[DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

[Wendy Thomas]

Hi Rob,

I'm wondering if it would be ok to repost your question and Arofan's 
response on the DDI Users list. I think there are others interested in 
this and we would like to get more activity on that list. The SRG list is 
the internal working list for the Technical Implementation Committee. 
We're not concerned if you care to lurk here, but it is a lot of interal 
back and forth and we do use it as if it were a closed list. The members 
of the SRG are all on the DDI-users list and respond there to questions 
that are raised.

Wendy


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Rob Grim wrote:

> 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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