Program of the 3rd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting

DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle

December 5-6, Swedish National Data Service, Gothenburg, Sweden

Venue: Campus Pedagogen (main event in house A, Sociala Huset), University of Gothenburg, Västra Hamngatan 25

Final version as of 27. December 2011

Wednesday November 30, 2011

9:00

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17:00

Special Meetings

M1: Semantic Statistics

 

Location: House B, B1 113

 

Chair: Joachim Wackerow

 

Working Group on Semantic Statistics: RDF Vocabularies for DDI

Thursday December 1, 2011

9:00

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17:00

Special Meetings

M1: Semantic Statistics (cont.)

 

Location: House B, B1 113

 

Chair: Joachim Wackerow

 

Working Group on Semantic Statistics: RDF Vocabularies for DDI (cont.)

Friday December 2, 2011

9:00

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16:00

Special Meetings

M1: Semantic Statistics (cont.)

 

Location: House B, B1 113

 

Chair: Joachim Wackerow

 

Working Group on Semantic Statistics: RDF Vocabularies for DDI (cont.)

Sunday December 4, 2011

18:00

 

 

Informal Get-together

 

Location: Bishop's Arms in Gothenburg Park, Kungsportsavenyn 36

Monday December 5, 2011

8:15

 

 

Starting Registration

9:00

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12:30

Concurrent Workshops

 

Concurrent W1: Introduction with Business Perspective

Concurrent W2: Introduction with Technical Perspective

 

Location: House A, AK2 138

Location: House A, AK2 139

 

Chair: Johan Fihn

Chair: Olof Olsson

 

(Meta-)Data Management using DDI (slides)

Learn How to Create DDI Metadata: a Technical Introduction (slides, additional material)

 

Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)

Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)

12:30

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14:00

Lunch (at own expense)

14:00

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15:30

Conference Plenary 1: Welcome and Keynote

 

Location: House A, AK2 136

 

Chair: Hans Jørgen Marker

Welcome

 

Program Committee: Nikos Askitas, Michelle Coldrey, Hans Jørgen Marker, Olof Olsson, Joachim Wackerow (chair)

 

Communicating in time and space - How to overcome incompatible frames of reference of producers and users of archival data (slides, paper)

 

 

 

Bo Sundgren (Stockholm University)

15:30

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16:00

Break in Foyer

16:00

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17:30

Conference Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent A1: Integrating DDI into the Workflow

Concurrent A2: Software Project Udpates

 

Location: House A, AK2 138

Location: House A, AK2 139

 

Chair: Mari Kleemola

Chair: Johanna Vompras

 

Understanding Society, Processing Data, Challenging DDI (slides)

Future Roadmap for DDI-Lifecycle in DDA (slides)

 

Randy Banks (ISER - Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Jannik Jensen (DDA - Danish Data Archive)

 

Documenting and Harmonizing MIDUS with DDI 3 and Colectica (slides)

Dissemination of Survey (Meta-)Data Using Questasy (slides)

 

Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)

Maarten Streefkerk, Suzan Elshout, Alerk Amin, Edwin de Vet (all CentERdata)

 

Challenges to Implement DDI for the Whole Lifecycle in a Social Science Research Institution (slides)

How Can the DDI Community Take Advantage of the Native XML Database eXist-db (slides)

 

 

 

Karsten Stephan, Daniel Buck (HIS-HF - Higher Education Information System / Institute for Research on Higher Education)

Olof Olsson (SND - Swedish National Data Service/Swedish Language Bank), Leif-Jöran Olsson (Swedish Language Bank), Johan Fihn (SND - Swedish National Data Service)

18:30

 

 

Dinner at Gothia Towers, Mässans Gata 24

Tuesday December 6, 2011

9:00

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10:30

Conference Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent B1: Improving the Secondary Use of Data

Concurrent B2: Crossing Boundaries

 

Location: House A, AK2 138

Location: House A, AK2 139

 

Chair: Iris Alfredsson

Chair: Ørnulf Risnes

 

Documenting Register Data for Research Purposes (slides)

The Registration Agency da|ra, DDI and Linked Open Data (slides)

 

Marianne Johnson, Irma-Leena Notkola (both ReTki - Finnish Information Centre for Register Research)

Nicole Quitzsch, Erdal Baran (both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

Employing DDI at the UK Data Archive - Now and Next (slides)

A Generic Multilevel Approach for Designing Domain Ontologies based on XML Schemas (slides)

 

Jack Kneeshaw (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

Thomas Bosch, Brigitte Mathiak (both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

DDI at the Australian Data Archive (slides)

Using DDI Lifecycle in Relational Database Systems (RDBs) - Opportunities and Challenges (slides)

 

Steven McEachern, Deborah Mitchell (both ADA - Australian Data Archive), Ben Evans, Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs (ANU - Australian National University Supercomputing Facility)

