Name: 16th European DDI Users Conference, Chur
Start: 2024-12-02T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-06T17:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (Pulvermühlestrasse 57)

16th European DDI Users Conference, Chur

from Monday, 2 December 2024 (09:00) to Friday, 6 December 2024 (17:00)

Monday, 2 December 2024 ¶
09:00 DDI Alliance Questionnaires Working Group - Romain Tailhurat (Making Sense)
DDI Alliance Questionnaires Working Group
- Romain Tailhurat (Making Sense)
09:00 - 12:30
Room: SIL Do you document questionnaires with DDI-Lifecycle? The DDI Questions and Questionnaire Working Group invites you to participate in a workshop to discuss how the DDI Alliance can make use of the standard easier for you. The session will include discussions on what you wish DDI-Lifecycle could do, and what aspects are most challenging when documenting questionnaires. The outputs will be used to; 1) improve the DDI standard 2) provide insights into where improved guidance is needed 3) feed into the DDI Developers Working Group for potential new light weight tooling. The intended audience is anyone currently or is planning on working with DDI-Lifecycle and questionnaires. There are no prerequisites.
DDI Scientific Board Meeting - Ingo Barkow (FHGR)
DDI Scientific Board Meeting
- Ingo Barkow (FHGR)
09:00 - 17:00
Room: B2.03.02 Meeting of the DDI Alliance Scientific Board
Tools and processes for generating and manipulating DDI-XML files - Julie Lenoir (French Institute for Demographic Studies)
Tools and processes for generating and manipulating DDI-XML files
- Julie Lenoir (French Institute for Demographic Studies)
09:00 - 12:30
Room: A3.08 **Location: Building A: Room A3.08** Producing, harmonising and updating metadata are tasks metadata curators have to do regularly in order to make sure catalogues and their contents stay up-to-standards. Drawing from the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) experience, this workshop aims at sharing about new procedures implemented in the last two years in order to support the needs for generating and manipulating DDI-XML files. The goal is for attendees to understand these procedures and be able to adapt them to their specific needs. The first block will focus on the process for study-level documentation implemented at INED to facilitate data collection from research teams and accelerate the documentation writing process. This consists of an R script drawing information from a form (in our case a Microsoft Word one) and exporting it to a DDI-Codebook 2.5 XML file. The goal will be both to explain how the script works and to touch on some ways it could be adapted to other institutions standards or needs in terms of documentation. I will also quickly showcase the script used for variable-level documentation. The second block will present how to use the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and more specifically how one can use XSL Transformations (XSLT) to transform DDI-XML files. The presentation will consist of a quick overview of XSL, and will then focus on providing working examples (notably add attributes, add, replace or reorder tags). **Intended audience**: metadata producers and/or curators working with DDI-Codebook 2.5 **Pre-requisites**: good knowledge of XML and of DDI-Codebook schema, good knowledge of the R language (the script uses the following packages: xml2, XML and xslt).
13:30 Colectica Datasets Unveiled: Software for Data Viewing, Curation, and Publication - Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)
Colectica Datasets Unveiled: Software for Data Viewing, Curation, and Publication
- Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)
13:30 - 17:00
Room: A1.02 This workshop introduces Colectica Datasets, a powerful new application designed for viewing, improving, and publishing data files. Running on both Windows and macOS, Colectica Datasets supports a wide range of dataset formats, including Parquet, SPSS, SAS, Stata, and CSV. Participants will learn to: - **View**: Learn how to inspect, visualize, and analyze datasets to quickly understand the data. - **Curate**: Discover techniques for curating, cleaning, and annotating datasets and their metadata, ensuring high-quality documentation and preparation for analysis. - **Publish**: Explore methods to share, export, convert, and archive datasets in a variety of formats, making data dissemination and long-term preservation seamless. Through hands-on activities, attendees will experience the full functionality of Colectica Datasets. This workshop is ideal for researchers, data managers, and anyone looking to enhance their data management skills.
17:15 City Tour
City Tour
17:15 - 19:00
Meeting point: In the hall of the Chur main train station; in front of the “Flying Tiger” Store (https://www.sbb.ch/de/reiseinformationen/bahnhoefe/bahnhof-finden/bahnhof-chur/geschaefte/shop-detail.html/geo-flying-tiger-copenhagen-eff9). Participants will be guided to the conference-opening after the tour.

