Knut Wenzig has been working on the data and metadata management team in the Research Data Center SOEP since February. Knut has a Diplom degree in social sciences and worked previously in the National Educational Panel Survey (NEPS, University of Bamberg), where he was responsible for documentation and jointly responsible for development of a metadata system. His main field of interest is in metadata-driven data processing and structured documentation based on the “DDI Lifecycle” standard.