[CODATA-international] Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse: DDI Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) workshop 24 March – recording and presentations now available

Tue Apr 4 00:12:13 EDT 2023

*Apologies for another message; the last one was with a wrong subject*

The goal of the DDI-Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI
<https://ddialliance.org/Specification/ddi-cdi>) workshop on 24 March 2023
was to explain the mechanism employed by DDI-CDI and how it can most easily
be leveraged to enhance the reusability of research data. Sixty colleagues
attended this hybrid workshop on 24 March, organised alongside Research
Data Alliance Plenary 20, and the slides and recording are now available
for those who would like to catch up with – or revisit – the material
presented on the day.

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, DDI-CDI 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.

At the workshop, the DDI-CDI team presented an overview followed by a
series of worked examples, with an exploration of different types of
implementations and features of the standard in each, 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 were 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 <https://worldfair-project.eu/> project work on the
Cross-Domain
Interoperability Framework
<https://worldfair-project.eu/cross-domain-interoperability-framework/>.

The workshop  <https://vimeo.com/user91439529/ddi-cdi-20230324>recording is
available here <https://vimeo.com/user91439529/ddi-cdi-20230324>, and the
slides are available below:

– DDI-CDI: Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse,
Arofan Gregory
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tyeVRUVs5u1J5I4x--oFI5iv2P2Jz54N/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117306179097581977298&rtpof=true&sd=true>

– DDI-CDI Specification Model-Driven Development, Joachim Wackerow
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wf7UNwSadENbf35ZTYEhDLbb08ejnoLg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117306179097581977298&rtpof=true&sd=true>

– DDI-CDI at UK Data Service, Darren Bell and Deirdre Lungley
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FEbcT7mTC8zIdo9q1397OVT-ZwskKRqJEA_Z03AAkT8/edit?usp=sharing>

– Use case: DDI-CDI and process workflow (pt. 1), Hilde Orten
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/122EufOXUYhbM49ewPeg2b3OBjnXwuXW1/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117306179097581977298&rtpof=true&sd=true>

– Use case: DDI-CDI and process workflow (pt. 2), Benjamin Beuster
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X2PJegpL50le4ep4f8fbQau4PHlIzeRJ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117306179097581977298&rtpof=true&sd=true>

Find out more about DDI-CDI here:
https://ddialliance.org/Specification/ddi-cdi

Thanks,

Asha
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*The WorldFAIR Project's Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework Workshop,
colocated at the RDA Plenary: *presentations and recordings now available
<https://worldfair-project.eu/2023/03/22/the-worldfair-projects-cross-domain-interoperability-framework-2/>

*New WorldFAIR Project Deliverables!* Mapping Report: Cultural Heritage
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Data Priority Areas Roadmap <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7682399>

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