Membership Documents
  • Bylaws
  • Charter
  • Join the DDI Alliance
  • Membership Form (PDF)
 Alliance Structure
  • Member Institutions
  • Expert Committee
  • Steering Committee
  • Committee Meeting Minutes
 Publications
  • General Brochure
  • Newsletter
  • Reports
    • Annual Report 2006 (PDF)
    • Annual Report 2005 (PDF)
    • Annual Report 2004 (PDF)
    • Strategic Plan, 2007 and Beyond (PDF)

 Publications & Presentations
 Projects Using the DDI
 DDI Users' Listserv
 Getting Started with the DDI
 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
 DDI Logo

 Document Type Definition (DTD)
 XML Schema (XSD)
 DDI Lite (Recommended Elements)
 Version Control for DTD
 Information on DTD Elements (DDI Tag Library)

 Mapping to Other Metadata Standards
  • Dublin Core
  • Recommended Fields (CESSDA) (PDF)
 Related Tools
  • Software/Tools
  • XML/XSLT

Join the DDI Alliance

Membership in the Alliance is open to for-profit or not-for-profit educational, commercial, or governmental organizations that want to have a voice in the decision-making process for the standard. Members are entitled to send one representative to meetings of the new DDI Expert Committee. Rules and guidelines for the Alliance are delineated in a Charter.

This new arrangement is designed to provide more flexibility for the DDI effort and to ensure that DDI stakeholders have a say in the direction that the specification takes. Terms of the charter specify that each member institution may send one representative to meetings of the newly established Expert Committee, the group that will directly develop and provide stewardship for the DDI specification. This Committee is intended to be a group of technical professionals with the expertise and interest necessary to contribute to the effort and to weigh in on decisions concerning the future of the DDI.

For more information on joining this effort, please contact the DDI Secretariat, which is housed at ICPSR, at: secretariat@ddialliance.org. Our membership form (PDF 56K) is also available.