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: Foyer
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 ¶

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Foyer

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Aula

09:15

09:15 - 09:20
Room: Aula
09:20 Sam Oh (Executive Director, Dublin Core)
Sam Oh (Executive Director, Dublin Core)
09:20 - 10:20
Room: Aula
Contributions

09:20 Enhancing FAIR Principles via Metadata: The Dublin Core Journey - Sam Oh (Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI))
10:15

10:15 - 10:45
Room: Foyer
10:45
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Aula
Contributions

10:45 Metacurate-ML: Metadata Extraction from CAI - Suparna De (University of Surrey)

11:05 Metacurate-ML: Conceptual Comparison - Suparna De (University of Surrey)

11:25 Metacurate-ML: Enhanced Data Curation - Automation of Disclosure Control Assessment - Deirdre Lungley
10:45 - 12:15
Room: A1.02
Contributions

10:45 New Study and New Features: A Colectica Portal for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study - Barry Radler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:05 Processing cross-national longitudinal panel surveys to document rich metadata using automation and open standards: the case of the Generations & Gender Programme - Thibaud Ritzenthaler

11:25 Automating Survey Processes: Metadata Based Improvements to the NEPS Survey Life Cycle - Simon Dickopf (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi))
12:15

12:15 - 13:15
Room: Foyer
13:15
13:15 - 14:45
Room: Aula
Contributions

13:15 DDI RDF for the masses - Darren Bell (UK Data Service)

13:35 “You are what you eat”: Deploying a method for creating an accurate ML model for variable tagging using ELSST vocabularies - Jieun Jeong (Centre for socio-political data, Sciences Po, CNRS) Lucie MARIE (Centre for socio-political data, Sciences Po, CNRS)

13:55 The KDK Thesaurus – sustainable thematic metadata? - Júlia Egyed-Gergely (Hungarian Research Network Centre for Social Sciences, Research Documentation Centre (KDK)) Judit Gárdos (Hungarian Research Network Centre for Social Sciences, Research Documentation Centre (KDK)) Enikő Meiszterics (Hungarian Research Network Centre for Social Sciences, Research Documentation Centre (KDK))

14:15 The ONTOLISST project on DDI metadata, vocabularies and NLP - Alina DANCIU (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP)) Judit Gárdos (Hungarian Research Network Centre for Social Sciences, Research Documentation Centre (KDK)) Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Tampere University)
13:15 - 14:45
Room: A1.02
Contributions

13:15 PROGEDO’s new and improved data repository: shining a spotlight on metadata - Ami SAJI (CNRS (PROGEDO)) Nicolas Sauger (PROGEDO / Sciences Po)

13:35 Optimising Metadata Quality in LIFEOBS: The Role of DDI Standards in Harmonisation Across Diverse Data Documentation Teams - Anna Sidorets (CNRS - PROGEDO) Lucas Bourcier (INED)

13:55 COORDINATE Project and CESSDA Tools: Empowering Child and Youth Wellbeing Research through a Thematic Metadata Portal - Markus Tuominen (Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD))
14:45

14:45 - 15:15
Room: Foyer
15:15
15:15 - 16:30
Room: Aula
Contributions

15:15 Publishing Fine-Grained DDI Metadata: Learnings from Efforts in Three Different RDCs - Knut Wenzig (DIW Berlin/SOEP)

15:35 Harvesting DDI Codebook Metadata at Scale: Challenges and Experiences using OAI-PMH - Xiaoyao Han

15:55 Developing and testing harmonisation workflows for comparative survey data using DDI – a WorldFAIR case study - Steven McEachern (UK Data Service, University of Essex)
15:15 - 16:30
Room: A1.02
Contributions

