Welcome to ODaF Europe 2009

International Data Service Center Institute for the Study of Labor Bonn, Germany April 2nd-3rd 2009

Agenda • Day 1

– ODaF overview / activities – Meeting theme – Presentations • IZA, ongoing projects, enhanced publications, SDMX

• Day 2

– Discussions – Actions / Next Steps [email protected]

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The Open Data Foundation

Overview

Why ODaF?

• US based non-profit organization established in 2006 • Issues – Data quality, accessibility, discoverability is highly dependent on quality of metadata / documentation – Standards & technology are available, willingness is there – Need coordinated efforts, tools, technology expertise, best practices • ODaF umbrella to bring together stakeholders and technology experts – Complement existing initiatives – Operates at national and international levels (global standards and tools) – Partners: NSO, data archives, RDC, academic/research, international organizations, technology vendors • Overall objective (impact): – Better data to support evidence based policy and project monitoring – Data measures the health of nations, crucial given economical climate and population growth estimates [email protected]

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Mission

• Foster the understanding of data and metadata management standards and technologies; • Provide technological expertise to agencies in their respective area of activity • Fill the information technology gaps by supporting the development of open source tools • Play a central role in networking together individuals and organizations that often work in isolation rather than try to solve common challenges together • Promote the production of open data – Well documented, discoverable, accessible for analysis, respect statistical principles / legislation (privacy) [email protected]

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Activities

• Support standards – DDI, SDMX, and others – Best practices • Networking – Virtual, conference participation, event organization, IASSIST sponsor • Projects – NORC Virtual DE, – Tools development (DExT, DDI-TP, SDMX Browser, etc.) • Infrastructure – Open source repository, DDI Tools, DDI Mantis • References – Paper, trainings, presentation [email protected]

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Who is ODaF

• Directors – Ernie Boyko – Past President of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) – Rune Gloersen - Head of Information Technology, Statistics Norway – Robert Glushko, PhD - Member of the OASIS Board of Directors, and the founder and leader of Berkeley's Center for Document Engineering • Advisors • Management Team – Arofan Gregory – Rob Grim – Pascal Heus – Jostein Ryssevik (position open) • 60+ individual members (mailing list) – Membership is at individual level (free) – Sponsored by other member [email protected]

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Who is ODaF

• Board o Advisors – Nikos Askitas - Institute for the Study of Labour, Germany – Sandra Cannon - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System – Gilles Collette- Visual Communications, Pan-American Health Organization (WHO) – Daniel Gillman - US Bureau of Labor Statistics – Eduardo Gutentag - Member of the the OASIS Board of Directors – Paul Johanis - Statistics Canada (retired) – Graeme Oakley - Australian Bureau of Statistics – Dr. Andrew Nelson - Joint Research Centre of the European Commission – Ken Miller- UK Data Archive / Economic and Social Data Service – Duane Nickull- Chair, OASIS SOA Reference Architecture TC – Juraj Riecan - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) – Gerard Salou - European Central Bank – Professor Bo Sundgren, Ph.D - Statistics Sweden – Wendy Thomas - Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota – Wendy Watkins - Data Centre Coordinator, Maps, Data and Government Information Centre, Carleton University Library [email protected]

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ODaF and XML standards

• Need a collection of standards • Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) – survey / administrative microdata • Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange standard (SDMX) – aggregated data / time series • ISO/IEC 11179 – concept management and semantic modeling • ISO 19115 – Geographical metadata • METS – packaging/archiving of digital objects • PREMIS – Archival lifecycle metadata • XBRL – business reporting • Dublin Core – citation metadata • Support work on mappings [email protected]

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Recent and ongoing Activities

• Projects – NORC Data Enclave • http://www.norc.org/DataEnclave • Virtual enclave (NIST, USDA, Kaufmann, NSF, others) – Completed DDI DExT (UKDA) – Contributed to DDI-FTP • Events – ODaF EU and North America 2008 – IASSIST 08, METIS 2008, FedCAsic 08 & 09, Wiesbaden wokshop (DDI/SDMX), Joint Statistical Meetings (Denver) – Canadian Research Data Center, FedStats, Dagstuhl (training at experts), NORC Metadata workshop • Papers – RatSWD Working Paper 57-9 on Metadata [email protected]

