The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) began working with DDI-Lifecycle in 2018. Since then, NACDA has made efforts to document in DDI-L some of our most established and frequently-used longitudinal data collections and display them on a Colectica Portal. In this presentation, I will discuss how the system of topical groups and subgroups we use to organize the conceptual...
INSEE, the French national statistical office, has launched an overhaul of its dissemination processes in order to improve efficiency and services to producers. Part of this project involves developing a data dissemination platform where data can be discovered and consistency between data and metadata verified. In terms of metadata, this boils down to describing the structure of the data and...
DDI standards offer an extremely valuable solution to metadata management throughout the whole data acquisition, processing and dissemination phases. However, when documenting variables in repeated context - one of the most fundamental entities of any data process - challenges may arise to find the ideal way of using DDI. There are several contexts in which repeated variables are created...
