North American DDI Conference

About

Conference Sponsors

As preservation of research data becomes a more prominent issue, the need for locating and preserving associated information about the data, metadata, in some structured form follows.
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI - http://www.ddialliance.org ) "is an effort to create an international standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Expressed in XML, the DDI metadata specification now supports the entire research data life cycle. DDI metadata accompanies and enables data conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, analysis, repurposing, and archiving."

The Conference

The North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) is an opportunity for those using DDI and those interested in learning more about it to come together and learn from each other. Patterned after the successful European DDI conference (EDDI -- http://www.eddi-conferences.eu ) NADDI will be a two day conference with invited and contributed presentations. Training sessions will follow the conference. One focus of the first year's conference will be on the use of DDI by individual research teams through the data lifecycle. Other themes will emerge as we develop the conference agenda.