27–29 Nov 2023
Hotel Slon
Europe/Ljubljana timezone

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  1. Alina Danciu (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP)), Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL), Mr András Micsik (MTA SZTAKI), Mr Christophe Dzikowski (INSEE), Dr Claus-Peter Klas (GESIS), Knut Wenzig (DIW Berlin), Judit Gárdos (Centre for Social Sciences – MTA Centre for Excellence)
    27/11/2023, 09:00
    Machine Learning, AI and Automation
    Tutorial or Workshop

    The background for this workshop are recent calls for proposals where participants had limited understanding of the scope of metadata holdings, local computer science expertise and knowledge of current work being done at institutions to be able to develop a focused and convincing proposal for funding.
    The development of the European Question Bank, and the European Language Social Science...

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  2. Arofan Gregory (CODATA), Maja Dolinar (Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), Adrian Dusa (University of Bucharest ), Christophe Dzikowski (INSEE)
    27/11/2023, 13:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Tutorial or Workshop

    The DDI specifications cover a wide range of needs in data production, management, reuse, and dissemination. Deciding on which specification is best depends on the organisational challenges faced, and specific requirements. This tutorial is for an audience which is unfamiliar with the DDI standards. It introduces the different specifications, and considers the uses to which standard,...

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  3. Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL), Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Tampere University)
    28/11/2023, 09:00
  4. Irena Vipavc Brvar (ADP)
    28/11/2023, 09:15

    Welcome from Local Organisation Committee

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  5. Iztok Prezel (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana )
    28/11/2023, 09:20

    Iztok Prezel, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences

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  6. Miro Pušnik (Director of the Central Technical Library, University of Ljubljana)
    28/11/2023, 09:30
    Keynote

    Miro Pušnik the Director of the Central Technical Library at the In 2021, Slovenia signed up to the Pact for Research and Innovation, a commitment that establishes common values and principles for research and innovation in the European Research Area (ERA). Slovenia has actively responded to the need to harmonise research and innovation activities by adopting comprehensive legislation and...

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  7. Lucie Marie (Sciences Po, Centre for socio-political data (CDSP), CNRS)
    28/11/2023, 11:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    Panel survey data is often repeated to allow comparisons over time. However, questionnaires may be slightly adjusted over data collection waves - and therefore the datasets variables. Impacting the comparability, data harmonization may be required to maintain the panel data “mission”.

    Based on the ELIPSS panel use case, this talk will show opportunities of a centralized metadata management...

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  8. Victoria Lubitch (Scholars Portal )
    28/11/2023, 11:00
    Software and Tools
    Regular Presentation

    Recognizing the significance of DDI for use in data archives and research data management, this presentation aims to introduce the [Dataverse Data Curation Tool][1], an open and integrated DDI application that supports editing dataset variable metadata in Dataverse. An overview of the current challenges and limitations of integration of DDI into Dataverse, including issues related to metadata...

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  9. Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
    28/11/2023, 11:30
    Software and Tools
    Regular Presentation

    Data collections at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences are currently managed with a common metadata database to support the search and re-use of research data. This involves a variety of tools, e.g. for study-level documentation, PID registration, data file management, and question and variable documentation. Colectica is currently added to the available metadata management...

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  10. Becky Oldroyd (CLOSER / UCL)
    28/11/2023, 11:30
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Regular Presentation

    CLOSER Discovery is the UK’s most comprehensive research tool for longitudinal population studies, containing questionnaire and dataset metadata for 11 leading UK studies.

    Creating questionnaire metadata can be a time-consuming and challenging task. Historically, CLOSER’s Metadata Assistants (MAs) entered the questionnaire metadata into our in-house developed DDI questionnaire editor –...

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  11. Gregor Zibert (UL-FDV-ADP), Janez Stebe (UL-FDV-ADP)
    28/11/2023, 12:00
    Software and Tools
    Short Presentation

    The Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP) have developed an XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) stylesheet to align the data, variable, and question descriptions within a selection of current ADP DDI 2.5 codebook instances with the established CESSDA European Question Bank (EQB) DDI 2.5 harvesting profile. This effort was undertaken as part of the Social Sciences &...

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  12. Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)
    28/11/2023, 12:00
    Software and Tools
    Regular Presentation

    Colectica is delighted to launch Colectica 7.3 at EDDI. Colectica is software for creating, publishing, centralizing, and managing DDI metadata within and across organizations. It is used by national statistical organizations, university research groups, and data collection agencies to provide well-documented data to researchers and the public. Colectica is built on open standards like DDI and...

