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Hi Oliver, Hello colleagues,<br><br>
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I have read the minutes of your meeting at ZUMA with interest. <br><br>
As you say, there is still a lack of shared concepts for formal
description the various kinds of comparative studies the relationships
between them. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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Best wishes<br><br>
Reto Hadorn<br>
SIDOS<br>
Switzerland<br><br>
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At 21.10.2004, Oliver Watteler wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi!<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <font color="#FF0000">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</font>. 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.<br><br>
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<br>
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.<br><br>
Greetings from Cologne,<br>
yours Oliver.<br><br>
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