DLI UPDATE 2008-2009
Michel SéguinStatistics Canada
April 24, 2008
Organizational update Changes in the DLI Community Changes in the EAC and
Education Committees Changes in the DLI Collection Present Projects – priorities
Annual report 2006/2007 Compleat Survival Kit DLI Interface and IMDB DDI DLI contacts and designates
survey
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Ivan Fellegi, currently Chief Statistician
Chief Statistician Emeritus following his retirement, effective June 16, 2008. Dr. Ivan Fellegi
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Currently Chief Statistician Designate, effective March 3, 2008
Chief Statistician, effective June 16, 2008.
Dr. Munir Sheikh
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Vicki Crompton – Director General
Will retire in June 2008
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Eric St. John is the new Director of Communications and Library Services Division since June 2007
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Bernie Gloyn is the Assistant-Director of Communications and Library Services Division
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Michel Seguin has replaced Mike Sivyer as Head of DLI Unit
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Marie-Claire will be going on maternity leave as of August 2008
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Jackie Godfrey Takes care of :
the FTP site the Web site the search tool registration on listserv passwords all of us
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Linda Harding-Devries When Linda is not climbing the Kilimanjaro Works on DDI project Participate to the STC DDI Working Group Works with Standards Division on IMDB and
DDI standards Ensure DLI contacts have access to Nesstar –
Password for data
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Renee Rocan
Renée occupies the administrative officer position since May 2008
She will confirmed in her position as of this week sometime
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
•Contract for Gaëtan Drolet has been renewed for this fiscal year
•Analysis of the DLI contacts and designates survey
•Continues to work on metrics showing the usage of the DLI collection
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
•Mike Sivyer
•Bookmarked through the Alumni Program at STC
•Works only a few hours a week for DLI
•Prepare the minutes from the EAC meeting
•Will help in the training of new DLI staff
•Remains well connected to the DLI
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
•Other staffing plans for the beginning of FY 08/09
•Eve Boyle – Technical Recruit to work on DDI for one year
•Another Marie-Claire
•Another André
Visited:Niagara CollegeDurham College
Nova Scotia College will be visited in Fall 2008
New colleges that have joined the DLIHumber College University of the Fraser ValleyThis brings the membership to 74
DLI MEMBERSHIP
Other institutions have made inquiries about joining DLI BCIT Olds College - December 2007 Justice Institute of BC - December 2007 Saskatchewan Institute of Applied
Science and Technology – December 2007
Lakeland College - February 2008 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
(NAIT) Libraries - February 2008 Sheridan College - February 2008 Fleming College - February 2008
DLI MEMBERSHIP
EAC MEMBERSHIP Mary MacLeod from Acadia has resigned from EAC
and the Education Committee Jennifer Adams has been appointed at the EAC and
at the Education Committee Jean Poirier representing the research community
has been appointed to replace Chad Gaffield Ted Wannell, Assistant Director, Labour and
Household Surveys Analysis Division Nancy Darcovich, Assistant Director, Health
Statistics Division replaced Mario Bédard The executive will also look for another STC
representative to replace Jeffrey Smith Nicole Doyle has been invited to the last EAC as a
guest EAC will also look at changes to membership over
time since there will be quite a few changes in the next five years.
Minutes from the EAC committee
Education Committee Jennifer Adam has replaced Mary
McLeod on the Education Committee Sharon Neary has resigned from the
Education Committee and is replaced by Jean Blackburn
The committee met in September 2007 and will meet again in Fall 2008 to discuss needs related to Colleges
Minutes from the Education Committee
DLI COLLECTION
The regular updates to the collection for 2006 census Geography and 2006 Census, Postal codes files, CCHS files, etc…
1986 and 1981 census basic summary tables (BSTs) – 1971 and 1976 will be coming later.
Presently working with International Trade Division to identify what could be made available (presentation on this topic this afternoon)
Input-Output tables have been added to the collection
DLI COLLECTION
See additions and changes to the FTP collectionMirror site at the University of Albert
aPlus other surveys not from Statistics
CanadaDFO – Catch and Effort Data (Fisheries and
Oceans)Youth Smoking 2004Canadian Addiction Survey
DLI COLLECTION
Other initiative:Landings Data from Citizenship
and Immigration CanadaWorking group in Statistics
Canada is exploring access of PUMF from longitudinal files
PRESENT PRIORITIES Annual Reports
The 06/07 Annual Report has been sent to all Library Directors and to DLI contacts
Also distributed to all STC Directors The 07/08 Annual Report will be sent out
by end of June 2008
DLI Update Has been translated Should be released in May Looking for articles for the next one
PRESENT PRIORITIES DDI – Data Documentation Initiative
Nesstar and the best practice document on Web
Accessible at www62.statcan.ca Password required for accessing the data Now available on Nesstar:
CTUMS from 2001 - 2007 Census of Population 1996 Public Service Employee Opinion Survey, 2002
and 2005 Residential Telephone Service Survey, 2004-
2005 Youth Smoking Survey, 2002
Statistics Canada best practices document relating to tagging files based on DDI version 1-3
PRESENT PRIORITIES
Compleat Survival Kit
DLI Site Interface plus all documentation in background on IMDB
Bridging IMBD to DDI and DDI to IMDB
PRESENT PRIORITIES DLI Contacts and Designates Survey
Thanks to everyone that participated Gaëtan will be doing the analysis Results will be shared with everyone
Repsonse rates: English Contacts 52 French Contacts 14 Total 66
English Designates 24 French Designates 07 Total 31
Overall Response Rate: 82 % Contacts: 92% Designates: 67%
Great Announcement
COPUL is pleased to announced that two Outstanding Contribution Awards for 2008: Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta
Many contributions through ACCOLEDS Gwen Bird, Simon Fraser University
For her services as the COPPUL representative on the CRKN Negotiations Resource Team
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