Ingo Barkow (DIPF - German institute for international educational research), David Schiller (IAB - Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency)

10:30

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11:00

Break in Foyer

11:00

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12:30

Conference Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent C1: Reusing and Sharing Metadata

Concurrent C2: Complementary Standards

 

Location: House A, AK2 138

Location: House A, AK2 139

 

Chair: Larry Hoyle

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

 

Structured Metadata for Reuse (slides)

The Ongoing Work for a Technical Vocabulary of DDI and SDMX Terms (slides, additional material)

 

Marion Wittenberg (DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services), Merja Karjalainen (SND - Swedish National Data Service)

Marco Pellegrino (Eurostat)

 

The ISCED Standard for Coding of Education and DDI-Lifecycle (slides)

 

 

Hilde Orten (NSD - Norwegian Social Science Data Services), Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

DDI and SDMX: How Do They Fit Together in Practical Terms? (slides)

 

Question Bank Cultural Changes in the Netherlands (slides)

Arofan Gregory (ODaF - Open Data Foundation)

 

 

 

Marion Wittenberg (DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services)

 

12:30

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14:00

Lunch at Margareta Hvitfeldts Auditorium in House C

 

14:00

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15:00

Conference Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent D1: Enhancing the Use of DDI

Concurrent D2: Tools and Implementations

 

Location: House A, AK2 138

Location: House A, AK2 139

 

Chair: Randy Banks

Chair: Jannik Jensen

 

Integrating DDI Metadata into your Research Process (slides)

DDI as a Common Format for Export and Import from Statistical Packages (slides)

 

Jeremy Iverson (Colectica), Joan Corbett (National Centre for Social Research), Sophia Kuan (Booz Allen Hamilton), Abdul Rahim (Metadata Technology), Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)

Larry Hoyle (IPSR- Institute for Policy & Social Research, University of Kansas), Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

Developing a Generic Process Model for Longitudinal Data Collections (slides)

Creating a Prototype Application Compatible with DDI 3.1 for the STARDAT Project (slides)

 

Marcel Hebing (SOEP - German Socio-Economic Panel, DIW Berlin), William Block (CISER - Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Alexander Mühlbauer (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

The Cornell Census-NSF Research Node: Integrated Research Support, Training and Data Documentation (slides)

Single-serve Software - Meeting the Needs of a New Generation of Users (slides)

 

 

 

William Block (CISER - Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Samuel Spencer (Open-source developer)

15:00

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15:30

Break in Foyer

15:30

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17:00

Conference Plenary 2: Current Status

 

Location: House A, AK2 136

 

Chair: William Block

DDI Specification: Current Status and Outlook (slides)

 

Wendy Thomas (Technical Implementation Committee, DDI Alliance)

Questions and Grumbles? Answers from TIC

 

Arofan Gregory, Wendy Thomas, and Joachim Wackerow (all Technical Implementation Committee, DDI Alliance)

Invitation to EDDI12 and Goodbye (slides)

Nikos Askitas, Joachim Wackerow (both EDDI core team), and Ørnulf Risnes (NSD - Norwegian Social Science Data Services)

18:00

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19:00

Reception at Swedish National Data Service - SND (Gegerfeltska Villan), Arkitektgatan 3

Wednesday December 7, 2011

9:00

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17:00

Special Meetings

Concurrent M2: Qualitative Data

Concurrent M3: Software Development

Concurrent M4: Data Without Boundaries Meeting

 

Location: House A, A1 314

Location: House A, A1 316

Location: House A, A1 318

 

Chair: Louise Corti

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

Chair: Franck Cotton

 

The Challenge of Qualitative Data: Standardizing metadata structures and the DDI

DDI Developers Meeting

Data without Boundaries Thematic Workshop on Metadata (slides)

Thursday December 8, 2011

9:00

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17:00

Special Meetings

 

Concurrent M2: Qualitative Data (cont.)

Concurrent M3: Software Development (cont.)

Concurrent M5: Data Without Boundaries WP7

 

Location: House A, A1 314

Location: House A, A1 316

Location: SND (Gegerfeltska Villan), Arkitektgatan 3

 

Chair: Louise Corti

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

Chair: Iris Alfredsson

 

The Challenge of Qualitative Data: Standardizing metadata structures and the DDI (cont.)

DDI Developers Meeting (cont.)

Data Without Boundaries Working Package 7 Meeting

Friday December 9, 2011

9:00

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16:00

Special Meetings

 

Concurrent M2: Qualitative Data (cont.)

Concurrent M3: Software Development (cont.)

 

 

Location: House A, A1 314

Location: House A, A1 316

 

 

Chair: Louise Corti

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

 

 

The Challenge of Qualitative Data: Standardizing metadata structures and the DDI (cont.)

DDI Developers Meeting (cont.)