Speakers
Description
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 organization efforts in different ways, and present the metadata differently in their portals, the use of common DDI-Lifecycle metadata structures simplifies the possibilities for collaboration, in particular the mapping of overlapping concepts which have been identified across both LPS data collections.
We plan to discuss how we have managed our collaborations thus far and include highlights from an in-person workshop we held together earlier this year. Further, we will explain some of the details of our respective approaches to creating conceptual variable groups and why these are important to our projects and to future reuse.
NACDA is part of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and based at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. CLOSER is based at the University College London (UCL) Social Research Institute (SRI).
