[InetBib] DDI Training Workshop at Dagstuhl organized by GESIS

["Wackerow, Joachim" <Joachim.Wackerow@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Facilitating Process and Metadata-Driven Automation in the Social, Economic, 
and Behavioural Sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
October 21-25, 2013
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany
Course Instructors:
Arofan Gregory (ODaF - Open Data Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Wendy L. Thomas (MPC - Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, 
Germany)
Description of the workshop
This training workshop will provide an introduction to using the Data 
Documentation Initiative (DDI)<http://www.ddialliance.org/what> standard to 
enable many of the processes common to the social, behavioural, and economic 
sciences, from the conceptualization of surveys through data collection, 
processing, analysis, and dissemination. The focus of the workshop will be on 
the "Lifecycle" branch of DDI, version 
3.2<http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.2/>, which 
provides a detailed model of the metadata needed to support both human-driven 
and automated processing. The workshop will be organized in a task-oriented 
manner, with participants actively documenting real-world use cases in order to 
learn how best to employ the DDI model and associated technology. The use cases 
produced will be published as the final output of the workshop, as a resource 
to the broader DDI community. Participants are encouraged to bring their own 
organizational use cases.
The workshop is aimed at data producers, managers, and users who are not 
already experts in the DDI, or who wish to become more familiar with the latest 
version of the standard (version 3.2). There will also be information provided 
about the envisioned shift in future versions of DDI Lifecycle to a model-based 
approach - the style of modeling and some of the standard implementation 
syntaxes (RDF and XML) will be covered. The workshop will include hands-on 
exercises and work within break-out groups on specific use cases, but will be 
accessible to participants with all levels of technical expertise.
Please have a look at the workshop page for further details, practical 
information<http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/ddi-2013/information/>,
 and registration:
http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/ddi-2013/

Best regards,
Joachim Wackerow

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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Department: Monitoring Society and Social Change
Team: Social Science Metadata Standards
Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262
Fax: +49 (0)621 1246 100
E-mail: joachim.wackerow@xxxxxxxxx
www.gesis.org



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