Next Wednesday: Meeting of the Metadata Publication and Access Working Group

[Wenzig, Knut]

Dear colleagues,

Below you find the invitation to the next meeting of the Metadata Publication and Access Working Group of the DDI Alliance.

Please let me know if you would like to join the group and receive future invitations.

Best regards,

Knut Wenzig

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Von: Wenzig, Knut <KWe...@diw.de>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2026 15:52
Bis: DDI MPAWG <ddim...@diw.de>
Betreff: Next Wednesday: Meeting of the Metadata Publication and Access Working Group

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder of the next meeting of the Metadata Publication and Access Working Group, scheduled for next Wednesday:

📅 Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2026
🕓 Time: 16:00 CET (Europe/Berlin, UTC+1) / 15:00 UTC
📍 Location: Microsoft Teams
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2E2MjdkZDUtN2EyOC00N2I2LThkNzAtNWU4YWUyMGU3MmYy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2289e77033-8876-4ceb-8259-983014a016a2%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2239ed7b19-48aa-4a98-a6c6-4500aa43a10e%22%7d 

Proposed discussion points

• API Exploring the SDMX-API and developing ideas on how an API could present a list of concepts (Nicolas).
  Nicolas has initialized a prototype on GitHub: https://github.com/NicoLaval/DDI-API 
  The prototype uses OpenAPI to define initial GET endpoints for DDI-L: https://github.com/NicoLaval/DDI-API/blob/main/ddi-rest.yaml 
  A Swagger instance is available for testing the endpoints, including a mock server: https://nicolaval.github.io/DDI-API/ 
• FAIR signposting Discovery via sitemaps and their use (Knut, Olof).
  New text has been added to the document (sections Scenario, Discovery via Registry, Sitemap Provision by Repositories):
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nF-eUjl3sNADrhiirQpu74ONFnC9DMr5o10_Jq575JM/edit?usp=sharing 
• OAI-PMH Recommendations for responses to ListMetadataFormats (Knut).
  Knut can present an idea from EDDI: a JavaScript application that checks locally in the browser whether a repository complies with OAI-PMH recommendations:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Xqq0vWd4TWXZ40qHlUCRAGq3RbQs2fJ/view?usp=sharing 
  (Note: the Firefox extension CORS Everywhere is required.)
• Subgroups?
  The sentiment during the EDDI side meeting was “no.”
• Meeting schedule
  Should we continue meeting on the last Wednesday of each month?

Documents and shared space

The DDI Alliance has set up a Google Space for all groups, and I have been asked to move the documents there (the URLs have not changed):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SSqGpZ9dn3ZHEcU38k7Op0W3oPEKGl9Z?usp=drive_link (I provided your  email addresses or - where available - the email addresses you gave me for the Google folder.)

You reach everything from the public WIKI page of the group: https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQDk4

Best regards

knut.