Workshop: Longitudinal research center in a box: Using DDI to enhance the mission of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center and the Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS) study

This seminar provides a gentle introduction to the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata standards for biomedical research data. Two NIA funded program projects, UCD ADC and MIDUS, applied DDI center-wide to document linked data and organize complex distributed data collection processes. We review why/how the application of DDI enhances research productivity and provide real-world examples how these research projects benefit from a technological standard that provides a basis for richly-structured metadata. We will also discuss some of the tools each center has created to implement DDI in a longitudinal health research context