<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Registration is now open for the next CODATA / DDI Alliance free webinar: ‘Metadata Uplift – PDF/Excel to Structured DDI Documentation’!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Webinar: Mon 9 May 2022, 14:00 – 15:30 UTC</b><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Info and registration: </b><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/metadata-uplift-pdf-excel-to-structured-ddi-documentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/metadata-uplift-pdf-excel-to-structured-ddi-documentation/</a><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> </b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">The second webinar in the 2022 CODATA-DDI Alliance webinar series will take place on 9 May 2022 on the topic ‘Metadata Uplift – PDF/Excel to Structured DDI Documentation’.  Free registration is now open!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Many organizations document their data using formats such as PDF and Excel. While useful to readers, the metadata which makes up the core ‘documentation’ is not fully machine-actionable. This webinar explores the ways in which organizations can take existing data documentation in typical formats and produce structured, machine-actionable XML metadata according to the DDI Codebook (DDI-C) and DDI Lifecycle (DDI-L) standards. The goal of the session is to introduce some common approaches based on existing tools and the real-world experience of DDI users who have faced and met this challenge.  Speakers will be confirmed shortly.  There will be time for questions and answers with our panel of expert speakers.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">While most common in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences, the DDI standards are also used in public health, official statistics, and in other domains where populations are being observed. The forthcoming DDI Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) will also be briefly introduced, as a means of exposing SBE data to other domains for reuse, building on the foundations of structured metadata in DDI-C and DDI-L.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">For more information and to register, please visit:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/metadata-uplift-pdf-excel-to-structured-ddi-documentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/metadata-uplift-pdf-excel-to-structured-ddi-documentation/  </a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you on 9 May!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Asha</p><div><br></div>--<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">___________________________<br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>Call for Presentations and Posters: SciDataCon/IDW 2022:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/call-for-presentations-and-posters-scidatacon-2022-part-of-international-data-week-data-to-improve-our-world/" target="_blank">deadline 25 April 2022</a></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>International Data Week 2022:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/onsite-registration-for-international-data-week-2022-is-now-open-2/" target="_blank">on-site and virtual registration open!</a></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><a href="https://codata.org/march-2022-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank">March 2022 publications</a> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a></div></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">join the CODATA International News list</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Follow us on social media! </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CODATANews" target="_blank">Twitter</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/codata.org/" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hodson-b3711a11/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/codatainternational/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>  <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>