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  13. Dr Geta Mitrea (University `Stefan cel Mare` of Suceava, Romania), Mr Florent Diverchy (Lecturer European Communication School in Brussels, Belgium & Marketing Intelligence Manager, Produpress, Belgium)
    28/11/2023, 13:45
    Official Statistics
    Regular Presentation

    The present paper is focused on the work of an expert group on ‘Facilitating the use of new data sources for official statistics’ created by Eurostat during March 2021 – May 2022. The main purpose of this expert group was to reflect on new opportunities riced once with our rapidly changing and increasingly data-driven society and make recommendations to enhance the reuse of private sector data...

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  14. John Shepherdson (CESSDA ERIC), Mr Joshua Tetteh Ocansey (CESSDA ERIC), Mr Kostas Papagiannopoulos (National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)), Mr Matthew Morris (CESSDA ERIC)
    28/11/2023, 13:45
    Software and Tools
    Regular Presentation

    The [domain agnostic metrics][1] adopted by FAIR data assessment tools tend to penalise metadata aggregators, like the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC). This became apparent during the work done for the ‘[Bulk FAIR assessment of the CESSDA Data Catalogue using the F-UJI API][2]’ (as presented at EDDI2022).

    Building on that work, FAIR scores were generated by the F-UJI and FAIR EVA tools for...

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  15. Arianna Caporali (French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)), Dr Olga Grünwald (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI))
    28/11/2023, 14:10
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Short Presentation

    The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a cross-national longitudinal panel survey on life-course and family dynamics launched in the year 2000. It comprises two rounds of data collection: Generations and Gender Survey-I (GGS-I), covering 19 countries, and GGS-II, initiated in 2017 and currently ongoing, with data available so far for 10 countries. The GGP is on the European Strategy...

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  16. Mr Chandra Shekhar Roy (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.)
    28/11/2023, 14:10
    Official Statistics
    Full Paper

    Making historical analog data Re-useable:
    a successful outcome of Data Rescue/Conservation Discipline at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
    Short Title: Historical Data Conversion and Archiving.

    Chandra Shekhar Roy1
    Alamgir Hossain2
    1Senior Maintenance Engineer-IT, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Statistics & Informatics Division,
    Ministry of Planning, E27/A, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207,...

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  17. Noemi Betancort (RDC Qualiservice, University of Bremen / State and University Library Bremen)
    28/11/2023, 14:35
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Short Presentation

    The QualidataNetwork (QualidataNet) links several research data centers that archive and provide access to sensitive qualitative research data. It is part of the Consortium for Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD) at the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany.

    In 2022, we presented the project, our goals and how we plan to move forward. Many...

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  18. Janete Saldanha Bach (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
    28/11/2023, 15:30
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Full Paper

    In Social Sciences surveys, the dynamic relationship among survey instruments and study entities like questionnaires, variables, questions, and response formats evolve. When reusing variables, researchers may need to modify variable attributes such as labels or names, question-wording, or response scales. Therefore, explaining these relations across different waves and studies is necessary to...

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  19. Mr Marcel Hanselmann (Swiss Institute for Information Science)
    28/11/2023, 15:30
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Regular Presentation

    The Swiss Virtual Educational Observatory (VEO) project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It has the goal to link and to visual sources of research data about education and learning. While concentrating on research data itself data documentation and sources of open research data are relevant as well.
    The first step to find research data is looking for open data and data...

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  20. Alina DANCIU (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP))
    28/11/2023, 15:55
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Short Presentation

    The French Center for Socio-Political Data is jointly operated and financed by Sciences Po, one of the leading SSH French universities, and the French Center for National Research (CNRS). One of the center’s main missions has been to serve the French and international SSH communities by facilitating the reuse of surveys and data, both quantitative and qualitative, in the fields of sociology...

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  21. Maja Dolinar (Slovenian Social Science Data Archives, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
    28/11/2023, 15:55
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    CESSDA has launched version 3 of its Vocabulary Service (CVS), a significant upgrade from version 2. Accessible at https://vocabularies.cessda.eu, CVS offers users the capability to explore and download multilingual controlled vocabularies in formats like SKOS, HTML, and PDF. The Editor component empowers authorized individuals to manage and translate vocabularies. Many vocabularies have been...

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  22. Hilde Orten (Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research), Jared Lyle (ICPSR, University of Michigan), Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL)
    28/11/2023, 16:20
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Complete Session

    Join the chairs of the DDI Executive Board and the DDI Scientific Board, as well as the DDI Executive Director, to discuss Alliance priorities and plans, especially with an eye toward user and member needs. Engage in thoughtful conversations and Q&A, especially as we envision DDI's strategic role in the exciting future of metadata.

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  23. Ojsteršek MIlan (Univerity of Maribor)
    29/11/2023, 09:00
    Keynote

    FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs) are datasets, publications, software, services, workflows, lab notebooks, and other digital results of research that are easily discoverable by humans and machines. FDOs are accessible to anyone with permission, interoperable with other digital objects regardless of their format or software, and reusable without modification for the same or different purposes. The...

