WELCOME TO TOWN

7:00pm

Informal get-together at The Dubliner, 4 F St NW

TRAINING SESSIONS
BLS Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center

8:45am

9:00am

Registration & Packet Pick-up

9:00am

12:00pm

MORNING WORKSHOP

Longitudinal research center in a box: Using DDI to enhance the mission of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center and the Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS) study

Location: Conference Room 7

This seminar provides a gentle introduction to the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata standards for biomedical research data. Two NIA funded program projects, UCD ADC and MIDUS, applied DDI center-wide to document linked data and organize complex distributed data collection processes. We review why/how the application of DDI enhances research productivity and provide real-world examples how these research projects benefit from a technological standard that provides a basis for richly-structured metadata. We will also discuss some of the tools each center has created to implement DDI in a longitudinal health research context.

Instructor: David K. Johnson, UC Davis Alzheimer Disease Center, Barry Radler, University of Wisconsin

12:00pm

1:30pm

Lunch - On Your Own - See options listed in your information packet

1:30pm

4:30pm

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

Document Questionnaires and Datasets with DDI: A Hands-On Introduction with Colectica

Location: Conference Room 7

This workshop offers a hands-on, practical approach to creating and documenting both surveys and datasets with DDI and Colectica. Participants will build and field a DDI-driven survey using their own questions or samples provided in the workshop. They will then ingest, annotate, and publish DDI dataset descriptions using the collected survey data.

Questionnaire Design

Attendees may optionally bring their own Windows laptops to participate in the hands-on exercises.

Instructors: Jeremy Iverson and Dan Smith, Colectica

7:00pm

Informal get-together dinner at Kelly's Irish Times, 14 F St NW

MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 1

BLS Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center

8:00am

4:00pm

Registration, Packet Pick-up & Information

8:00am

9:00am

Hosted Continental Breakfast and Networking

WELCOME AND KEYNOTE PANEL

9:00am

9:10am

Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speakers:

Jared Lyle, Director, DDI Alliance
Adam Safir, Division Chief of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, BLS

9:10am

10:30am

Keynote Panel:

John M. Abowd, Associate Director for Research and Methodology & Chief Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau; Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Robert M. Groves, Executive Vice President and Provost,Georgetown University; Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2012

John H. Thompson, Executive Director, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS); Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 2013-2017; CEO, NORC at the University of Chicago, 2008-2013

Maggie Levenstein, Director, ICPSR (Moderator)

MORNING SESSIONS

10:30am

11:00am

Break - beverages and snacks provided

11:00am

12:30pm

Implementing DDI to Document the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Reginald Noel, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Using DDI to drive data governance in the 21st century Claire Stent, Statistics New Zealand

Moving from Compliance to Reproducibility: Metadata for Supplementary Research Collections

Courtney Butler and Brett Currier, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Leveraging metadata, DDI + other standards to implement data as a service at Statistics Canada

Kathryn Stevenson, Statistics Canada
Farrah Sanjari, Statistics Canada

Session Chair: Dan Smith, Colectica

12:30pm

1:30pm

Hosted lunch and Poster Session - BLS Conference Center

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:30pm

2:45pm

Panel: Work to develop common standards for metadata across federal statistical agencies

Moderator: Lars Vilhuber, Executive Director, Labor Dynamics Institute, Cornell University

Panelists:

• Barbara Downs, Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) Program, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
• Maggie Levenstein, ICPSR
• Jared Lyle, ICPSR
• Catherine Fitch, Associate Director, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

2:45pm

3:15pm

Break - beverages and snacks

3:15pm

4:15pm

Documenting and Publishing Statistical Data with Colectica and DDI

Jeremy Iverson, Colectica

Blaise and Colectica - Building on Metadata Standards

Dan Smith, Colectica

Using DDI to build open source solutions for curation and dissemination of microdata: World Bank Tools and experience

Matthew Welch, The World Bank

Session Chair: Ron Nakao, Stanford

7:00pm

Banquet - Location TBA

MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 2

BLS Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center

8:00am

9:00am

Registration, Packet Pick-up and Information

Coffee and Networking

MORNING SESSIONS

9:00am

10:30am

OpenCBA - a step towards management metadata and paradata

Ingo Barkow, University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur

Ricochet: Developing standards around biomedical reproducibility

Cynthia Vitale, Ripeta

Discovering and using administrative data

Claire Stent, Statistics New Zealand

Session Chair: Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

10:30am

11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am

12:30pm

Improving Roper@Cornell: DDI as a foundation

Kathleen Weldon, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Bill Block, CISER

Enhancing ICPSR metadata with DDI-Lifecycle

Sanda Ionescu, ICPSR, University of Michigan
Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

A role for DDI in management of data as a record

Claire Stent, Statistics New Zealand

C2Metadata: Continuous Capture of Metadata

Jeremy Iverson, Colectica

Session Chair: Bill Block, Cornell

12:30pm

1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

2:30pm

DDI: Where we've been, where we're going

Wendy Thomas, Minnesota Population Center

A Sample Codebook in DDI4 XML

Larry Hoyle, University of Kansas

The DDI4 Collections Pattern

Dan Gillman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Session Chair: Barry Radler, University of Wisconsin

2:30pm

3:00pm

DDI Driven Evaluation

Barry Radler, University of Wisconsin

Wrap Up