15th European DDI Users Conference, Ljubljana

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...

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...

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...