Agenda
Monday, October 17, 2016
Morning
Session 1 (plenary): Introductions, goals of the workshop, and overall introduction to DDI
Introduction of participants
Introduction to DDI
DDI-Codebook
DDI-Lifecycle
DDI Moving Forward Project
What do we work with and the challenges that we’ve encountered, especially regarding interoperability with other specifications
Session 2 (plenary): Presentations from external experts on specific specifications or usage of specifications.
External presentations:
Klas Blomqvist – GSIM
Flavio Rizzolo – LIM
Arofan Gregory – SDMX
Eric Prud’hommeaux – FHIR
Barrie Nelson - CDISC
Afternoon
Session 3 (plenary): Presentations from external experts on specific specifications or usage of specifications.
External presentations:
Nick Car – PROV
Gregg Kellogg – CSVW
Gary Berg-Cross – RDA & Ontologies
Daniella Meeker – standards in biomedical research
Darren Bell – UKDA’s use of DDI in Big Data
Session 4 (plenary): Discussion of interoperability
Interoperability
Presentation by Wendy Thomas
Begin discussion towards an agreed definition of interoperability
Evening:
Possible evening session - Topic to be determined
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Morning
Session 1 (plenary): Discussion of interoperability
Ensure we have an agreed upon definition of Interoperability
Begin discussion of business scenarios
Short presentations of requested business scenarios (Jay, Eric, Jon, Barry)
Collection of business scenarios
Session 2 (working groups):
Session 2A: Business scenario: Situations where we would use different standards together
Outcome: Document outlining these business scenarios
Description of the Business Scenario in a consistent way
Agree on a set of functionalities across the specifications
List of requirements
Session 2B: Common Aspects of all specifications present during Data Description
Outcome: 2 tables:
High level table demonstrating what specs are used for specific aspects of … see Arofan’s table
Detailed table mapping the important properties and relationships within classes, terminology differences, identify significant differences
Afternoon
Session 3 (working groups):
Session 3A: Provenance of data, metadata
Common understanding of what provenance is
What are the requirements of provenance
Overview of real life provenance applications
Outcome: A common definition / understanding of provenance for the purpose of this workshop
Discussion of provenance
Real life examples
Shared and agreed definition of provenance
Session 3B: Design patterns
Review of practical use in DDI 4
Generic principles, what is the right balance between clean structure on the model level and understandable use on the binding level
Pros/cons on model level, binding level
Outcome: document outlining:
Evaluation of current design patterns in DDI4
What can we learn from the other specifications
Reason for pattern use and style of pattern
Session 4 (working groups):
Session 3A continued: Provenance of data, metadata
Session 3B continued: Design patterns
Evening:
Possible evening session - Topic to be determined
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Morning
Session 1 (working groups):
Session 1A: Bindings of DDI, CDISC, HL7/FHIR, SDMX, GSIM, CSV on the Web
Approaches of modeling and/or generation
Usage of other vocabularies
The process you use to create your specifications
Outcome: document outlining why other specs have chosen their particular bindings, the process used to create them, their rationale, and approaches to new releases and versioning; how to deal with issues of identification and round-tripping of data and metadata