[DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

[arofan.gregory]

Rob:

I hope all is well with you since we last saw you at Dagstuhl!

I will address the two points you raise below:

(1) Machine actionable: I think the best example of this is the use case we
are using to approve the candidate release, concerning the description of a
survey. The people working on this are the guys from a company called
Algenta, which is building a tool to read Blaise, CASES, and CSPro files in
and out, and to generate the DDI 3.0 XML. It also provides a flow-chart view
of the survey logic, and allows editing and click-throughs. I think their
beta release is sometime this spring, but I attach the set of screen-shots
we presented at Dagstuhl. If this would be useful to you, we can put you in
contact with the guys from Algenta, who I would imagine would be happy to
show you their example (Wendy has been working with them too, so maybe she
could add something here?)

(2) Tools: We don't have a forms-based editor for DDI 3.0 yet, but we do
have the DeXtris browser, which you can download and use. It comes with a
number of DDI 3.0 Public Comment-version examples, to be used if you are
online.

You can download the tool at:

http://www.opendatafoundation.org/tools/dextris/

This at least shows some of the basic search functionality for variables,
concepts, etc. on real-world examples.

We are working on other tools, but I don't know of any others which will be
ready soon.

Regards,

Arofan Gregory

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[mailto:ddi-srg-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Grim
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:33 AM
To: DDI-SRG at icpsr.umich.edu
Subject: [DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

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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