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  24. Wendy Thomas
    29/11/2023, 10:30
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Regular Presentation

    The vision of DDI has grown over the years from a simple codebook for microdata and aggregate data files, to a model that supported metadata-driven data systems, to a suite of products that supports a variety of applications in a broad area of coverage across several related disciplines. This shift in focus reflects changes in the data environment, technology, and user needs over time. It...

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  25. Romain Tailhurat (Insee)
    29/11/2023, 10:59
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Regular Presentation

    Official statistics increasingly rely on external sources, particularly administrative data, to produce statistics. This requires further industrialisation of the data integration before the downstream steps leading to dissemination.
    In 2021, INSEE has launched a project named Resil with the objective of centralising administrative data ingestion for further processing of social statistics....

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  26. Joachim Wackerow (Independent expert)
    29/11/2023, 11:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    This presentation describes the model-driven approach of DDI-CDI. In this way, it is possible to generate related syntax representations (such as XML Schema and RDF) and field-level documentation of the UML model. A subset mechanism allows targeted generation for specific use cases such as the process description. Experimental work will also be shown using visualization and sonification...

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  27. Knut Wenzig (DIW Berlin), Mrs Xiaoyao Han (DIW Berlin / SOEP)
    29/11/2023, 11:30
    Open Data, Metadata and Linked Open Data
    Regular Presentation

    An investigation was conducted to examine the extent to which metadata in different Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standards is openly available and which elements of these standards are used. DDI is a set of international standards for describing and documenting data used in social, behavioural, economic, and health sciences research.

    To identify the online repositories, where DDI...

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  28. Ivan Evdokimov (University of Essex)
    29/11/2023, 11:30
    Machine Learning, AI and Automation
    Regular Presentation

    Recent developments in Machine Learning (ML) show robust performance in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as sentiment analysis and document classification. Our ML task is one of short text classification, specifically we are endeavouring to annotate variables using the variable name, label, question text and representation. Our task is one of multi-class...

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  29. Hayley Mills
    29/11/2023, 12:45
    Software and Tools
    Poster

    CLOSER Discovery is the UK’s most comprehensive research tool for longitudinal population studies (LPS). DDI-Lifecycle is used to document questionnaire, question, dataset and variable metadata from 11 (and counting) leading UK studies. CLOSER Discovery is powered by the Colectica software stack including a customised Colectica Portal which sits on top of Colectica Repository, and provides...

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  30. Jenny Li (CLOSER, UCL)
    29/11/2023, 12:45
    Software and Tools
    Poster

    Colectica Portal is widely used to disseminate DDI-LIfecycle metadata. It acts as a website which sits on top of Colectica Repository and provides access to item level metadata through display as web pages and as downloads in a number of formats.
    The API is documented in the swagger documentation that is supplied with Colectica Portal, but for those unfamiliar with either API programming or...

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  31. Deirdre Lungley
    29/11/2023, 13:05
    Software and Tools
    Poster

    With the Data Product Builder (DPB) the UK Data Service (UKDS) aims to allow researchers access to on-demand linked subsets of data, dynamically assessed for emergent disclosure risk in real time. Such a system depends both on sophisticated upstream metadata and powerful downstream computation. We detail the pipeline components required to take original curated data in traditional...

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  32. Kathryn Lavender (ICPSR, NACDA), Jennifer Zeiger (ICPSR, NACDA)
    29/11/2023, 13:30
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    In this presentation, we plan to describe NACDA’s efforts over the last year to develop a multi-series comparison of longitudinal, nationally representative, National Institute on Aging funded data collections using DDI-Lifecycle, as well as share some lessons learned.

    The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA, part of ICPSR) began working with DDI-Lifecycle in 2018. Since...

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  33. Christophe Dzikowski (INSEE), Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL), Dr Sophiane Kab (INSERM)
    29/11/2023, 13:30
    (Meta)Data Harmonization
    Regular Presentation

    DDI-Lifecycle utilises the variable cascade to organise and describe data from conception to collection.
    The organisation of conceptual variables and conceptual variable groups allows comparison of data at different time points, universes, representations and many other dimensions through concordance tables and is well suited to iterative data collected as panels, cohorts, repeated surveys...

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  34. Dan Smith (Colectica)
    29/11/2023, 13:55
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    The current research data environment provides many opportunities for linking similar topical datasets and harmonizing extant common variables. The DDI Lifecycle standard supports documenting these linkages, but few software tools are available to facilitate the actual performance of this resource-intensive task. This project uses a DDI based framework to assemble richly-described datasets...

