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CALL FOR PAPERS

8th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI16)

DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle

Submission Deadline:	September 4, 2016
Place:	Cologne, Germany
Date:	December 6/7, 2016
Host:	GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Conference web page:	http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi16

EDDI16 is organized jointly by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

The meeting will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the world. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and present.

Call for Papers

We are seeking presentations, talks, papers, posters on all things DDI:

• Case Studies
• Mature implementations
• Early Implementations
• Interplay of DDI with other standards or technologies
• Projects in early phases in which DDI is under consideration
• Critiques of DDI

This year we would like to encourage papers which focus on re-use of software and re-use of administered metadata. Examples of this could be question banks, re-use of software components and provision of services which foster re-use. We would also like to encourage papers which discuss barriers to the creation and uptake and maintenance of such re-use.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

• User Needs, Efficient Infrastructures and Improved Quality
• Official Statistics
• Reusing and Sharing Metadata
• Data Harmonization
• Incentives to Document Data
• Open Data and Linked Open Data
• Privacy and Access Control
• Metadata versus Data and Related Ethics
• Software / Tools

Submission

Proposals are welcome for multiple content types and presentation forms.

Content Types

• Scientific Method
• Impact for the Community
• Project Report

Presentation Forms

• Plenary Presentation
• Full Paper
• Regular Presentation
• Short Presentation
• Poster/Software Demonstration
• Complete Session

Other Submission Types

• Tutorial or Workshop
• Side Meeting

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please use the online submission system of the conference. The deadline for submissions is September 4, 2016. Please have a look at the Call for Paper page for further details. Please consider to indicate the availability as reviewer as well.

General Information

For more information about the conference, see the conference web site at http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/eddi16.

The Program Committee strategically develops, creates and organizes the program. The Organization Committee coordinates the onsite work.

For questions or any other correspondence regarding the Call for Papers of EDDI16, please send an email to [log in to unmask].

Last year’s presentations and posters are available at the EDDI15 website.

For more information about the EDDI conference series and details on the previous EDDI conferences, look at http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/.

Jon Johnson and Joachim Wackerow (co-chairs) on behalf of the EDDI16 Program Committee