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

[ekkehard mochmann]

Dear colleagues,

we are about to conclude our EU funded project "Network of Economic and 
Social Science Infrastructures in Europe" (NESSIE). In this project we 
developed a pretty comprehensive list of comparative studies relevant 
for different disciplines- with focus on Europe. if you are interested 
in a more comprehensive list of comparative studies you may want to 
consult the NESSIE web page. There you may find some more relevant links 
and hints: http://www.nessie-essex.co.uk/dataResources.asp.

Best regards,

Ekkehard



Reto Hadorn schrieb:

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> Dear Oliver and colleagues,
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> 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.
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> You will find my comments included in your list, in the attachments.
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> Best wishes
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> Reto
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> At 29.04.2005, Oliver Watteler wrote:
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>> Dear CDG,
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>> 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:
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>> 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)?
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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?
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>> Have a nice week-end,
>> yours Oliver.
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>> P.S.: Wendy! Thanks for the information. I will send around your 
>> enhanced table next week.
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