29 November 2022 to 1 December 2022
Paris
Europe/Berlin timezone

Call for Abstracts

  • Opening day
  • Submission deadline

EDDI21 is organized jointly by CDSP, Center for Socio-Political Data, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioural, economic, and health sciences.

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.

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

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

Submissions and Presentation forms

Proposals are welcome for the following presentation forms.

  • Complete Session: Proposals for complete sessions should list the organizer or moderator and possible participants. The session organizer will be responsible for securing both session participants and a chair. This is designed for sessions which could be described as a Discussion, Plenary or Birds of a Feather.
  • The submission should provide titles, author names, and a brief description for each of the individual presentations and email the details to Program Committee (eddi21-prog@googlegroups.com).
  • Submission: abstract (300 words maximum).
  • Full Paper: The presentation will be approx. 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions at the end.
  • Accepted papers will be presented at the conference. They can be published in the journal IASSIST Quarterly. At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the conference and to present the paper.
  • Submission: abstract (200 words maximum) - Further requirements: see section Author Guideline & Important dates below.
  • Regular Presentation: The presentation will be approx. 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions at the end.
  • Submission: abstract (200 words maximum).
  • Short Presentation: The presentations will be approx. 10 minutes long, plus 5 minutes for questions at the end.
  • Submission: abstract (200 words maximum).
  • Tutorial or Workshop: Half-day or full-day tutorials (introductions) or workshops (more advanced special topics)
    with respectively 2 and 4 blocks each lasting 90 minutes in length.
    These are scheduled to take place on November 30, 2021
  • The abstract should describe the topic, the perspective (business or technical), the intended audience and possible prerequisites.
    Hands-on exercises could rely on the participants using laptop computers.
  • Submission: abstract (300 words maximum).

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please login to use the submission system.
You will have first to create an account, or just log-in if you have already have one.
In section "My submission" you can start the submission process.

  • The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2021, 24:00 CEST.
  • Please consider indicating your availability as a reviewer as well.

Author Guidelines & Important dates

  • Deadline of Call for Papers / all proposals due: September 1, 2021 (24:00 CEST).
  • Notification of acceptance for all proposals: September 27, 2021.
  • Final version of full papers due: November 11, 2021.

For Full papers, a draft of the paper of 8-12 pages with appendices must be sent in addition to the
Program Committee (eddi21-prog@googlegroups.com) for review until September 1, 2021
The paper reviews will be sent to the authors by September 27, 2021.
- Full papers must follow the rules of IASSIST Quarterly. Submissions should use the IQ author template.
- Please pay attention to the details in the template and submit your contribution in Microsoft Word document file format (or RTF or OpenOffice) and PDF format.
- Accepted papers have to be submitted in Microsoft Word document file format (or RTF or OpenOffice) and PDF format.

General Information

  • 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 EDDI21, please send an email to eddi21-prog@googlegroups.com.
  • Last year's program is available at the EDDI20 website.
  • For more information about the EDDI conference series and details on the previous EDDI conferences, look at http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/.
The call for abstracts is closed.