Dec 1 – 5, 2025
ELTE Centre for Social Sciences (Research Documentation Centre)
Europe/Budapest timezone
Social Media Hashtag #EDDI2025

An introduction to DDI for small organisations

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The purpose of this all day meeting is to provide an overview for organisations such as archives and research institutes who have restricted budgets or limited personnel but would like to provide or know more about how to provide access to data using the DDI standard. 

Monday 1 December

08:30 Registration and Coffee

09:00 Welcome & Introduction to DDI

  • Speaker: Alina Danciu (CDSP, Sciences Po)

09:30 Case studies from existing users

  • Running an Archive in Slovenia
    • Speaker: Maja Dolinar (Slovenian Social Science Data Archives)
  • Supporting the development of Archives in Europe
    • Speaker: Alen Vodopijevec (CESSDA)

10:30 Coffee

10:45 Case studies from existing users (continued)

  • Establishing a new archive 
    • Speaker: Marijana Glavica (CROSSDA) 
  • Supporting Research Visibility
    • Speaker:Judit Gardos (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

11:45 Questions and discussion

12:30 Lunch

13:15  DDI Alliance - supporting an Open Metadata Standard

  • Developing and maintaining Metadata Standards
    • Speaker: Jared Lyle  (DDI Alliance)
  • Supporting Users of of DDI
    • Speakers: DDI Alliance Training Group: Chloé Hertrich (Sciences Po), Catherine Yuen (University of Essex)

14:00 Tools and software to support DDI

  • NADA
    • Speaker: Julie Lenoir (Progedo, CNRS)
  • Dataverse
    • Lucie Marie (CDSP, SciencesPo)
  • Using R at the Romanian Data Archive
    • Speaker: Adrian Dusa (University of Bucharest)
  • Open Data Format with Stata, R & Python (Multiplatform Distribution powered by DDI-Codebook at low cost)
    • Speaker: Knut Wenzig (DiW Berlin / SOEP)
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16:00 Finish