From maryv at icpsr.umich.edu Wed Feb 18 14:49:03 2004 From: maryv at icpsr.umich.edu (Mary Vardigan) Date: Thu Feb 19 08:28:46 2004 Subject: [DDI-ADG] DDI Developments Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20040211164448.02922890@icpsr.umich.edu> Dear Expert Committee members, I hope you are all doing well as we near the end of February. This feels like such a long winter here in Michigan! There is a great deal of DDI activity to report: (1) Authoritative version of the DDI DTD. Mark Diggory has set up a Sourceforge site for the DDI project. The authoritative version of the specification will reside on the Sourceforge site, although the DDI Alliance site (www.ddialliance.org) will continue to serve as the distribution site. The Sourceforge site has excellent CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and issue tracking capabilities permitting tracking of revisions. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddi-alliance (2) Process for handling minor changes. The Steering Committee is authorized through the Alliance Bylaws to set up an expedited process for handling minor changes to the specification. We have designed such a process and also have created a form to facilitate the submission of all requests for changes to the DDI specification. The form (a Word template), which contains an explanation of the expedited process, is available at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/users/dtd/index.html (3) DDI Licensing. The consensus in the Steering and Expert Committees is that this is an important issue to address. Mark Diggory continues to pursue this and has identified some organizations to contact for legal advice. (4) IASSIST 2004 DDI sessions. Several sessions and workshops at the upcoming IASSIST meeting (May 25-28) in Madison, WI, will be devoted to the DDI. There will be two companion workshops on Tuesday, May 25, intended to provide both introductory instruction in understanding and using the DDI (morning) and more advanced training (afternoon). The morning workshop needs volunteers to act as roaming experts to help participants in hands-on markup exercises. If you are interested in helping, please contact Bill Block (block@hist.umn.edu). Also, Wendy Thomas and the Structural Reform Group are organizing a session about the Alliance and its activities. This session will feature speakers from the Structural Reform, Substantive Content, and Usability Working Groups. Wendy's description of the session can be viewed under the Structural Reform Group's forum on ezboard. IASSIST 2004 will also feature some sessions planned by individuals not on the Expert Committee. (5) SRG Workplan and timeline. The Structural Reform Group has worked extremely hard to prepare a detailed workplan with an associated timeline. The workplan and related notes are now available on ezboard under the Structural Reform Group's forum. Please post comments on ezboard or send them to ddi-srg@icpsr.umich.edu. The workplan will be condensed and posted on the DDI site in coming weeks. (6) Upcoming DDI meeting. The Expert Committee is scheduled to meet after IASSIST on Saturday, May 29, in Madison. This is Memorial Day weekend in the U.S., which may make attendance difficult for some, but we do encourage everyone to try to attend. More details about the agenda will be available in the spring. I will send another DDI Digest message soon to update everyone on specific projects of the various Working Groups. Regards, Mary Mary Vardigan Director, Collection Delivery Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) University of Michigan P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248 Phone: 734-615-7908 Fax: 734-647-8200 www.icpsr.umich.edu From ilona_e at uclink.berkeley.edu Fri Feb 27 19:40:32 2004 From: ilona_e at uclink.berkeley.edu (Ilona Einowski) Date: Mon Mar 1 13:13:03 2004 Subject: [DDI-ADG] Reports from Atle and Fred Message-ID: DDI Group members, As promised at the October 2003 meeting, Atle Alvheim submitted a piece on Geo-referencing and Fred Gey wrote about SDMX. Before we post these to the ezboard, I would like to submit them for your consideration. Comments should be sent to the entire group (ddi-adg@icpsr.umich.edu). Thank you for your attention, Ilona ____________________________________________________________________ Ilona Einowski ilona@ucdata.berkeley.edu Assistant Director, User Services Phone: (510) 642-6571 UC Data Archive& Technical Assistance Fax: (510) 643-8292 University of California, Berkeley http://ucdata.berkeley.edu 2538 Channing Way #5100 Berkeley, CA 94720-5100 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lion.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-adg/attachments/20040227/53c4e016/attachment.htm