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Save the Dates + Registration: Virtual 2024 DDI Annual Meetings

Submitted by lyle on Thu, 2024-03-14 23:54
Dear DDI Members and Community Participants,

We're excited to invite you to the virtual Annual Meeting of the Scientific Community on May 21, 2024 (9-11am EDT) and the virtual Annual Meeting of Members on June 5, 2024 (9-11am EDT).  

 
Why Attend?
  • Discover the latest DDI advancements and results from the past year.
  • Engage in thoughtful discussions, providing your unique feedback and perspectives.
  • Shape the strategic direction and priorities for the upcoming year.
Annual Meeting of the Scientific Community
  • Date & Time: May 21, 2024 (9-11am EDT)
  • Focus: Review and discuss the activities and accomplishments of the Scientific Board/Community and discuss the future Scientific Work Plan.
  • Register Now
Annual Meeting of Members
  • Date & Time: June 5, 2024 (9-11am EDT)
  • Focus: Review and discuss Alliance and Executive Board activities, and review and approve the DDI Alliance Strategic Plan for 2024-2027.
  • Register Now

Additional Information:

  • Prep Materials: Full agendas and more details will be shared ahead of the meetings.
  • Past Meetings: For a look back at previous accomplishments and discussions, visit https://ddialliance.org/annual-meetings.
We're looking forward to your participation and insights!    

DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 Overview Presentation Recording

Submitted by lyle on Thu, 2024-03-07 15:56

The presentation portion of the 28 February 2024 DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 Question and Answer session is now available on the DDI Alliance YouTube channel, including a link to the presentation slides: https://youtu.be/HaKyuDIj5P8.

DDI Questions and Questionnaires Working Group first meeting: 10 April 2024

Submitted by lyle on Thu, 2024-02-29 15:18

Do you work with questions and/or questionnaires? If so, you may be interested in being part of a new DDI Questionnaire/Question Working Group. 

The first meeting will take place on 10th April 2024 in Paris as a side meeting of COSMOS. Further details can be found on the COSMOS website. 

Please let us know if you are interested and would like to attend the meeting by 22nd March. 

 

Many thanks, 

Hayley. 

Dr Hayley Mills (she/her)
CLOSER Senior Metadata Officer  
UCL Social Research Institute | University College London 
h [dot] mills [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk

DDI Training Materials -- Now Available in French

Submitted by lyle on Tue, 2024-01-30 15:16

To meet the training needs of the French-speaking community, the DDI Training Working Group has translated several training materials that are now available on the DDI Alliance website.

Translating DDI documentation training materials

The Centre for Sociopolitical Data (CDSP) has been participating for several years in the coordination of the DDI Training Working Group, whose mission is to promote the DDI data documentation standard and provide training in its use. 

Initiated by the two co-chairs of the TWG (Alina Danciu and Hayley Mills), the coordination of this project was ensured by Lucie Marie (CDSP) in collaboration with other engineers from the CDSP and with the engineers from IR* Progedo.

The translations, validated by the DDI Alliance Scientific Advisory Board, are now available on the DDI Alliance website and archived on Zenodo .

Resources available

  • DDI Training Group (2023) “Les bases de DDI: Qu'est-ce que les métadonnées?” ". Zenodo, September 14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8344046.
  • DDI Training Group (2023) ”Principes fondamentaux : Qu'est-ce que DDI?". Zenodo, September 14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8344330.
  • DDI Training Group (2023) “DDI Codebook, DDI Lifecycle, et DDI Cross Domain Integration : cas d'usage et objectifs”. Zenodo, September 14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8344316.

DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 -- Question and Answer session

Submitted by lyle on Fri, 2024-01-19 16:51

The DDI Alliance Technical Committee invite you to a webinar presenting the recently released DDI-Lifecycle 4.0 Beta 1 and the opportunity to ask questions.

Details of the beta release are available at: https://ddialliance.org/announcement/ddi-lifecycle-40-beta-announcement

Questions and Questionnaires - New DDI Working Group

Submitted by lyle on Thu, 2024-01-18 09:57
Do you work with DDI questions and/or Questionnaires? If so, you may be interested in being part of a new DDI Questionnaire/Question Working Group. 
 
The parameters and mandate need to be discussed and agreed with members, as well as input from the SB, but could include:
  • Development of best practice for implementation
  • Development of best practice for interoperability
  • Provide ideas for revisions, extensions, and feed into future versions of DDI
Please let us know if you, or someone else from your organisation, would be interested in being part of this WG by 1st February. We will then set up an initial meeting to discuss remit and chairs. 
 
Many thanks, 
Hayley
 
Dr Hayley Mills (she/her)
CLOSER Senior Metadata Officer  
<h.mills [at] ucl.ac.uk>

DDI Alliance Secretariat Offices Closed 23 December to 2 January

Submitted by lyle on Fri, 2023-12-22 15:55

The DDI Alliance Secretariat offices will be closed from December 23rd to Jan 2nd for the holiday break. Our online resources remain open 24/7 at http://ddialliance.org.

Happy Holidays!

DDI Lifecycle - 4.0 beta announcement

Submitted by lyle on Fri, 2023-12-22 15:52

Hello DDI Community,

The Technical Committee is happy to announce the availability of a beta version of DDI Lifecycle 4.0.

DDI Lifecycle 4.0 is managed using a Model First development approach. Content additions and changes are added to the model and the serialization formats are automatically generated. The metadata content of DDI 3.3 has been converted into the new 4.0 model.

The ddi-lifecycle-4.0-beta.1.zip package includes:

  • schema.xsd - XML Schema
  • jsonSchema.json - JSON Schema
  • ddi4.xmi - OMG's UML XMI 2.5
  • ddi4.owl - RDF OWL (closed with restrictions)
  • ddi4.owl.ttl - RDF OWL (open)
  • ddi4.shex - ShEx
  • ddi4.shacl- SHACL

Other formats are also available but are not included in the official release. The beta package is available at: https://github.com/ddialliance/ddimodel/releases

The documentation for DDI Lifecycle 4.0 is also autogenerated from the model, and can be viewed at: https://ddialliance.github.io/ddimodel-web/

We are looking for feedback on the community's preference between the different OWL serializations and general comments about the XML and JSON. One version of the OWL models restrictions, the other is open and uses RDF shape languages to define rules. Ordering of lists in the OWL is handled using normal predicate relations combined with the addition of enumerable slots with index positions to keep the vocabularies in OWL-DL, we would like to hear the community's feedback on this approach to ordering as shown in the Sequence item type.

You can provide questions and comments back using the github issues with a free github account at: https://github.com/ddialliance/ddimodel/issues

Thank you,

DDI Technical Committee

DDI Developers virtual meeting 2024-01-19 10:00 CET

Submitted by lyle on Fri, 2023-12-22 15:38

Hi!

On January 19th we plan to have a virtual developers meeting to go through current status on ongoing projects and talk about DDI related topics.
 
Date: 2024-01-19
Time: 10:00 CET
Zoom-link: contact olof.olsson[at]snd.gu.se


The suggestion for the agenda is:

  •     DDI-CDI development and preview of the current state of the model
  •     DDI projects
  •         Nectar Publisher
    Presentation of the end user focused client side tool to document datasets
  •         Other projects
  •     Next hackathon

Feel free to add to the agenda with your own topics.

To join the meeting contact olof.olsson[at]snd.gu.se to get an invite via Zoom.


Happy holidays!