15th European DDI Users Conference, Ljubljana

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...

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 –...

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 &...