Thank to Louise Corti
Dear Colleagues,
Making survey metadata reusable across the lifecycle – please endorse the shared
principles
We are asking our colleagues and organisations who produce and utilise survey
data to endorse some new principles which will make it easier to re-use survey
metadata across the data lifecycle.
Currently there are obstacles to creating re-suable documentation for data. In
particular, the metadata journey from owner to producer back to owner and to
archive still uses relatively old-fashioned processes, which rely on manual
intervention and some replication of activities.
We need to reduce the inefficiency of the current processes of questionnaire
specification, capture of its implementation using Computer Assisted
Interviewing (CAI) software, and delivery of data to owners and archives. These
processes can be assisted by using interoperable standards, particularly for
questionnaire metadata.
At the UK Data Service and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, (Institute of
Education) we agree that the best approach is to use a recognised international
metadata standard, such as the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). This is
already used by most international survey data archives. At the Survey
Metadata: Barriers and Opportunities meeting held on in June 2014, survey
owners, producers, CAI suppliers, and archives from the UK discussed, and
agreed to support, a set of principles and a minimal subset of the DDI metadata
standard for questionnaire description.
The emphasis is very much on a pragmatic solution, so we’re asking those
organisations working in this area to read and endorse the final set of
principles hosted on the DDI community site and, optionally, view the
questionnaire metadata profile. Further details can be found here, as well as
the link to endorse the recommended standard.
Survey Metadata Reusability and Exchange: A Call to Action for Questionnaire
Documentation:
http://www.ddialliance.org/survey-metadata-reusability-and-exchange
Please forward this on to colleagues who are survey owners and producers.
Many thanks!
Louise Corti
Functional Director, Collections Development and Producer Relations
T +44(0) 1206 872145
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UK Data Service
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
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