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  35. Dan Gillman (Data Unchained, LLC)
    29/11/2023, 13:55
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Full Paper

    A value domain is the description of the values a variable is allowed to take. The idea originated with the ISO/IEC 11179 series of standards. DDI-CDI makes use of them explicitly, and DDI-L uses the idea as well. However, metadata reuse depends on which metadata are assigned to a variable, and which are assigned to a value domain. We address this here.

    We can illustrate the problem with an...

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  36. Kathryn Lavender (ICPSR, NACDA), Hayley Mills (CLOSER)
    29/11/2023, 14:20
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) and CLOSER - the interdisciplinary partnership of leading UK social and biomedical longitudinal population studies (LPS), have been discussing ways to collaborate and create common conceptual groups across their social science data collections in their Colectica Portals.

    Although NACDA and CLOSER have approached metadata...

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  37. Oliver Hopt
    29/11/2023, 14:20
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    Mixed mode surveys are not new but have become quite popular or necessary recently due to a variety of reasons such as enhanced response rates, access to diverse populations or flexibility.
    When it comes to creation, documentation, or management of mixed-mode survey they become complex to handle, then having one master questionnaire. More complexity is followed by more resources, making...

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  38. Arofan Gregory (CODATA)
    29/11/2023, 15:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    This presentation will summarize the capabilities of the DDI Coss-Domain Interoperability specification, and describe how early imple,entations have used the standard, both on its own and in combination with other DDI specifications. The focus of the working group in the near- to mid-term will be described, as will prospects for adoption through various FAIR initiatives. The range of available...

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  39. John Kunze (ARK Alliance and Ronin Institute), Donny Winston
    29/11/2023, 15:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    Any DDI dataset, ancillary, or supporting file is a candidate for systematic, persistent identification with ARK identifiers. End users, especially researchers, rely on ARKs for long term access to the global scientific and cultural record. Since 2001 some 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1100 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government...

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  40. Dr Magdalena Năpăruş-Aljancic (Karst research Institute ZRC SAZU), Mr Žan Kafol (Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU; KAFOL.NET,)
    29/11/2023, 15:30
    Open Data, Metadata and Linked Open Data
    Short Presentation

    Karstology is a multidisciplinary science that encompasses a wide range of earth and life sciences: hydrology, geology, biology, geomorphology, ecology, microbiology, speleology, and history of karst science. The Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU reinforced its long tradition of excellent research by becoming the national coordinator and headquarters of three major environmental European RIs...

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  41. Hilde Orten (Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research)
    29/11/2023, 15:30
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    The objective of the ‘Climate Neutral and Smart Cities’ Science Project of EOSC Future is to demonstrate that relevant environmental data and data on citizens' values, attitudes, behavior and involvement can be combined in a meaningful way for social, political and scientific analysis.
    The Science Project rests on three pillars: Indicator production and integration of data from three...

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  42. Markus Tuominen (Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD))
    29/11/2023, 16:00
    Software and Tools
    Regular Presentation

    One of the primary objectives of the BeYond-COVID project was the integration of social sciences & humanities studies’ metadata into the COVID-19 Data Portal. This presentation focuses on the technical work done to achieve this for studies found in CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC).

    Focus of the presentation is the implementation of XML transformation from DDI-Codebook 2.5 to extended OmicsDI...

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  43. Benjamin Beuster (Sikt - Norwegian agency for shared services in education and research), Mr Joachim Wackerow
    29/11/2023, 16:00
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Regular Presentation

    The "Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” Science Project contributes significantly to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Future Project by showcasing cross-domain data integration using the new DDI-CDI metadata specification. This presentation demonstrates the use of the DDI-CDI Process Model, which offers a standardized approach to comprehensively describe data lineage and integration...

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  44. Mr Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL), Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Tampere University)
    29/11/2023, 16:30
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  46. Mr Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL), Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population Center)
    Interoperability, Reusing and Sharing Metadata
    Side Meeting

    The Technical Committee meet face-to-face on a yearly basis to review progress and plan work over the year, in addition to resolving issues which need focused discussion which is more suited to a face-to-face environments

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  47. Alina DANCIU (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP)), Kathryn Lavender (ICPSR)
    User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
    Side Meeting

    The DDI Training Group (TG) expects to have several members attending the EDDI 2023 conference in person. With this in mind we plan to discuss notable EDDI presentations, debrief on the training workshop and discuss training plans for 2024, and possible target groups (e.g. researchers). We are considering opening the meeting to non-members of the training group.
    This will be a half-day meeting.

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  48. Mr Antonino Rotolo (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
    Tutorial or Workshop

    High performance computing (HPC) is key to Europe’s future prosperity, digital transformation and resilience. This has been acknowledged by the EU strategy and investments. One recent initiative in this context is the establishment of the Italian National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing. This centre, which is funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan...

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