ODaF Europe 2008 Program (PDF)
ODaF Europe 2008 Meeting Summary (PDF)
ODaF Europe 2008 Presentations (ZIP)

The ODaF Europe 2008 regional meeting will take place at the UK Data Archive on April 14-15. This regional event is open to all members as well as individuals and agencies interested to learn more about ODaF, get involved in our actvities or simply share ideas.

We are a currently drafting the agenda. The first day will start with a brief introduction of ODaF and an update on our completed, ongoing and planned activities. This will be followed by presentations by other participants. The second day will focus on new ideas, suggestions and discussions of the action plan for moving the organization forward in the European region. If you wish to make a short presentation of your organization's activities or a particular topic, please let us know and we'll do our best to integrate to in the program.

We would like to express thanks the UK Data Archive for its support and assistance in making this event possible.

PROGRAM

• Sunday, April 13th
  • Evening: Participants get together (The George bar/restaurant)
• Monday, April 14th (09h00-17h00)
  • Morning:
  • Participants introduction
  • ODaF Overview, activities & projects [Pascal Heus, ODaF]
  • The DDI Landscape: status, agencies, activities [Pascal Heus, ODaF]
  • Metadata Standards Mappings [Arofan Gregory, ODaF]
  • Afternoon:
    • Integration of Metadata in FDZ-RV [Conny Dippold, Germany]
    • DANS Digital Preservation Project [Rene van Horik / Laurent Sesink, Netherlands]
    • ICPSR/SRO Shared Data Model Project [Mary Vardigan, USA]
    • The UK Data Archive [Louise Corti, UK]
    • Statistics Norway: Information Architecture - some challenges [Rune Gloersen, Norway]
    • The Institute for Study of Labor (IZA) [Nikos Askitas, Germany]
    • The Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research[Stefan Bender & Dana Mueller, Germany]
    • Canada RDC Project [Chuck Humphrey / Raymond Currie, Canada]
  • 17:30: Reception at UKDA
  • 20:00: ODaF dinner (Lemon Tree, Colchester)
• Tuesday, April 15th (09h00-16h00)
  • Morning: Follow-up discussions, ideas, brainstorming. Topics discussed:
    • DDI Version Confusion
    • Fostering adoption of DDI by national statistical agencies/li>
    • DDI Tools & Roadmap: communication strategy
    • What to do with metadata standards mappings?
    • Project for pre-configuration of Fedora to support DDI/METS/QuDExT
    • DDI Editor(s): wish list
    • User authetication / SSO: SAML, Sibboleth
    • DDI Profiles & best practices
    • Standard archive: SDFP? Need for preservation metadata in DDI 3.0.
    • QuDEX tools (qualitative data)
    • Organization of an RDC Meeting
    • Migration toools to/from Beyond 20/20, Supertab and SDMX
    • Next generation web based analysis tools, metadata visualization
    • Regional DDI User Group
    • Tools demo
  • Afternoon: Action plan, next steps

Who can attend the Annual Meetings?
Open Data Foundation Directors, Advisors, Members and representatives from organizations or interetsed individuals are all welcomed to participate.

Virtual participation
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If you can't attend
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LOCATION

UK Data Archive
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ
Tel: +44 (0)1206 872143, Fax: +44 (0)1206 872003
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

Getting there...

The UKDA is located on th Campus on the University of Essex (in building 2.N.2) at Wivenhoe Park on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex. Colchester is situated within easy reach of London by road and rail. Stansted airport and the ferry port at Harwich provide good links to Europe and the rest of the world. For general information on the how to reach the campus, visit http://www.essex.ac.uk/about/find.html.

if you are coming from London Heathrow, you can take the Tube to Liverpool Street station (change in Holborn) and then grab a train to Colchester main station (typically every 20 minutes). The trip takes between 2h30-3h00 and cost about £25. Use local buses and taxis to get to the hotel or the UKDA.

HOTELS

Wivenhoe House is ideal location-wise as within walking distance of the UKDA. Unfortunately on the Monday evening they only have a few rooms available. Rates for single occupancy per night, inc. breakfast are £108 standard and £120 executive. Delegates may need to book themselves securing with a credit card number as by working in conjunction with the conference office here on campus details rather outrageous cancellation clauses.

Both the George Hotel (High Street, Colchester) and Rose and Crown Hotel (East Hill, Colchester) currently have plenty of availability. The George Hotel can provide rooms for single occupancy per night inc. breakfast at a rate of £75.00. The Rose and Crown Hotel (http://www.rose-and-crown.com) can do single occupancy, inc. breakfast at £70.00.

WIVENHOE HOUSE
Please see http://www.wivenhoehousehotel.co.uk/accommodation.shtm for further info.

GEORGE HOTEL
116 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1TD
Telephone: 01206 578494 Facsimile: 01206 767732
Email Reservations@ColchesterGeorgeHotel.co.uk 47 bedrooms all with en suite facilities; 1 single, 4 twin, 29 double, 13 luxury bedrooms.

THE ROSE AND CROWN HOTEL RAC
East Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 2TZ
Telephone: 01206 866677 Facsimile: 01206 866616
E-mail: info@rose-and-crown.com
http://www.rose-and-crown.com
29 bedrooms all with en suite facilities; 1 single, 2 twin, 23 double, 3 family.