[CODATA-international] DDI Alliance and CODATA collaboration at Schloss Dagstuhl

Wed Apr 27 12:07:20 EDT 2022

Workshops held at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics
<https://www.dagstuhl.de/> have been an important activity for the DDI
Alliance <https://ddialliance.org/> and many of its partner and member
organizations over the years. Since 2018, CODATA <https://codata.org/> has
collaborated closely on a series of workshops looking at cross-domain
interoperability based on DDI and other metadata standards.

Since 2007, members of the DDI community have organized twenty-eight
workshops on different topics related to DDI and metadata, with a total of
548 participants over that time (see detailed list of workshops
<https://ddialliance.org/events/events-at-schloss-dagstuhl-%E2%80%93-leibniz-center-for-informatics>).
These workshops have made a critical contribution to the DDI Alliance’s
work program including the development of new versions of the
specification, training activities, and coordination with relevant
standards bodies.

More recently, the workshops have explored issues that are fundamental to
the objectives and methodology of the CODATA Decadal Programme ‘Making Data
Work for Global Grand Challenges
<https://codata.org/initiatives/decadal-programme2/>’. This includes
identifying ways of improving the interoperability of metadata standards
and testing solutions against real-world case studies. DDI standards have
played a significant role in this work and the development of DDI Cross
Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) represents an important step forward.

Always, in keeping with the mission of Schloss Dagstuhl
<https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/about-dagstuhl/>, these events have focused on
the forward-looking aspects of DDI specifications from a computer science
perspective, whether they addressed development, support, implementation,
or inter-standards collaboration. Dagstuhl is a unique facility, providing
an immersive environment that enables intensive and productive work. This
has helped create a network of DDI users and metadata experts which is the
excellent basis of further cooperation and exchange beyond the workshops in
Dagstuhl. Furthermore, workshops have historically resulted from a
partnership between several organizations, with GESIS
<https://www.gesis.org/en/home> – Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences, the DDI Alliance, and CODATA being the most important of these.
All have provided not only their expertise to the workshops, but financial
resources as well, to facilitate travel and similar expenses for
participants.

The current focus is on the relationship between DDI specifications and the
emerging set of FAIR-enabling standards and specifications. At the heart of
the European Commission-funded WorldFAIR project are eleven domain and
cross-domain case studies: these will form an important part of the
workshop activity in the near-term and are test cases for the emerging
cross-domain interoperability framework. While DDI-CDI is the most obvious
point of connection, DDI Lifecycle
<https://ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.3/> and DDI Codebook
<https://ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.5/> also fit into
this picture as exemplary domain standards. Other DDI Alliance
specifications such as XKOS
<https://ddialliance.org/Specification/RDF/XKOS> (Extended
Knowledge Organization System) and SDTL
<https://ddialliance.org/products/sdtl/1.0> (Structured Data Transformation
Language) are also relevant.

Due to COVID, many Dagstuhl seminars have been postponed, and this year the
DDI-CODATA team has only been able to confirm a single week (August
28-September 2) because of scheduling requirements at Schloss Dagstuhl. We
will return to having two workshops from 2023, and dates have been approved
for the weeks September 24-29 and October 1-6. The working titles are ‘Defining
a core metadata framework for cross-domain data sharing and reuse
<https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=23403>’ and ‘DDI-CDI:
Realising interoperable data services in the metadata ecosystem
<https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=23393>’
respectively.

The preliminary description
<https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Interoperability-for-Cross-Domain-Research-Dagstuhl-Workshop.pdf>of
the 2022 workshop on ‘Interoperability for Cross-Domain Research:
Machine-Actionability & Scalability’
<https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=22353> is
currently being used to recruit experts for the
workshop.

We look forward to continuing what has been a fruitful collaboration, and
will provide information regarding our planning activities in reports like
this one moving forward. Schloss Dagstuhl has always provided a unique and
highly effective venue for us to focus on forward-looking topics related to
the DDI specifications, and we hope that this tradition will continue into
the future.

*The Dagstuhl Organizing Team:*

   - Arofan Gregory, CODATA and DDI.
   - Hilde Orten, DDI and SIKT.
   - Joachim Wackerow.
   - Simon Cox, CODATA and CSIRO.
   - Simon Hodson, CODATA and DDI.
   - Steve McEachern, CODATA and DDI and ANU

Thanks,
Asha

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