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Planned activities

• SDMX Startup guides • SDMX Users forum • SDMX registry • ISO 11179 3d edition registry • Research Web 2.0 technologies • DDI Europe and North America users groups • Virtual Research and Collaborative Center • IASSIST 2009 and other conferences • DDI / SDMX adoption by vendors • Papers – DDI 3, Standard mappings • Small projects – SPSS web based converter, Stata reader, DDI3 web based scheme editors (classifications, concepts, universe, etc), ODaF DeXtris 2.0, contributions to the DDI-FTP [email protected]

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Challenges

• Glow into a group o 15-20 active individual in next 3-5 years • Resources – Fill open manager position – Identify new director(s) – Need more activities/contributions from members (sustain activities, mailing list) • Funding – Currently operates on about USD $50K/year + in kind contributions – Need to increase revenues from projects (15% overhead) – Need funding sources – Larger organization / events will require larger budget [email protected]

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ODaF Q&A

ODaF Europe 2009

Metadata in research data centers

ODaF EU 2009

• Topics – Metadata: production, ingestion, archival, digital resources, project, researcher – Enhanced Publications – Standard mappings – Others… • Life cycle metadata – Data food chain: from microdata to aggregated time series / indicators – Need multiple standards • Production, Archival, Research, Resources, Packaging, Project, etc. metadata – Maintain linkages • Across domains • With unstructured knowledge [email protected]

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New focus on Researcher metadata

• What is it?

– how data is being discovered and used – the research process – the research outputs (enhanced publications) – the new knowledge regarding the data and the research topics – the research profile and behavior • Recently (past 2-3 years) started to get attention from metadata producers/archives – before, they were busy putting together their own metadata) and specification like the DDI 3 [email protected]

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How to capture researcher metadata?

• Automated: in the background, by metadata aware software applications • Semi-automated: using wizards, quick feedback tools, parsing statistical source code, etc. (requires a small user or administrator intervention) • Manual: where the user itself provides all the information (like documents its data, describes its publication, etc.) • Note that for the later two cases we need (should) to provide incentives for the researcher • research metadata capture is realistic to capture in an RDC environment – it is closed and we control everything that goes in and out – we can observe the user behavior (automated capture) – we can require some information to provided as an RDC access/use condition [email protected]

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Benefits

• Meet the replication standard (Gary King, http://gking.harvard.edu/projects/repl.shtml

) • Improve quality of outputs (automated production of documentation/citation, better data consistency) • Time saving: data discovery, script generator, document generator, code reuse, citation generator, etc.

• Facilitate – preservation of their work – peer review (can be a metadata driven process, simple feedback mechanism can be implemented).

– dissemination of their work (well documented enhanced publications can be distributed automatically, registered in citations database, etc.) – use of their work by others (and self) • Foster collaboration • Incentives for the RDC and data providers such as: – feedback from users – understanding of how the data is begin used – copy of research outputs and secondary data [email protected]

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ODa 2009 Presentations

• • • • The IDSC of IZA: Past, Present and Future [Nikos Askitas, IZA] Concept Hierarchy Assisted News in Economics [Georgios Tassoukis, IZA) The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future [Ruud Luijkx, U. Tilburg] The DRIVER initiative for networking repositories [Wolfram Horstman, DRIVER] • • • • Enhanced publications [Thomas Place, U. Tilburg] The DatapluS Enhanced Publications Editor [Bart van Nieuwburg, CenERData] Data Documentation and Dissemination with Questasy [Alerk Amin, CenERData] Open access and research data [John Doove, SURF] • • • Overview, importance and benefits of SDMX registries [Arofan Gregory, ODaF] SDMX at the European Central Bank [Gerard Salou / Xavier Sosnovsky, ECB] Virtual Research and Collaborative Center [Pascal Heus, ODaF/NORC] • Developments of the Data Infrastructure in Germany since the end of the 90s [Hilmar Schneider, IZA] [email protected]

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