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Exciting news for the DDI community! Introducing our draft Strategic Plan, 2024-2027! We're focusing on: 1️⃣ Engaging the DDI Community 2️⃣ Expanding the DDI Community 3️⃣ Aligning DDI Development. Join us in shaping the future by sharing your feedback: bit.ly/4atUYmZ

Do you have innovative ideas to enhance DDI activities? Submit your funding proposals for FY2025 by April 22, 2024. More info: bit.ly/3TQpRN1

Great opportunity to do a PhD in #NLProc and #cybersec with Nishanth Sastry (nsastry@masto Don.social), Dr. Ehsan Toreini and me. Applications close 3rd April. #nlpphd #PETs #PhDposition #Funding findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

"In 1981 only 12% of Britons thought that homosexuality was justifiable, according to the World Values Survey; in 2022 the figure was 66%...Where the public has led, politicians have followed". The Economist highlights findings from our WVS programme ➡️ economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

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New data from Wave 1 of #ChildrenOfThe2020s, the first national longitudinal study of babies to be launched in a generation, are now available. The new data release includes information about more than 8,700 babies, born in England, at 9 months of age. 1/2

“We benefit a lot from the #metadata collaboration and the collaboration and CESSDA ERIC Facilitates a number of #EuropeanProjects. We have benefitted by taking part in the SSHOpenCloud project" Bodil Agasøster, Product Manager at Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in E&R . ➡cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-Ne…

Exciting things are always happening in the world of data! Check out our current #DDI products, training materials, resources, and more at ddialliance.org. #DDIAlliance #MetadataStandard

The 16th European DDI User Conference is accepting proposals! Join the #EDDI24 hosts in Chur, Switzerland from Monday 2 to Friday 6 December 2024. Don't miss out! Submit your papers by 2 Sept. Find out more and submit at eddi-conferences.eu #DDI #MetadataStandard

Always happy to speak about #DDI #iassist2024 here I come

Our Data Discoverability Team are in Canada this week for #iassist2024 presenting: 1⃣Moving from project to infrastructure 2⃣Collaborations using common concepts: NACDA Program on Aging & CLOSER 3⃣DDI training materials: A metadata management training resource closer.ac.uk/event/iassist-…

Excited to kick-off our #METACURATEML project, with CLOSER UCL, UKDataService & ScotCen to generate #ML-driven #metadata and #data solutions which are #FAIR ready, using #GrowingupinScotland study as a pilot dataset. Grateful for funding from Economic and Social Research Council #FutureDataService.

Happy to end this week with a good news. Thanks ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche for selecting our CDSP Sciences Po FAIRwDDI project anr.fr/fileadmin/aap/…

🆕Standardised scales (SS) added to Discovery, our research tool for longitudinal population studies! This update will make it easier to determine if questions belong to a SS & identify where they are used across our studies & waves of data collection. closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/n…

The 16th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI 2024) will be held in person in Chur, Switzerland, from 2–6 December 2024. Visit eddi-conferences.eu to learn more and register!

🔔Our next 'Metadata management in the real world' webinar (25 Sept) will showcase how you can get the most out of the new standardised scales and lists features of our Discovery research tool for longitudinal population studies! Book your spot: closer.ac.uk/event/mmitrw-s…

Our Elsevier Neurocomputing paper is now online: doi.org/10.1016/j.neuc…

Congratulations to my PhD student Zeqiang Wang & Yuqi Wang for their work on #longitudinal semantic shifts getting accepted EMNLP 2025 Findings. Co-supervised w/ WeiWang, Nishanth Sastry (nsastry@masto Don.social) & Jon Johnson CLOSER. metadata-automation