[DDI-CDG] ACTION

[Oliver Watteler]

Dear all,

unfortunately, you haven't heard from me in a while. Sorry for that, but we
have undergone a kind of internal revision by the German Federal Government.
Well, this is a reason but no excuse, as we say.

Two things need to be done urgently, since the IASSIST Conference is around
the corner. 
First, I would like you to send me answers to the three questions I posed in
January, which were the following:
1. Which comparative studies you are currently working with are supposed to
be documented with DDI?
2. Which topics do you want to be integrated in the DDI-standard?
3. Do we want an enhanced DTD or could we think of a meta-DTD, which works
as a kind of "parentheses" for single XML-documents of a study group or
family? (In German something can be a parentheses for subordinate things,
meaning that it holds them together. I could not think of an English
equivalent for this phrase.)

Second, I am preparing a draft of the scope paper we planned last year. This
will be closely related to the proposals of the other groups, the revision
maual and timeline drawn by the Alliance, and to the ideas disseminated by
Achim Wackerow, Meinhard Moschner and me.

Greetings from Cologne,
Oliver.

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