[DDI-ADG] Comments

[Mary Vardigan]

Hello, everyone. Thanks for participating in the phone call -- it was a 
good start.

I wanted to make the comment that it might be useful to have ALL of the 
elements and attributes pertaining to geography anywhere in the Version 3.0 
"candidates" pulled together and grouped according to what module or class 
they are in. That is, we have been looking at the Universe reusable class, 
but I see, for example, that geoMap, which used to be a variable-level 
element, appears now as a "type" under Other Materials. Plus, there is 
"geographic" (Y/N) and "geographicVocabulary" under Variable in the Logical 
Products section. Also, it looks as if there is a new "label" element under 
Variable Group, Variable, Category Group, and Category that has attributes 
of country, language, time, and date.

I don't want to get hung up by considering too much at one time, but having 
such a list would help me in decision-making and figuring out relationships 
among elements and attributes. Wendy, would you be willing to pull together 
a list like this? You know the candidates the best.

Also, do we want to create a Web site that we could use to post this and 
other documents, such as the use cases?

Again, thanks to all.

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