[DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

[Rob Grim]

Dear SRG-Members,

First, I am not sure if this is the right place for my questions, but this
list, which I subscribed to this week, seems more active than the regular
DDI-userslist. 

I have a to deliver a presentation next week in Prague at a data workshop
for a consortium of economic research libraries (Nereus:
http://www.nereus4economics.info/members.html).

One basic idea behind the presentation is that we need to get information
specialists started in European Research Libraries with describing economic
research datasets. I'll argue in this presentation for using DDI 3.0. to
this aim. I have a few questions on which I hope to find some support. 

1. One of my arguments is that DDI 3.0 is machine actionable compared to DDI
2.0. I have been asked to present a clear example for this argument. 
Can someone point me to an example (preferably with code) that illustrates
just this point.  
Note: we start describing our research datasets with DDI-lite and DC-alike
fields. The example therefore doesn't need to be an advanced application.

2. For coding our minimal set in DDI 3.0 I'd like to have aka 'stylesheet
based HTML-form' in which information specialists can enter the information
for the DDI-fields/attributes that I want to register. Behind the scene need
to be of course our DDI 3.0 XML-schemas. Is anyone aware of such a tool, and
if yes, willing to share some code here to provide a clear example of how
things might look in an everyday world of the information specialist. If
this is not already available it would be a good thing to develop this kind
of tools, right? 


Your reaction is appreciated.


Kind Regards,


Rob Grim 



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R.T.A.M.(Rob)Grim
Research Data Specialist
Library and IT Services
Room L216

Tilburg University
PO box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
T: 0031 13 466 2619
F: 0031 13 466 3375
M: rob.grim at uvt.nl
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