15:15 Metadata for Social Media and Web Tracking Data - Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

15:35 Streamlining Media File Conversion to DDI-Lifecycle "Other Material" Using AI - Benjamin Beuster (Sikt - Norwegian agency for shared services in education and research)

15:55 AI for Data / Data for AI: Augmentation and Improved Discoverability of DDI Metadata Using LLMs - Aivin Solatorio (The World Bank)
16:30
16:30 - 17:15
Room: Aula
Contributions

16:30 Creating an ISO Standard for the DDI Suite - Dan Gillman (Data Unchained LLC)

16:50 Researchdata.se - A portal to Swedish research data, but why not DDI? - Johan Fihn Marberg (Swedish National Data Service) Olof Olsson (Swedish National Data Service (SND))
18:30

18:30 - 22:00
Wednesday, 4 December 2024 ¶
09:00 Georg Lutz (Director, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
Georg Lutz (Director, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Aula
Contributions

09:00 Navigating Political and Practical Barriers to Open Science in Europe and Switzerland - Georg Lutz (FORS, University of Lausanne)
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Foyer
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula
Contributions

10:30 DDI-Cross Domain Integration: Features, Tools, and Early Adoption - Arofan Gregory (CODATA) Benjamin Beuster (Sikt - Norwegian agency for shared services in education and research) Darren Bell (UK Data Service)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: A1.02
Contributions

10:30 Creating a Custom Concept System to Document Longitudinal Studies - Jennifer Zeiger (ICPSR)

10:50 Mapping PhysicalInstance and DCAT - Christophe Dzikowski (INSEE)

11:10 Guidelines for handling variables in repeated contexts - Romain Tailhurat (Making Sense)
12:00

12:00 - 12:45
Room: Foyer
12:45
12:45 - 13:45
Room: Aula
Contributions

12:45 Shaping the Future of DDI Together - Darren Bell (UK Data Service) Hilde Orten (Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research) Jared Lyle (ICPSR, University of Michigan) Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL) Steven McEachern (UK Data Service, University of Essex)

13:05 Questionnaires with DDI-Lifecycle: community feedback for future improvements - Romain Tailhurat (Making Sense)
12:45 - 13:45
Room: Foyer
Contributions

12:45 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Metadata Creation in the Social Science Japan Data Archive: Metadata Extraction in Social Surveys Using Large Language Models - Takenori Konaka

13:05 Using the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) to Strengthen the Religion Research Community - Tom Clark (University of Sheffield)

13:25 Build software in the DDI Developers community - Ingo Barkow (FHGR) Johan Fihn Marberg (Swedish National Data Service) Oliver Hopt Olof Olsson (Swedish National Data Service (SND))

13:25 DDI-CDI Converter Prototype: Generating Wide Tables for Stata & SPSS - Benjamin Beuster (Sikt - Norwegian agency for shared services in education and research)

13:25 Metadata training as a foundation for DDI implementation - Becky Oldroyd (CLOSER, UCL)

13:25 Engaging with the DDI Strategic and Scientific Work Plans - Jared Lyle (ICPSR, University of Michigan)

13:25 Populating a DDI Codebook using R - Adrian Dusa (University of Bucharest)
13:45
13:45 - 15:00
Room: Aula
Contributions

13:45 Advancing Statistical Metadata at StatsCanada: The Role of DDI 3.3 - Philippe Bisson (Statistics Canada)

14:05 DDI-Lifecycle 3.0 in the production of official statistics: views on a preliminary experience - Alicia Nieto (Statistics Spain)

14:25 New Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Insights acquired from assessing Openness of Air Quality Data in Smart Cities - Hugo Wai Leung MAK (The Chinese University of Hong Kong & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
13:45 - 15:00
Room: A1.02
Contributions

13:45 The Road Forward - Wendy Thomas

14:05 Colectica in Action: Real-World Applications of DDI in Europe across the Data Lifecycle - Jeremy Iverson (Colectica)

