This is a reminder for the 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting, 
December 8-9, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. For more details, see below.

Please note that the venue has a maximum capacity of 70 people. Please 
register soon, only 15 places are currently left.

An additional course is offered: Introduction to the Statistical Data 
and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Standard. The course will be taught by 
Arofan Gregory, Open Data Foundation.

The program, abstracts, and information on the venue and the
registration are available on the EDDI website:
http://www.iza.org/eddi10

Kind regards
Joachim Wackerow
(chair of the program committee)


Joachim Wackerow wrote:
> Call for Participation for the
> 2nd Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting
> 
> DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle
> December 8 - 9, 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands
> Hosted by SURFfoundation
> 
> EDDI is designed to provide an annual European forum where DDI users 
> from Europe can gather to showcase their work and their progress toward 
> DDI adoption, as well as discuss any questions or challenges they may 
> have about the standard.
> 
> EDDI10 includes 20 presentations on case studies, interplay of DDI with 
> other standards, software implementations, reports of working groups, 
> and discussion sessions. Peter Wittenburg, Technical Director of the Max 
> Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 
> will deliver the plenary speech.
> 
> The program, abstracts, and information on the venue and the 
> registration are available on the EDDI website:
> http://www.iza.org/eddi10
> 
> When you are interested to participate, please register soon. There is a 
> maximum capacity of 70 persons.
> 
> 
> Two additional events take place prior to EDDI10:
> 
> 1. Half-day course on DDI 3: Putting DDI to Work for You (Wendy Thomas, 
> Minnesota Population Center), morning of December 8.
> 
> 2. 2.5-day meeting of developers working on DDI implementations. Agenda 
> topics will include interoperability, open source tools, promoting DDI 
> tools, sharing experiences, and future collaboration.
> 
> 
> EDDI 2010 is organized jointly by CentERdata - Institute for Data 
> Collection and Research, DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services, 
> GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, IZA - Institute for 
> the Study of Labor, SURF - the collaborative organization for IT 
> innovations in higher education in the Netherlands, and Library and IT 
> Services of Tilburg University.
> 
> Last year, the successful first EDDI Meeting took place in Bonn 
> (Germany) with 60 participants from 10 countries attending. The program 
> offering 14 presentations is available at:
> http://www.iza.org/eddi09
> 
> Further information on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) can be 
> found at http://www.ddialliance.org/.
> 
> Kind regards
> Joachim Wackerow
> (chair of the program committee)
> 


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