[DDI-ADG] minutes, DDI-ADG conference call 8/2/05

Tue Aug 2 12:42:50 EDT 2005

and I am...insanely jealous that is :-)   wendy

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Miller, Kenneth P wrote:

> Hi
>
> The following are possible candidates for date stamping, since they
> contain a URI. Default in majority of cases is probably the <prodDate>
> of the xml, but do they need an override?
>
> 1.1  citation? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, MARCURI)
> 1.1.4.1  distrbtr* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, abbr, affiliation, URI)
>
> 1.1.4.2  contact* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, affiliation, URI, email)
>
> 1.1.5  serStmt? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, URI)
> 1.1.8  holdings* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, location, callno, URI,
> media)
> 1.4  docSrc* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, MARCURI)
> 2.2.1.1  keyword* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, vocab, vocabURI)
> 2.2.1.2  topcClas* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, vocab, vocabURI)
> 2.2.3.3.2  concept (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, vocab, vocabURI)
> 2.4.1.1  accsPlac* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, URI)
> 2.4.2.1  confDec? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, required, formNo, URI)
> 2.4.2.2  specPerm? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, required, formNo, URI)
> 3.0  fileDscr* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, URI, sdatrefs, methrefs,
> pubrefs, access)
>
> 4.3.16  stdCatgry* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, date, URI)
>
> 4.3.17.2  catStat* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, type, URI, methrefs,
> wgtd, wgt-var, weight, sdatrefs)
> 4.3.23  varFormat? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, type, formatname,
> schema, category, URI)
> 4.3.24  geoMap* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, URI, mapformat, levelno)
> 4.4.11  purpose? (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, sdatrefs, methrefs,
> pubrefs, URI)
> 5.0  otherMat* (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, type, level, URI)
>
> Real reason for email is of course to make you insanely jealous by
> including a holiday photo of where we were staying.
>
> Best regards ken
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ddi-adg-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu
> [mailto:ddi-adg-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Katherine
> McNeill-Harman
> Sent: 02 August 2005 17:17
> To: ddi-adg at icpsr.umich.edu
> Subject: [DDI-ADG] minutes, DDI-ADG conference call 8/2/05
>
> Following are brief minutes from today's conference call (let me know
> any
> corrections that need to be made); J, please make note of action item #4
>
> for which we volunteered you.
>
> Minutes
> DDI Aggregate Data, Geography & Time Working Group
> August 2, 2005, 11am-12pm U.S. EDT
> Present: Sanda Ionescu, Kate McNeill-Harman (minutes), Ken Miller, Wendy
>
> Thomas, Mary Vardigan
>
> Action Items:
> 1. Kate will forward to the SRG (addressed to Oliver Watteler) the time
> method definitions she gathered for their use in creating the controlled
>
> vocabulary.  She will remind them to include time method indicators for
> stand-alone data files that might not be considered comparative data,
> and
> offer our group's help on this if needed.
> 2. Kate will try to locate an ISO (or other) standard for describing
> frequencies.
> 3. Wendy and Sanda will review the DDI and pull out a list of elements
> with
> date stamps.
> 4. J should summarize the time decisions to date in a spreadsheet
> (similar
> to the one for geography), looking at the structure outlined in the
> TemporalCoverage section of the "reusable classes" sheet of the
> spreadsheet, DDI-Version3-SRG_TagNames.xls.  This should be done this
> week
> in order to provide time for review and comment before the next meeting.
>
> Minutes:
> The group continued the discussion of time method.  It was indicated
> that
> the Comparative Data Group will be developing suggested controlled
> vocabulary for time method.  Members agreed to send that group the
> information gathered thus far on definitions for them to incorporate,
> emphasizing their need to include aspects of time method that may not
> refer
> to families of datasets.
>
> Members then discussed the role of administrative dates and how those
> should relate to the content-related dates discussed thus far.  This
> included a discussion of the role of versions.  Wendy reported that the
> SRG
> will be working on this.
>
> It was also agreed that it would be helpful to review how dates are used
>
> throughout the DDI.  For example, it might be helpful to have date
> stamps
> in multiple other elements to serve as placeholders for authors to
> remind
> them that they might want to indicate the date aspect of a particular
> element.   Wendy and Sanda volunteered to do this.
>
> Members agreed to have frequency as a strongly-typed variable with a
> controlled vocabulary.  Kate will try to locate an ISO (or other)
> standard
> for describing frequencies.  It was agreed that an "other" option should
> be
> provided in case the study has a frequency not provided by the given
> choices.  It was mentioned that frequency could apply to groups of
> studies
> (e.g. a periodic survey that is done annually), a single study (a time
> series with annual data), or a variable (a data set with annual data for
>
> some variables and quarterly data for others).  Therefore it was
> mentioned
> that frequency may be helpful as a reusable class that could be applied
> at
> the variable level as well.
>
> The group agreed that next week should be the last phone conference to
> discuss time, after which (or even starting in the next meeting, if
> possible) they would move onto aggregate data.  In order to do this, J
> will
> need to incorporate today's and previous time discussions into a
> spreadsheet (similar to the one for geography), looking at the structure
>
> outlined in the TemporalCoverage section of the "reusable classes" sheet
> of
> the spreadsheet, DDI-Version3-SRG_TagNames.xls.  The group will then
> review
> this, and the date stamps, at the next meeting, and make final decisions
> on
> time.
>
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