[DDI-CDG] List of studies and examples of scenarios

[Reto Hadorn]

Dear Oliver and colleagues,


Thanks for your list of examples. I feel it is a good exercise to apply the 
rather abstract study and dataset typology to cases, which all have their 
specificity.

You will find my comments included in your list, in the attachments.


Best wishes

Reto




At 29.04.2005, Oliver Watteler wrote:
>Dear CDG,
>
>I am finally able to send out the two things we agreed on at the end of 
>our last conference call. We said that we will continue our work once we 
>get a hold of the draft for DDI 3, but this does not work. DDI's XML 
>developer needs our scenarios first to fill in some gaps. Well then, here 
>we go. I have attached the following documents:
>
>1. A list of "comparative" studies that also contains Reto's nomenclature 
>as far as I have understood it. Wendy has also drafted a list of 
>comparative studies in form of a table and I will fit "my" studies into 
>her list in order to get an overview of comparative or comparable surveys 
>that are out there.
>This list has to be enhanced by you. Are you interested in the 
>methodological information I used (mostly from the different web-sites)?
>
>2. Some examples of scenarios where information is being compared. When we 
>talked about those scenarios, my understanding was that we want to break 
>down the study life cycle phases to the working steps and do not want to 
>stay on the general level of theoretical or methodological comparison. We 
>want do go down to the single information level also to see what can 
>already be documented with the current DDI and what is still missing.
>I attached a list of four tables, which have to be read as follows. The 
>aim should be to come up with a complete description of a comparative 
>study’s life cycle that shows all working steps at a level where they 
>match information bits that in turn can be fit into DDI tags. Now, the 
>tables you see contain some of those single steps and not entire cycle 
>phase. Thus, my example 1 only talks about the agreement on questions that 
>serve as indicators. Of course phase 1, which is called “Concept” in the 
>DDI life cycle model, also implies the gathering of information (e.g. 
>literature), the drafting of hypothesis or the “assembly” of a 
>questionnaire. Those would be other working steps I could think of and 
>they too could be fit into tables.
>One thing that we do not want to do, I suppose, is to go through the 
>development process of DDI 1 once again and think of all those things that 
>could possibly be compared, but stick to the real world and think of the 
>information bits which are really held against each other.
>
>Talking to Meinhard about the examples I realized that this lengthy 
>explanation was necessary. Maybe it would also be useful to insert the 
>existing DDI tags that are useful for comparison into tables like the ones 
>presented. What do you think?
>The list of studies could be used to see how those studies could be marked 
>up with DDI (as has already been done in some case and has also been 
>discussed in the context of best practise examples).
>
>To talk about the time frame. We will meet in Edinburgh on May, 22nd. We 
>should organize at least one more confernece call before that and try to 
>come up with as many scenarios as possible. I will take up the job to 
>compile them afterwards. Any other things you can thinks of that need to 
>be done?
>
>Have a nice week-end,
>yours Oliver.
>
>P.S.: Wendy! Thanks for the information. I will send around your enhanced 
>table next week.
>
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