From vardigan at umich.edu Thu Feb 15 16:09:49 2007 From: vardigan at umich.edu (Mary Vardigan) Date: Thu Feb 15 16:09:55 2007 Subject: [DDI-ADG] FW: Results of DDI 3 vote Message-ID: <93111EED84D98E4C95F33D6114AB39680244B909@isr-mail2.ad.isr.umich.edu> ________________________________ From: Mary Vardigan Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:16 PM To: 'alliance-experts@icpsr.umich.edu'; alliance-steering@icpsr.umich.edu Subject: Results of DDI 3 vote Dear DDI Alliance Expert Committee Members, I am pleased to report that moving the DDI 3.0 specification to Public Review has been approved. The official votes cast were 18 Yes and 2 Not Yet, out of 29 eligible voters. This means that we can begin the two-month period for public comment now. Thanks to all who voted. There is still much to be done over the next two months. First, we need to announce the Public Review period in a variety of places, including the IASSIST list and the DDI Users list, which will happen shortly. It would also be good to contact specific lists that you yourselves are members of -- for example, the SAS/SPSS/Stata users groups and other software-related lists. We suggest the following informal text, which you should feel free to amend: *** For those of you working with social science data, there is an emerging standard called the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) that may be useful in your projects. DDI Version 3.0, based on XML Schemas, has just been released for public comment. You can find out more at: http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi3/. *** During these next two months, we urge you to continue to test and evaluate this new version of the DDI and to provide feedback and suggestions for changes (the Not Yet votes' comments emphasized the need for additional testing). The DDI 3 site at http://www.ddialliance.org/ddi3/ now has new tools, including a DDI 2 to 3 converter/viewer, as well as several markup examples that should facilitate assessment and testing of the specification. Please do take a tour of the page if you haven't already done so and start to learn more. To open up discussions related to DDI Version 3, you can use one of the new DDI-related forums specifically designed for this purpose -- see http://www.opendatafoundation.org/forums/ddi/. Our thanks go out to Pascal Heus of the Open Data Foundation who created the forums and the converter tool while in the throes of new fatherhood! Thanks also to the SRG for their tireless work in getting us to this stage and to all who are testing and creating examples. Looking forward to seeing all of you in May in Montreal. Regards, Mary Mary Vardigan Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Phone: 734-615-7908 Fax: 734-647-8200 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-adg/attachments/20070215/28191636/attachment.html