NADDI 2015 - North American Data Documentation Initiative - The Premier Data Documentation Conference

NADDI 2015 Program

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

		TRAINING SESSIONS
7:30	8:30	Registration & Packet Pick-up (See electronic kiosk in Pyle Center lobby for location.)
8:15	9:00	Pastries, Fruit, Coffee, Networking
9:00	12:00	WED - MORNING WORKSHOP - Room B
9:00	12:00	Discover the Power of DDI Metadata This workshop is appropriate for anyone who is responsible for managing microdata of individuals or organizations and wondered how metadata could streamline their research. Instructor: Jane Fry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
12:00	13:30	Lunch - On Your Own
13:30	16:30	WED - AFTERNOON WORKSHOP - Room B
13:30	16:30	Open Data and Metadata Management This workshop focuses on the practical packaging of open data and metadata, in particular for statistical datasets. Participants will learn about the benefits of complementing ASCII text data files with DDI-XML for the publication, sharing, and long term preservation of data, and how, when combined with relevant scripts and programs, such approach provides a powerful packaging system for the effective delivery of open data. Instructors: Andrew De Carlo & Arofan Gregory, Metadata Technology North America, Inc.
18:00		No-Host Dinner (Location TBD)

Thursday, April 9, 2015

		MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 1
8:00	8:30	Registration & Packet Pick-up (See electronic kiosk in Pyle Center lobby for location.)
8:00	8:30	Pastries, Fruit, Coffee, Networking
		THURS - PYLE CENTER - Room A
8:45	9:00	Introduction: Dr. Barry Radler Institute on Aging, UW-Madison Welcome: Dr. Marsha Mailick Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison
9:00	10:00	Keynote Address: From 'Data Discoverability' to 'Data Navigability' Dr. Tito Castillo, Founder & Managing Director, Xperimint Ltd
		THURS - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room A	THURS - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room B
10:15	10:45	Data Capture: Tracking Data from Source to Results Wendy L. Thomas, Minnesota Population Center	University Data Policies and Data Services Kristin Briney, UW-Milwaukee
10:45	11:45	International Clinical Research Collaborations using DDI Lifecycle: CHARM's Growing Pains David K. Johnson, University of Kansas	Research Data Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Brianna Marshall, Trisha Adamus, & Elliott Shuppy; UW-Madison
12:00	13:30	Lunch - On Your Own
		THURS - PYLE CENTER - Room A
13:30	14:00	Supporting Extended Citations in DDI4 Larry Hoyle and Mary Vardigan, Institute for Policy & Social Research and ICPSR
14:00	14:30	Data Discoverability in Public Health Arofan Gregory, Tito Castillo, Samuel Moore, Brian Hole, Christiana McMahon, Spiros Denaxas, Veerle Van Den Eyden, Herve' L'Hours, Lucy Bell, Jack Kneeshaw, Matthew Woollard, Chifundo Kanjala, Gareth Knight, & Basia Zaba; Open Data Foundation
14:30	15:00	Break - Sodas, Snacks
		THURS - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room A	THURS - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room B
15:00	15:30	Overviewing the Translating Research in Elder Care Monitoring System (TMS) Data Platform James M. Doiron, Health Research Data Repository, University of Alberta; Andrew DeCarlo, Metadata Technologies North America, Inc.; Shane McChesney, Nooro Online Research	Data Management Module: a New Extension for the Rogatus System Ingo Barkow, DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research
15:30	16:00		Documenting Spreadsheets with Colectica for Excel Dan Smith, Colectica
		THURS - PYLE CENTER ALUMNI LOUNGE (1st Floor Overlooking Lake Mendota)
17:00	18:00	Cash Bar
18:00	20:00	Dinner

Friday, April 10, 2015

		MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 2
8:00	9:00	Pastries, Fruit, Coffee, Networking - Pyle Center
		FRI - PYLE CENTER Room A
9:00	10:00	Plenary Session: Discovering Standards Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate in the School of Library & Information Studies at the UW-Madison
10:15	11:15	A Next Generation, Reusable, Web-based Data Catalog Jeremy Iverson, Colectica; and Barry Radler, Institute on Aging, UW-Madison
		FRI - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room A	FRI - CONCURRENT SESSION - Room B
11:15	11:45	Starting in the Middle: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study & DDI Carol Lynn Roan, UW-Madison	Crowdsourcing DDI Development: New Features from the CED2AR Project Benjamin Perry, Venkata Kambhampaty, Kyle Brumsted, Lars Vilhuber, & William C. Block; Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research
12:00	13:30	Hosted Lunch at the Pyle Center
13:30	14:00	Documenting the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging Carol Franz, University of California-San Diego	An Open Source, DDI-Based Data Curation System for Social Science Data Jeremy Iverson, Colectica
14:00	14:30	First Results from the Survey on Metadata Management in the Educational Sciences Ingo Barkow, DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research	Connecting the Dots with DDI Michelle Edwards, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
14:30	15:00	Break - Sodas, Snacks
		FRI - PYLE CENTER - Room A
15:00	15:30	DDI Moving Forward: Update, Feedback, and Suggestions for the Project The next generation of the DDI will use unified modelling language to simplify the DDI standard, broaden its focus to new research domains, and make it expressible in technologies beyond XML.
15:30	16:00	Marketing and Generating Partnerships Group Discussion A conversation with the DDI Marketing and Partnerships group about tapping into User Networks & developing a more formal mechanism to gauge user needs, frustrations, challenges.
16:00	16:30	Plenary Session: Conference Wrap-Up and Future of NADDI