[DDI-CDG] Proposal

[Reto Hadorn]

Hi Oliver, Hello colleagues,


I have read the minutes of your meeting at ZUMA with interest.

As you say, there is still a lack of shared concepts for formal description 
the various kinds of comparative studies the relationships between them.

Let me put an accent on 'shared'. Actually, there are a lot more documents 
around in the MetaDater project, which aim at defining a vocabulary for the 
various kinds of datasets involved and their relationships. Perhaps you can 
manage to get more information, working in the data archive managing the 
project. You can also establish direct contacts with other MetaDater 
partners working on the issue. There should be some more advanced papers or 
ideas available than the paper form January 2003.

Stabilising a conceptual map for the work done while managing a repeated 
comparative study is not a simple process; it involves a lot of 
communication, explanation, criticism and re-elaboration. If the 
DDI-Alliance subgroup and the staff working on the MetaDater project have a 
chance to do this now, we avoid later discussions on already rigidified 
conceptions.


Best wishes

Reto Hadorn
SIDOS
Switzerland







At 21.10.2004, Oliver Watteler wrote:
>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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