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❄️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
February 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
📅 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
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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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
January 28, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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💕 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

#ICPSRDataFair #metadata
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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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
Inicio - DCM 2026
Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. 12-15 May, Barcelona, World Trade Center.
dcm2026.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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

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January 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
📣 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
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
🔐 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
January 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚀 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
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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.
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Conference registration closes on 26 November at 09:59 CEST. Don't miss out eddi2025conference.konfeo.com/en/groups
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
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📣 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
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
💡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
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#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!
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
October 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌟 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
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🍂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
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM