[CODATA-international] DDI-CDI: Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse, Workshop 24 March 2023: Registration Open

Wed Dec 14 09:52:20 EST 2022

Workshop organised by the WorldFAIR project as a co-located event to RDA
P20 in Gothenburg and Online

Time: Mon, 24 March 2023, 13:00-16:30 UTC

Location: online and Lindholmen Conference Centre 5 Lindholmspiren, 417 56
Lindholmen, Sweden (colocated side event to the RDA Plenary)

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ddi-cdi-optimising-your-data-description-for-integration-and-reuse-tickets-486696691907
Event Goal and Structure:

The goal of this workshop is to explain the mechanism employed by DDI-CDI
and how it can most easily be leveraged to enhance the reusability of
research data. DDI-CDI is a model-based, platform- and
technology-independent specification designed to supplement the metadata
holdings of data disseminators, archives, and producers. By allowing for an
expression of structural metadata, with references to external controlled
vocabularies and ontologies, and by connecting metadata records intended
for discovery, provenance, and process description, it can act as a
connector format which is independent of domain standards. Typically, it
can be produced in a programmatic fashion from existing metadata records
held in more domain-specific models, although it can also be used as a
stand-alone specification. It supports granular, machine-actionable
description of a wide variety of data, from traditional wide data files to
event/streaming data to key-value (“big”) data and multidimensional cubes.

This workshop will present an overview followed by a series of worked
examples, with an exploration of different types of implementations and
features of the standard in each. The intent is to give more than an
overview, to help participants understand not only what DDI-CDI is intended
to do, but also how it works to complement other popular metadata models
and standards. Different syntax representations of the standards will be
discussed.

DDI has long published metadata standards for the social, economic and
behavioural sciences, which are widely used among data producers and
archives, including those in the CESSDA network, such as the Swedish
National Data Service, the UK Data Archive, Sciences Po, Gesis, Sikt – the
Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research and many
more. DDI-CDI represents an evolution reflecting the growing importance of
cross-disciplinary research and the requirement for data services to
describe new types of data coming from other domains. The result is a
specification which can describe any data in a domain agnostic fashion and
is useful within domains for which other DDI specifications are not
relevant. Because of this domain independent feature, it has become central
to the WorldFAIR project work on the Cross-Domain Interoperability
Framework.

Each part comprises three topics, which will each be structured around a
presentation and discussion.
Target Audience:

This workshop is intended to be useful to both technical and operational
staff working in organisations which produce, archive, integrate, and
disseminate quantitative research data, regardless of domain orientation.
It is intended to address questions about what the practical implementation
of systems supporting the FAIR principles will look like, and will appeal
to infrastructure players who are concerned with broadening and deepening
the reusability of their data holding through enhanced data and provenance
description.
Part One: FAIR Functional Drivers and Requirements

13:00-13:30: The Variable Cascade: concepts, measures and observations.

13:30-14:00: Data Structures: the roles of concepts and variables.

14:00-14:30: Provenance: connecting data through process.

14:30-15:00 UTC: Break
Part Two: System Functions and Supporting Standards

15:00-15:30: Data integration across domains and structures.

15:30-16:00: Process description and alignment with PROV.

16:00-16:30: DDI-CDI as the connection point for a set of related
specifications (CDIF example).
Organisational Note:

The workshop will be recorded and the recordings will be made available via
CODATA Vimeo. If you plan to attend the event virtually, kindly note the
Data Statement for CODATA Zoom at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QdZMRNs9h3Md4ArIiJepR15f3MLOYros/view?usp=sharing

All attendees, onsite and online are expected to comply with the CODATA
Code of Conduct:
https://codata.org/about-codata/codata-policies-and-guidelines/code-of-conduct/

Thanks,

Asha

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*WorldFAIR Project Deliverables:* FAIR Implementation Profiles in WorldFAIR
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7378109>; OneGeochemistry
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7380947>

*Data Science Journal Call for Papers, Data Management Planning
across Disciplines and Infrastructures: *DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 DECEMBER
<https://codata.org/call-for-papers-data-management-planning-across-disciplines-and-infrastructures/>

*African Open Science Platform (AOSP) Regional Nodes: *Call for Expression of
Interest, DEADLINE 15 JANUARY 2023
<https://codata.org/african-open-science-platform-aosp-regional-nodes-call-for-expression-of-interest-deadline-15-january-2023/>

*Call for Sessions, Presentations and Posters: SciDataCon 2023, part of IDW
2023: *deadline 31 March 2023
<https://codata.org/call-for-sessions-presentations-and-posters-scidatacon-2023-part-of-idw-2023/>

*Making Data Work for Research: *CODATA Executive Director speaks about
WorldFAIR, FAIR vocabularies, DRUM and more on Australian radio
<https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/making-data-work-for-research/101671230>

Sept-Oct 2022 publications
<https://codata.org/september-and-october-2022-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/>
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