Building a community around DDI: The European DDI Users Conference

The annual European DDI Users Conference (EDDI) was established in 2009 to bring together users of the DDI standards, to exchange ideas, and support capacity building loosely based around the IASSIST model. The DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) standards are open standards for describing and managing data from social, demographic, economic and health sciences. This presentation will outline the development of the Conference, and how it has evolved to reflect the changing needs of data producers, managers and disseminators.

The presentation will also discuss the challenges of bringing together a diverse community of metadata and data producers and users, where EDDI has succeeded and where there is room for improvement.