14:25 Metadata Editor for DDI Codebook - Mehmood Asghar (World Bank Group)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Foyer
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula
Contributions

15:30 Integrating DDI 3.3 with ModernStats Models at StatCan - Philippe Bisson (Statistics Canada)

15:50 Metadata Interoperability with RDF and JSON-LD in DDI Lifecycle 4 and the Colectica Portal - Dan Smith (Colectica)

16:10 Why GESIS dropped the DDI-FlatDB - Oliver Hopt (GESIS)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: A1.02
Contributions

15:30 Enhancing metadata interoperability: The journey to DDI Lifecycle implementation in the CESSDA Data Catalogue - Matthew Morris (CESSDA)

15:50 A Journey into (meta)data management with DDI - Julie Baron (French Institute for Demographic Studies) Julie Lenoir (French Institute for Demographic Studies)

16:30 Community driven data documentation tool - Nectar Publisher - Olof Olsson (Swedish National Data Service (SND))
17:00

17:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula
Thursday, 5 December 2024 ¶

09:00

09:00 - 17:00
Room: E1.09
DDI Training Working Group - Train the Trainer Collaboration Workshop, EDDI 2024 - Catherine Yuen (Understanding Society) Jennifer Zeiger (ICPSR) Alina DANCIU (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP))
DDI Training Working Group - Train the Trainer Collaboration Workshop, EDDI 2024
- Catherine Yuen (Understanding Society)
- Jennifer Zeiger (ICPSR)
- Alina DANCIU (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP))
09:00 - 17:00
Room: A1.02 The DDI Training Working Group (TG) expects to have several members attending the EDDI 2024 conference in person. With this in mind, we propose having a side in-person workshop after the EDDI conference. We plan to engage attendees on the topics of DDI training standards, requirements, and resources. Attendees are expected to be a part of the DDI Alliance, with some knowledge and/or interest in DDI and community training demands and needs. We also expect to provide attendees with examples of past training - noting successes and improvement areas, and an overview of the currently available training slide decks. Lastly, we will plan to discuss targeted audiences, such as statistical agencies, and brainstorm together the best approaches to training that audience.
ONTOLISST kick-off - Judit Gardos (HUN-REN) Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Tampere University) Alina Danciu (CDSP)
ONTOLISST kick-off
- Judit Gardos (HUN-REN)
- Mari Kleemola (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Tampere University)
- Alina Danciu (CDSP)
09:00 - 12:30
Room: A3.04 The new 2-year ONTOLISST project starts in December 2024. The project idea is a result of discussions in the EDDI2023 conference. ONTOLISST will develop a simplified multilingual ontology and research whether and how NLP tools can help with (semi)automated (meta)data curation. The work will build on social scientific metadata in DDI format in different languages and from varius sources. The project is funded by the first OSCARS Cascading Grant call.
13:30 DDI Marketing Group - Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL) Barry Radler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
DDI Marketing Group
- Jon Johnson (CLOSER, UCL)
- Barry Radler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
13:30 - 17:00
Room: A3.04 The DDI Marketing Group has recently reformed and will meet to work on developing the Marketing Strategy, messaging and the development of Case Studies
Side meeting of the DDI-CDI WG (including the Non-Quantitative Subgroup) - Arofan Gregory (CODATA)
Side meeting of the DDI-CDI WG (including the Non-Quantitative Subgroup)
- Arofan Gregory (CODATA)
13:30 - 17:00
Room: B2.03.2 This meeting will carry forward the work from the Dagstuhl Workshop in October. Topics will include syntax representation of DDI-CDI, tools, documentation, and the integration of the non-quantitative model. Participants who are not already members of the DDI-CDI WG (or the non-quantitative subgroup) are welcome, especially members of the DDI Developer's Group. The meeting will provide an opportunity for people to learn what is going on, as well as being a working meeting on the topics in hand.
Friday, 6 December 2024 ¶

09:00

09:00 - 17:00
Room: E1.14