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

Tue Aug 2 12:46:13 EDT 2005

I'm jealous, too! Maybe we can all tag along to Brittany with you next year?

Mary

At 12:37 PM 8/2/2005, 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.
>
>___________________________________________
>Katherine McNeill-Harman
>Data Services Librarian
>Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>Cambridge, MA 02139
>mcneillh at mit.edu
>617-253-0787
>
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