Using DDI 3.0 to Support Preservation, Management, Access, and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data
November 3 - 7, 2008
GESIS Workshop at the Leibniz Center for Informatics
Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
Course Instructors:
Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Wendy L. Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Joachim Wackerow (GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany)
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) has produced […]
May 21, 2008 — The Alliance for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is pleased to announce the official release of Version 3.0 of the DDI XML specification for documenting social science data. This long awaited version of the DDI represents a major advance by fully incorporating XML Schemas and moving to a data life cycle […]
The final version of the DDI 3.0 Schema (Candidate Release Version 3, dated 2008-04-01) is now available for download and review from this site:
http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi3/index.html
As a Proof of Concept to demonstrate the validity and usefulness of the proposed new version, several use cases and implementations are descrbed at:
http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi3/use-cases.html
The current timetable for publication of […]
Candidate Release Version 3 (CR3) is now available from the DDI Alliance Web site at: http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi3/index.html. The “Latest Release” link will take you to SourceForge for the actual download.
We are getting very close to having a final version of DDI 3.0 to vote on in April. The timetable for publication […]
This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. The OpenID Foundation was formed in early 2006 by seven community members with the goal of helping promote, protect and enabling the OpenID technologies and community. Today’s announcement marks a milestone in the maturity and impact that the […]
An interesting article from IBM Research that shows how to easily add eventing to XML-based Java applications with XMLBeans extensions:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmlbeanse/?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=B0201&ca=dnw-904
The DDI Foundation Tools Program (DDI-FTP) is pleased to announce the availability of a new web site dedicated to DDI Tools at http://tools.ddialliance.org
The site is intended for DDI users and developers and provides access to applications, software components, documentation, example files and XSL transformations that support the DDI-XML specification. It is also the home for […]
DDI, the Data Documentation Initiative, is the “codebook standard” for quantitative social datasets. This new briefing paper from the DataShare project explains the DDI as a form of metadata, how version 3 embraces a life-cycle approach to data management, and how the DDI could be exploited by OAI-compliant data repositories.
DDI and Institutional Repositories, by Luis […]
The DDI Foundation Tools Program has released two core packages based on the Apache XML Beans technology for the management of DDI-XML objects in the Java environment . The libraries can be downloaded at http://forge.opendatafoundation.org/gf/project/dditools/frs/
This initial version is available for all official versions of DDI 1/2.x and for the DDI 3.0 Candidate Release 2 (CR2).
XMLBeans […]
The UKDA Data Exchange Tools (DExT) initiative in collaboration with the Open Data Foundation has just released a new version of a Java package for reading SPSS data files and export metadata in DDI 2.0 and DDI 3.0 CR 2 formats. The library also allows for the export of the data in varous ASCII formats. […]
