Registration is now open for the first summer school, organised by the Belgian Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive (SODHA) and supported by EDDI. Join us in Brussels (4-7 May) Find out more at lnkd.in/eZY6jrVt

Join us for a DDI webinar on Tuesday, 3 March, at 15:00 UTC. “DDI-Codebook Version 2.6 -- Overview and Q&A During Final Vote” This session is intended to support reviewers and voting members by providing clarity during the voting period. Learn more and register at bit.ly/4kH4yt0

❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day from the DDI Alliance! Our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who is part of the DDI Alliance community. Here’s to more collaboration, innovation, and shared love for quality data! 📊ddialliance.org #DDIAlliance #ValentinesDay #DataLove #FAIRdata #DDI #MetadataStandard

❄️The Winter 2026 DDI Community Newsletter is here! Stay up-to-date on the latest highlights of our community’s progress and upcoming opportunities! 👉 ddialliance.org/news

📅 Coming soon! Final public reviews & votes for several DDI products are coming over the next several months! Products include: DDI-Codebook (version 2.6), DDI-Lifecycle (version 4.0), and DDI-CDI (version 1.1). Find out more at bit.ly/3Z8HhGE #DDIAlliance

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 FEBRUARY: CFP Dataverse 2026 Annual Meeting from May 12th–15th, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain codata.org/call-for-pap... #codata #FAIRdata #OpenScience #datascience #opendata

Get the latest announcements, news, initiatives, community updates & events from the DDI Alliance! Subscribe to quarterly DDI newsletters & mailing lists at ddialliance.org. #DDIAlliance #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata #DDI

💕 Event Alert! Join us for our #LoveData26 webinar, "Getting Better All the Time: Metadata Enhancements in the ICPSR Catalog!" 🗓️ Tuesday, February 10, 2026 🕛 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET 🔗 Register myumi.ch/G23mq#LoveData26 #ICPSRDataFair #metadata

Call for Papers is now open! Dataverse Community Meeting 2026, Barcelona! We are glad to inform you that the call for papers is available dcm2026.com/call-for-pap... The call for papers will remain open until the 29th of January, 2026! #Dataverse2026

By participating in the Summer Program, DeKeitra Griffin, PhD student in Social Work was able to take courses and develop skills he needed on his own timeline: "I'm already ahead of the game." Plot your own course! Registration begins soon! #SumProg26 Alt: Video of a person being interviewed.

📣 Exciting news from the #DDIAlliance Technical Committee! The fourth (and final!) beta of DDI Lifecycle 4.0 is now available. Your feedback on Beta 4.0 is essential before public review & adoption. Please share comments by April 15, 2025! More ➡️ bit.ly/4qf8nqN #DDILifecycle

Feels like the #EDDI2025 conference was a year ago. 😉 If you missed it or want to reminisce, check out the "Highlights from the 17th European DDI User Conference" article at bit.ly/4qWIBIf. Explore the presentations on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/eddi2025 #DDIAlliance

🔐 Enhance data reuse, support standards compliance & improve interoperability. Discover more at ddialliance.org! ✨ Generate interactive codebooks 🧠 Build question banks 🔎 Harmonize and compare data 🌐 Implement data catalogs 🔗 Create concordance mapping 📊 Manage longitudinal datasets

Join over 40 fellow organizations as a member of the DDI Alliance, an international collaboration supporting the creation and development of the DDI specification as an international metadata standard for documenting data. To learn more, please visit: ddialliance.org/how-to-join

The #DDIAlliance offices will be on holiday closure from Dec. 25 until Jan. 2. We wish everyone a joyful holiday season and look forward to reconnecting in the new year! Visit us at ddialliance.org for your #MetadataStandard needs.

🚀 Curious about making qualitative data easier to share and reuse? Check out the Qualitative Data Working Group (QDWG)! We're enhancing documentation practices & extending #DDI standards to support qualitative & mixed methods research. Explore our Wiki: bit.ly/4j5ALtk

Make your documentation accessible to a wider audience! DDI standardizes documentation using XML, making it easier to use online or in print. One document, many uses! Learn more about data interoperability at ddialliance.org or at bit.ly/4aIz3Ma

Thank you to our host for the #EDDI2025 conference! Learn more about the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Research Documentation Centre at kdk.tk.elte.hu/en and #DDI at ddialliance.org.

Shout out to the #EDDI2025 Sponsors! We couldn’t do it without you! Learn more about the sponsoring organizations at events.geant.org/event/1879/page/59-sponsors and #DDI at ddialliance.org.

Thanksgiving is over, Xmas is coming … it’s time for the best event of the year, the 17th European DDI Users Conference taking place in the beautiful city of Budapest. Generously hosted by the Research Documentation Centre at the ELTE Institute for Sociology, CSS. Follow along at #EDDI2025

The DDI Alliance offices will be closed on November 27 & 28 in observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Thankfully, the dialliance.org site is always open for your #MetadataStandard needs.

Conference registration closes on 26 November at 09:59 CEST. Don't miss out eddi2025conference.konfeo.com/en/groups

📣 Announcing the new #DDI Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)! This new initiative will focus on advancing the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in alignment with the FAIR data principles. Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1

💡Check it out! The #DDI Controlled Vocabularies Working Group is happy to announce the recently updated Controlled Vocabularies page on the #DDIAlliance site. rdf-vocabulary.ddialliance.org

#EDDI2025 is just around the corner—Budapest awaits in less than two months! Check out the details: bit.ly/4mYIt93 ✨ Early bird registration 📅 Program highlights 🛠️ Pre-conference workshop: Intro to DDI for Small Organisations 🎓 Scholarships available …and much more! See you in Budapest!

