17th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI2025)
Published January 20, 2026 | Version v1
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A Lightning Talk Session from the Scientific Board

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon UK Data Service
  • 2. ROR icon German Institute for Economic Research
  • 3. Making sense, Paris, France
  • 4. Forschungsdatenzentrum Qualiservice, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen,
  • 5. ROR icon Committee on Data of the International Science Council
  • 6. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
  • 7. Ontario Council of University Libraries: Toronto, ON, CA
  • 8. Colectica (United States): Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
  • 9. Swedish National Data Service: Gothenburg, SE
  • 10. ROR icon GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

Description

2025 has been the most productive year yet for the Alliance with the number of initiatives, work groups, and products continuing to expand. The Scientific Board maintains a watchful eye over this hive of activity and this set of lightning talks is intended to give you bite-size insights into the latest developments, from tools to standards and all stops in between. We’ll begin with a whistle-stop tour of the differences between the Executive and Scientific Boards and the Working Groups and the way the Alliance manages its work. It’s an exciting time for Quali aficionados and the recently created Qualitative Data Working Group embeds this discipline into future DDI product roadmaps. The release of DDI-CDI 1.0 early this year, as well as being a significant milestone for the cross-domain applicability of DDI, has engendered a series of compelling AI-related activities related to upscaling and automating curation pipelines. A reinvigorated developer group has been busy enabling data professionals to work more seamlessly with DDI standards and to lower the barrier to entry for using DDI products. The next version of Lifecycle - 4.0 - will be fully model-driven for the first time and this talk will explain why you should care. Interoperability is the buzzword of the moment and we now have a Publishing and Access WG which focuses on making DDI a first-class API citizen. The updated DDI website prompted a re-examination of how we make resources available and easily findable for the community. If the phrase “Information Architecture" makes you want to self-harm, this talk will explain why it should give you a dopamine rush instead. Finally, as part of the Alliance’s strategic commitment to expansion, we wrap up with some lightning talks on launching DDI into the ISO and W3C spotlight and where we’re going next. The question is, are you ready for Total DDI?
1) The Scientific Board for dummies - Darren Bell
2) The new Qualitative Data WG – Noemi Cabrera Betancort
3) DDI-CDI and AI - Slava Tykhonov
4) Tools: from Nesstar to Nectar - Olof Olsson and Oliver Hopt
5) Training - Amber Leahey
6) DDI-L 4.0 - Dan Smith
7) Publishing and Access WG - Knut Wenzig
8) Why the Alliance needs an Information Architecture - Darren Bell
9) DDI Alliance and W3C collaboration – Franck Cotton
10) DDI as an ISO standard - Wendy Thomas
11) The DDI Alliance - future vision - Steve McEachern
12) Q&A

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