[DDI-CDG] Yesterday's minutes

[Atle.Alvheim at nsd.uib.no]

In the Nesstar/Madiera Publisher you can define your controlled vocabs
You can also refer to what I (adopting from something Wendy wrote once) call
an external resource by ordinary web references. The Publisher employs a
template, which is a configuration of elements and vocabularies. CESSDA 
have defined a common template, recommended for the European archives.

Atle

Sitat Joachim Wackerow <wackerow at zuma-mannheim.de>:

> Hi Oliver
> 
> re: classifications
> 
> 
> Controlled vocabularies will be one of the key concepts at the 
> comparison of studies. These controlled vocabularies could be used on 
> the different levels of comparison. The DDI should be flexible and 
> extensible. Thus we would need external classification schemes to store 
> controlled vocabularies in a structural way. By this means we could 
> machine process these external ressources. For example a reference to an 
> external occupation classification scheme on the variable level (as 
> ISCO-88) in a PDF file is indeed an additional information (possible 
> with DDI 2.0). Furthermore it would be desirable to process this 
> information by programs. For this goal it would be necessary to 
> represent the occupation classification scheme according to a general 
> XML classification scheme (DTD or XML schema). Then it would be possible 
> for example to point into the external XML document to a specific 
> occupation code (to pull out further information). One available XML 
> classification scheme is CLASET.
> 
> Achim
> 
> 
> Oliver Watteler wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody!
> > 
> > Yesterday's minutes are online. There is just one point I did not really 
> > understand and which is posed as a question in the paper: what was meant 
> > by the classification scheme mentioned?
> > Achim and Wendy, you said something about this. Maybe you could explain 
> > this briefly, so I can change the minutes at this point.
> > 
> > To structure the gathering of of information for our two lists I would 
> > suggest that I set up a document that is structured along the phases of 
> > the survey life cycle. This way we would have a temporal aid for 
> > structuring the situations and the elements of possible comparision.
> > Would this be helpful?
> > 
> > Greetings from Cologne,
> > Oliver.
> > 
> 
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