The CLOSER Data Discoverability team will attend and present a poster at this year's EDDI conference. The conference will take place in Chur, Switzerland from 2-6 December 2024.
About EDDI
EDDI is the annual conference for users of DDI – Data Documentation Initiative -, a metadata specification for the social, economic, and behavioral sciences. It is run by GESIS and the IDSC of IZA under the auspices of the DDI Alliance.
EDDI is designed to provide forum where DDI users from Europe and the world can gather to showcase their work and their progress toward DDI adoption, as well as discuss any questions or challenges they may have about the standard.
EDDI includes presentations, poster sessions, and discussion sessions. The conference closes with a “meet the experts” session in which users will have a chance to lobby for their point of view with representatives from the Technical Committee of the DDI Alliance. The philosophy of EDDI is to be an open, inclusive DDI community-building activity.
About the 2024 conference
The 16th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI 2024) is being hosted by the Swiss Institute for Information Science, at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR).
The Conference will be held in-person over five days in Chur, Switzerland.
Key Note Speakers:
- Sam Oh (Chair, Dublin Core)
- George Lutz (Director, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
For more information about the conference, including the full programme and how to register, please visit the EDDI2024 conference website.
CLOSER’s presence at EDDI 2024
The CLOSER team will present a poster at this year’s EDDI conference – please see the details below:
For researchers and data managers to recognise the value of the DDI standard, and integrate DDI tools into their workflows, a foundational knowledge and understanding of metadata as a first-class citizen in the use and management of data is required.
At CLOSER, we are building on our current online training offer by developing an in-person training course which covers the basics of data, metadata, and the FAIR principles. The course includes several exercises and actionable steps to help participants implement these concepts in their work, providing a solid entry point for DDI training and implementation.
In September 2024, we piloted our training course at two conferences: MethodsCon and the CLOSER conference. In this poster we will reflect on these events, highlighting successful elements, sharing user feedback, and describing how these insights will shape our future training offerings.