🌟 Exciting news from the #DDIAlliance! We extend a warm welcome to our newest Associate Members: CONSTANCES Cohort, France Cohortes/FReSH, and Making Sense. We look forward to advancing metadata standards together and growing our collaborative community! ddialliance.org

We’re delighted to welcome the Central Statistics Office as a Full Member of the #DDIAlliance! 📊 The CSO, Ireland’s national statistical institute, brings expertise and innovation to our data standards community. ddialliance.org @CSOIreland #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

🍂The Fall 2025 DDI Community Summer Newsletter is here! Stay up-to-date on the latest highlights of our community’s progress and upcoming opportunities! 👉ddialliance.org/newsletters

#EDDI2025 is just around the corner—Budapest awaits in less than two months! Check out the details: bit.ly/4mYIt93 ✨ Early bird registration 📅 Program highlights 🛠️ Pre-conference workshop: Intro to DDI for Small Organisations 🎓 Scholarships available …and much more! See you in Budapest!

Collaboration is key! 🔑 The DDI Alliance brings together international experts, orgs, and projects to develop open metadata standards for research data. Join the global community: ddialliance.org/mission #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata #Collaboration

Registration is open for #EDDI2025, the annual conference for users of the DDI Alliance metadata specifications for the social, demographic, economic, and health sciences. Join us in Budapest this December! More ➡️ bit.ly/4mtmkPL

You’re invited to the first meeting of the DDI Alliance Metadata Publication and Access Working Group! Learn more about our group at bit.ly/3K66HjX and join us Sept. 24th.

You’re invited to the DDI Alliance Qualitative Data Working Group (QDWG) kickoff meeting! Learn more about our group at bit.ly/3VSCYNL. Join us Sept. 30th on Zoom bit.ly/3VN3DM0!

We have opened sponsorship for this years conference. More details at events.geant.org/event/1879/p...

📢 From the EDDI 2025 Program Committee- The deadline for submissions is now extended until Monday, 8 September 23:59 (UTC+1) More details are available on the conference website: events.geant.org/event/1879/ Looking forward to seeing you all in Budapest!

Time for great company and great views for the ICPSR Summer Program instructors, TAs, and staff after their successful Norfolk State University partnership! #SumProg #ICPSR #norfolkstate

The #DDIAlliance offices will be closed September 1st in observance of Labor Day. Our online resources are always open at ddialliance.org and myumi.ch/NmzJp. #DDI #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

Increase the REACH of your data with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard. Read more in our brochure at bit.ly/420ObPO and join the ranks of #DDI users by visiting the #DDIAlliance at ddialliance.org. #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

Our friends at @colectica.bsky.social have announced that Colectica 7.6 is now available! This release contains support for new #DDI content areas, OAI-PMH improvements, new enterprise deployment options, & many new features! 📰 www.colectica.com/news/Colecti... 📜 docs.colectica.com/changelog/7.6/

⚙️Working with research data? DDI metadata standards help describe, share & manage data according to FAIR principles—making your datasets Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, & Reusable. Get resources at ddialliance.org! #DDIAlliance #MetadataStandard #FAIRData

The DDI Alliance provides open metadata standards for documenting social, behavioral & health science data. Learn how DDI can support FAIR data practices with this quick Intro to DDI Metadata video: youtu.be/yCKMBYroAcU Explore & join the community at ddialliance.org

Get involved in DDI activities! Check out the DDI Alliance Working Group and Committees page to see what activities are ongoing and how to join a group: ddialliance.org/working-groups-committees #DDI #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

Discover the DDI Alliance Training Working Group: "Who, What, and How" as showcased in their presentation slides from the 2025 IASSIST Conference zenodo.org/records/1562... and at ddialliance.org. #DDI #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

🔐 Unlock the power of your research data with DDI Alliance! 🔹 Generate interactive codebooks 🔹 Build robust question banks 🔹 Harmonize & compare data across studies 🔹 Implement data catalogs for discovery 🔹 Map variable relationships 🔹 Manage complex, longitudinal datasets

☀️ The DDI Community Summer Newsletter for 2025 is here! Stay up-to-date on the latest news, website improvements, events, resources, and more! 👉bit.ly/4m2CmAi

🌍 Exciting news! #EDDI2025 is coming to Budapest 🇭🇺, December 1-5, hosted by the Centre for Social Sciences. 🤝 Promote your organization and help make the event more accessible. Explore sponsorship opportunities and support delegates who need it most. 👉 buff.ly/r3VlD3F

DDI helps make research data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable. Whether you're a researcher, data manager, statistical agency, or developer, DDI provides tools and best practices to enhance your work. Learn more at ddialliance.org/use-case-by-role

⚙️We’ve redesigned our website! Explore ddialliance.org — supporting data producers and data consumers! Learn how to use DDI, subscribe to stay updated on DDI announcements, news, and more! Take a look around and let us know what you think! #DDI #MetadataStandard

Happy Independence Day from the DDI Alliance! Celebrate the power of data—sharing metadata standards that document datasets, improving data sharing and discoverability across disciplines. 📊 Explore how DDI promotes FAIR data and interoperability at ddialliance.org

📚✨ See what the #DDI buzz is all about! Our DDI-related publications, presentations, posters, working papers, and workshops are available — all in one place 👉 ddialliance.org/publications. #DDIAlliance #FAIRdata #MetadataStandard