members

                                                                

Member

Role

Email

Wendy Thomas

Chair

wlt@umn.edu

Jon Johnson

Vice-chair

jon.johnson@ucl.ac.uk

Jeremy Iverson

Member

jeremy@colectica.com

Oliver Hopt

Member

oliver.hopt@gesis.org

Dan Smith

Member

dan@colectica.com 

Flavio Rizzolo

Member 

flavio.rizzolo@canada.ca 

Darren Bell

Member

dbell@essex.ac.uk

Christophe Dzikowski

Member

christophe.dzikowski@insee.fr

George Alter

Topic expert

Olof Olsson

Topic expert

Role of TC Chair and Vice-Chair

Role of Chair:

  • Convene meetings (Post agendas, minutes, additional materials)

  • Ensure that tasks are clearly articulated and prioritized by the members

  • Manage workflow

  • Prepare yearly reports to Scientific Board

  • Prepare statements from the TC to external bodies as required (Scientific Board, Director, Executive Committee)

  • Ensure that procedures for publication and review are followed

  • Ensure that the work of the TC is transparent to the community

  • Encourage new membership

  • Scientific Board ex-officio member

  • Executive Director’s Advisory Group member

Role of Vice Chair:

  • Convene meetings when chair is unavailable

  • Assist Chair in performing the tasks of the Chair

  • Executive Director’s Advisory Group member