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The DDI 3.2 standard is called “DDI Lifecycle,” so named because it describes metadata at each stage of the research data lifecycle, i.e., “from cradle to grave.” While few projects actually employ DDI Lifecycle to drive these processes, demonstrating that DDI is an efficient framework for organizing typical survey tasks would prove that the DDI community can “eat your own dogfood” by using the standard to manage its own research. In 2015 the North American DDI (NADDI) conference introduced a DDI-based protocol to manage the feedback survey conducted with conference participants. Because similar evaluations had been performed at previous NADDI conferences, this project also demonstrated DDI 3.2’s facility in describing study series in a cross-sectional panel survey design. This presentation will elaborate the rationale for the project, describe the relationship between the two principal stakeholders (Colectica and Nooro), and describe how DDI informed and drove each step of the fielding process: designing the conceptual questionnaire; fielding the designed instrument; documenting response data and linking to questionnaire metadata; and displaying, harmonizing, and comparing results with prior years. Finally, this presentation demonstrates that feasibility of DDI-driven conference evaluations and proposes a similar project be conducted for EDDI. |
