Programme for the 2008 CESSDA EXPERT SEMINAR

 

Thursday September 11th 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome 9:15 - 9:30 Programme and Practical 9:30 - 10:30 Present metadata handling Each archive make a short presentation on how metadata are presently captured, maintained, stored and presented in the archive. A special emphasis should be made on software systems and metadata repositories Each presentation should be less than 10 minutes and focus on presently used formats, repositories and tools. The presentation should also be provided in a machine readable version suitable for publication on the seminar webpage 10:30 - 11:00 Break for coffee and other evil vegetables 11:00 - 12:00 Present metadata handling continued 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 Present metadata handling continued 14:30 - 15:00 Comfort break (Coffe and such) 15:00 - 17:00 DDI and Nesstar Status and plans of Nesstar relating to the developments in DDI Friday September 12th 9:00 - 10:30  Presentation of DDI and ICPSR editor   10:30 - 11:00 Break for Tea and such 11 - 12:00 The DDI Tools project What is already here - what is expected - how can we help. Presentation. Suggestions and needs. Discussion. 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 Ways to present metadata: DDI or out of the box Discussion about ways to disseminate metadata: What to include in a front-end presentation in the context of DDI elements and a layout of the options using the DDI as persistence structure. A discussion of the challenges of either using DDI in xml-format or querying a database with the metadata stored in relations. 14:30 - 15:00 Just a short intermission 14:30 - 16:30 Cessda PPP What's up DDI-wise in the EU-project? 16:30 - 17:00 Wrap up Future cooperation etc 19:00 - Seminar dinner (DDA is hosting) Saturday September 13th 9:30 - 15:00 Excursion.