DDI Training Materials: A Metadata Management Training Resource
Résumé
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. DDI is a free standard that can document and manage different stages in the research data lifecycle. The DDI training materials provide an introduction to metadata and DDI, to those who are new to DDI - from the basics of ‘What is Metadata?’ to more detailed subjects like ‘Variables and the Variable Cascade’. They can be used for your own individual training to gain an understanding of different aspects of DDI, or re-used when developing training activities. The training materials were developed by the DDI Alliance Training Working Group (DDI TWG), whose mission involves introducing people to DDI and improving people's competence in working with DDI. The resources have been published in the Zenodo community DDI Training Materials (https://zenodo.org/communities/ddi_training_material) in the form of presentations, and include a guide for how to use them. In addition, efforts are being made to translate several presentations into various languages. The poster was created for the IASSIST 2024 conference and describes the DDI Training resources and how to use them for your own or others learning.