16th European DDI Users Conference, Chur

The CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) has long supported metadata about Social Science studies in DDI Codebook 1.2.2 and 2.5 forms. Historically, however, metadata in DDI Lifecycle formats has not been supported. This was a pain point for CESSDA’s service providers who work with this format.

The CESSDA Metadata Office has created mapping from DDI 3 metadata to CDC UI elements which was the basis...

Since 2020, the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has undertaken a significant transformation in its data dissemination and metadata production processes. Following a thorough evaluation of alternatives to the Nesstar software to the implementation of the NADA Microdata Cataloging Tool and the metadata update and migration process, we are now two years into using NADA. We devised...

In the DDI Developers group we have been discussing the need for a simple data documentation tool to do basic documentation of a dataset. The goal is to develop a simple client side only application to document datasets with the possibility of building integration with repositories to load data and metadata. During 2024, the first basic concept of this tool was developed during the DDI...