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Program of the 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting

DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle

December 8-9, SURFfoundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Final Program as of 4. December 2010

Monday December 6, 2010

9:00

-

17:00

Special Meetings

 

Location: SURF 5b / SURF 2

 

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

 

DDI Developers Workshop (Agenda, Minutes)

Tuesday December 7, 2010

9:00

-

17:00

Special Meetings

 

Location: SURF 1 / SURF 2

 

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

 

DDI Developers Workshop

Wednesday December 8, 2010

8:15

 

 

Starting Registration

9:00

-

12:30

Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent W1

Concurrent W2

Concurrent W3

 

Location: SURF 1

Location: SURF 5a

Location: SURF 3

 

Chair: Laurents Sesink

Chair: Joachim Wackerow

Chair: Jeremy Iverson

 

Course on DDI 3:

Putting DDI to Work for You (Slides)

Introduction to the
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Standard
(Slides)

DDI Developers Workshop

 

Wendy Thomas (MPC - Minnesota Population Center)

Arofan Gregory (ODaF - Open Data Foundation)

 

 

12:30

-

14:00

Lunch 

14:00

-

15:30

Plenary 1: Welcome and Keynote

 

Location: SURF 5ab

 

Chair: Rob Grim

Welcome

 

Program Committee: Nikos Askitas, Eric Balster, John Doove, Rob Grim, Laurents Sesink, Joachim Wackerow (chair)

 

Challenges for Data Intensive Research (Slides)

 

 

 

Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

15:30

-

16:00

Break

16:00

-

17:30

Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent A1: Searching and Locating

Concurrent A2: Project Updates

 

Location: SURF 5a

Location: SURF 5b

 

Chair: Tito Castillo

Chair: Nikos Askitas

 

DataCite: Making Data Citable (Abstract, Slides)

Keeping up with Questasy (Abstract, Slides)

 

Wolfgang Zenk‐Möltgen, Brigitte Hausstein (both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Jan Brase (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology)

Alerk Amin (CentERdata - Institute for Data Collection and Research)

 

If you build it, they will come: the case for creating DDI 3 metadata and the advanced search and discovery tools that will follow (Abstract, Slides)

Data Service Center for Business and Organizational Data – Specifics concerning DDI dealing with organizational data (Abstract, Slides)

 

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

Christian Gerhards (Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology)

 

DDI at the Swedish National Data Service (Abstract, Slides)

 

 

 

 

Johan Fihn, Olof Olsson, Iris Alfredsson, Hans Jørgen Marker (all SND - Swedish National Data Service)

 

17:30

-

18:30

Reception

19:00

 

 

Dinner for invited quests

22:00

 

 

After-dinner get-together at King Arthur

Thursday December 9, 2010

9:00

-

10:15

Plenary 2: Metadata in the Data Production Process

 

Location: SURF 5ab

 

Chair: Hans Jørgen Marker

Metadata Driven Survey Design (Abstract, Slides)

 

Jeremy Iverson (Algenta Technologies)

Exploring the relationship between DDI, SDMX and the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (Abstract, Slides)

 

Steven Vale (UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

10:15

-

10:45

Break

10:45

-

12:15

Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent B1: DDI Software

Concurrent B2: Reports and Updates on DDI activities

 

Location: SURF 5a

Location: SURF 5b

 

Chair: Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen

Chair: William Block

 

DDI + API: building services on top of your existing DDI holdings (Abstract, Slides)

Controlled vocabularies for DDI and other metadata structures - an update (Abstract, Slides)

 

Ørnulf Risnes (Nesstar)

Meinhard Moschner (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Taina Jääsekläinen (FSD - Finnish Social Science Data Archive), Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

A query-based access system using DDI and SDMX (Abstract, Slides)

 

Locating objects identified by DDI3 Uniform Resource Names (Abstract, Slides)

 

Don McIntosh (STR - Space-Time Research) / presented by Arofan Gegory

Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

 

 

Progress from the DDI Working Group on Qualitative Data (Abstract, Slides)

 

Colectica: A Platform for DDI 3-based Metadata Management (Abstract, Slides)

Louise Corti (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)

 

Development of the next DDI Tools Catalog (Abstract, Slides)

 

 

 

Dan Smith (Algenta Technologies)

Stefan Kramer (CISER - Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

12:15

-

13:45

Lunch

13:45

-

15:00

Concurrent Sessions

 

Concurrent C1: From DDI 2 to DDI 3

Concurrent C2: Data Collection

 

Location: SURF 5a

Location: SURF 5b

 

Chair: John Doove

Chair: Alerk Amin

 

The use of DDI tools and standards in epidemiology & public health research (Abstract, Slides)

Putting DDI in the driver’s seat: Using Metadata to control data capture (Abstract, Slides)

 

Tito Castillo (Institute of Child Health, University College London)

Samuel Spencer (ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics)

 

The STARDAT Project: Integrating DDI Tools at the GESIS Data Archive (Abstract, Slides)

Converting general Microsoft Word questionnaires to DDI (Abstract, Slides)

 

Monika Linne, Alexander Mühlbauer, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen (all GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

Nadine Dulisch (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

15:00

-

15:30

Break

15:30

-

17:00

Plenary 3: Current Status and Recent Events

 

Location: SURF 5ab

 

Chair: Eric Balster

Report on Dagstuhl Workshop on Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data - Best Practices (Slides)

 

William Block and Stefan Kramer (both Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Report on Developers Workshop (Slides)

 

Jeremy Iverson (Algenta Technologies)

DDI Specification: Current Status and Outlook (Slides)

 

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

Ask the Experts

 

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

Goodbye

Nikos Askitas and Joachim Wackerow (EDDI core team)