[DDI-CDG] Proposal

[Oliver Watteler]

Hi!

In mid-September I informed you that Achim Wackerow (ZUMA), Meinhard 
Moschner (ZA) and I were going to meet in order to discuss the aims of 
this group. We came up with a draft proposal that has to be seen as 
starting point for further discussion. I also include a protocol of our 
meeting which reflects some of  thoughts on comparative data.

The cooperation with MetaDater is a crucial issue. This proposal is not 
intended to boost a parallel development on the DDI side, but since 
MetaDater's originale plan incorporates the aim to feed information to 
the DDI, we should set up a communication chanel between the two. I will 
be at the meeting of DDI's Structural Reform Group in Ann Arbor and will 
give a brief introduction into what MetaDater is heading for, because 
there are still people in the Alliance who haven't heard of it so far. 
Since the MetaDater data model is not finished yet, I will not talk 
about this though. But as I have pointed out to Uwe before, it is of 
vital interst to some of the DDI Alliance members to have the standard 
expanded toward the mark up of comparative data and they will not wait 
for MetaDater. Maybe one way of dealing with the different project 
speeds is that the Structural Reform Group feeds back their ideas of a 
data model to MetaDater so that this project can check whether the two 
models go together well. This will probably be a joint effort with good 
results.

Please go through the two papers and let the group know what you think 
about them. I suggest that you make proposals for changes of the actual 
proposal to the group and we will then make them part
Mary Vardigan of ICPSR was confident that we can set up aweb-space for 
the different DDI subgroups. In Ann Arbor I will also get in touch with 
members of the Complex File Group, as far as any of them will 
participate in the meeting.

Greetings from Cologne,
yours Oliver.

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