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CANDDI

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What is CANDDI?

CANDDI is an informal group of data professionals working with Canadian dataNo fundingNo formal governance

 

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What can CANDDI do for us?

CANDDI coordinates the efforts being made to create DDI marked up metadata for Canadian studies.  

CANDDI is to act as a clearing house and keep people informed about what is happening elsewhere

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What can CANDDI do for us?

CANDDI will facilitate the creation of a made in Canada version of the DDI. 

CANDDI will define a subset of DDI well suited for Canadian studies

CANDDI will define standards and best practices for marking up data

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What can CANDDI do for us?

If we are successful, then we will all be able to contribute to the creation of a rich collection of metadata that is easily shareable amongst our community

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What is happening

These types of collaborations are slow to develop – especially with…no fundingno formal governance structure

Things have been gently percolating since 2004We have made progressLots more to do

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What has happened

Several discussions around DDI and Metadata were happening in the community

Chuck proposed rolling this into a discussion forum in early 2004

Yahoo Group created

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What has happened

Face to face meetings held in:Montreal – Train the trainers (March)Kingston - DLI (April)Wisconsin - IASSIST (May)

RDC’s partner to look at DDI and Nesstar Looking at integrating metadata during

creation of survey vs. retro-fiting

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What happened next

Discussions happened on-line and off-line Some expressions of interest were made Still some concerns being raised about fully

understanding what DDI was People couldn’t – see it, touch it, play with it… How does it work with our data Needed something more concrete before we

move forward…

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Getting dirty with Metadata

People were already playing with markup Get a subset of working group 2

The Canadian DDI Tag Working GroupGet something on paperSomething people can see, touch and play

withHas value that we can build on

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Getting dirty with Metadata

DINO put a group together in December 2004Meetings in OttawaShared knowledgeDiscussed coordination

Training in Kingston

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What’s next from CAPDU 2005

Put in the Steering group? Should this be formal? Budget?

Start establishing the working groups Publish the suggested set of tags Get some feedback Education? Set timelines?

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CANDDI - Wisconsin

On Friday, May 28, 2004 the members of CANDDI who attended IASSIST met to discuss next steps in implementing a Canadian DDI solution.

Nineteen of the current list of CANDDI members were in attendance.

A healthy discussion led to the recommendation to create five working groups.

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CANDDI –working group 1

Logistics / Coordinating-Steering Group: identify parallel activities occurring in the implementation of DDI

in Canada; from a project management standpoint identify ways of coordinating parallel DDI projects responsible for coordinating the activities of the other

four working groups recommend to the CANDDI membership a more formal

organizational model for CANDDI and its relationships with other organizations, for example, the DLI EAC.

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Working Group 1

The Logistics/Steering group is:

Dan Duda – Memorial

Stefano Biondo – Laval

Bernie Gloyne – DLI

Mike Sivyer – DLI

Ernie Boyko – Carleton

Bo Wandschneider – Guelph

Chuck Humphrey – Alberta

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CANDDI – working group 2

The Canadian DDI Tag Working Group: responsible for selecting an appropriate set of

DDI tags for Canadian data produce a document describing these tags and

annotating their use recommend this document to the CANDDI

membership for comment and revision responsible for the care of this document.

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Working Group 2

The Tag Working Group will be comprised of the following people:Michelle Edwards - Chair - Guelph DRCMarie Josee  Bourgeois – DLI Irene Wong - RDC AlbertaJane Fry - Carleton Data Centre

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CANDDI – working group 3

Control Vocabulary / Thesaurus Coordination Working Group: responsible for identifying and recommending control

vocabularies including appropriate labels for variable groupings vet their findings with the CANDDI membership responsible for the care of the control vocabularies

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CANDDI- working group 4

Quality Control: responsible for articulating best practices and

processes involved in the production of accurate and consistent DDI-compliant documentation

responsible for the care of the documentation of these practices and processes.

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CANDDI – working group 5

Education / Training: responsible for training programs for creators

of data documentation, users of DDI-compliant documentation, and intermediaries supporting end-users

promoting their training program for use with existing training conducted by DLI and other appropriateorganizations.

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What is Next?

More from Tag Working Group Discussions/Feedback at meetings across

country Invitation to join other working groups BLOG

http://blogs.uoguelph.ca/canddi/blog/

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CANDDI

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