[DDI-SRG] Examples for candidate draft version or schemas for public review version?

Joachim Wackerow joachim.wackerow at gesis.org
Sat Sep 29 05:26:08 EDT 2007 

Yes, the releases should be stored at sourcefourge and linked by the DDI 
Alliance web site.

My understanding is now, that at sourceforge following important 
releases are available:

Sourceforge SVN directory for web browser access:
http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/releases/

FinalsForPublicComment.zip
http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/releases/FinalsForPublicComment.zip
including the documentation and an extra zip file with the schemas

3_0_CR_06_22_2007.zip
http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/releases/3_0_CR_06_22_2007.zip
including the documentation and the schemas

?? But what is the difference to DDI_3.0_Part_IVB_XML_Schemas_cr.zip ??


I would strongly opt for the future that structured, consistent, and 
somewhat self-explaining file names are chosen for the releases, and not 
a different naming system for each release.

Suggestion:
just documentation
DDI_<VERSION_NUMBER>_<DATE_IN_ISO_FORMAT>_Documentation.zip
just schemas
DDI_<VERSION_NUMBER>_<DATE_IN_ISO_FORMAT>_XMLSchema.zip
both documentation and schemas
DDI_<VERSION_NUMBER>_<DATE_IN_ISO_FORMAT>_Documentation_XMLSchema.zip

DDI
It should say what it is.

VERSION_NUMBER
Full version number as in the schemas.

DATE_IN_ISO_FORMAT
The date as an additional indicator to differentiate between 
sub-releases or to indicate just the date.
The differentiation between sub-releases should be perhaps better done 
in a suffix to the version number itself also in the schemas. Otherwise 
keeping track of valid instance according to which schemas can be a pain.
The date should be in ISO format. ISO has two important properties: They 
can be globally understood easier than the local date formats and 
filenames with ISO data parts are sorted in the right order in a file list.

Example for candidate draft version:
DDI_3_0_CR_2007-06-22_Documentation_XMLSchema.zip

Additionally the directory structure of the ZIP file should be always 
the same and unzip in a directory with the same base name as the zip 
file itself like:

DDI_3_0_CR_2007-06-22_XMLSchema_Documentation
   00readme.txt
   Documentation
   XMLSchema

A readme file should be included with a very short description what DDI 
is and the URL of the DDI Alliance.

Achim

Mary Vardigan wrote:
> Could someone help with the correct dates? Is this right?
> 
> Version 3.0 Public Release Version (January 2007)
> Version 3.0 Candidate Release Version (July 2007)
> 
> Mary 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy Thomas [mailto:wlt at pop.umn.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:57 PM
> To: Mary Vardigan
> Cc: Pascal Heus; Joachim Wackerow; DDI Technical Implementation
> Committee; Mary Vardigan
> Subject: Re: [DDI-SRG] Examples for candidate draft version or schemas
> for public review version?
> 
> probably a good idea. Basically we should always link to the offical
> copy which is the one on sourceforge.
> 
> wendy
> 
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mary Vardigan wrote:
> 
>> Should we start referencing DDI Version 3 sourceforge versions on this
> 
>> page so that we have links to the Public Release and Candidate Release
> 
>> and they are clearly shown as distinct?
>>
>> http://www.ddialliance.org/dtd/index.html
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Pascal Heus [mailto:pascal.heus at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:42 PM
>> To: Joachim Wackerow
>> Cc: Mary Vardigan; DDI Technical Implementation Committee; Wendy 
>> Thomas; Mary Vardigan
>> Subject: Re: [DDI-SRG] Examples for candidate draft version or schemas
> 
>> for public review version?
>>
>>
>> Achim:
>> the schemas are available on sourceforge in SVN at (link available 
>> from welcome page of http://snipurl.com/ddihelp site):
>> http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/
>> re
>> leases/
>> and
>> http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/
>> sc
>> hema/
>>
>> *P
>>
>> Joachim Wackerow wrote:
>>
>> 	Wendy and Mary,
>>
>> 	OK, so we don't have valid examples according to the candidate
> draft
>> 	version available (what I assumed).
>>
>> 	But we should have a download link of the public review schemes,
> so
>> 	somebody can look at the examples on the DDI web site together
> with 
>> the
>> 	related schemas. I didn't find the pr zip file at the DDI web
> site 
>> nor
>> 	at sourceforge CVS nor SVN.
>> 	http://ddi-alliance.cvs.sourceforge.net/ddi-alliance/ddi/w3c/
>>
>> http://ddi-alliance.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ddi-alliance/DDI-TIC/3/
>> re
>> leases/
>>
>> 	The public review release was finished at the beginning of
> February.
>> 	I think, until the publication of DDI 3 (and probably also
> further), 
>> the
>> 	public review version schemas should be available as download at
> the 
>> DDI
>> 	web site and also available at sourceforge.
>>
>> 	Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> 	Achim
>>
>> 	Mary Vardigan wrote:
>>
>>
>> 		I think Sanda did update her examples, but I don't have
> them. Sorry.
>> 		Mary
>>
>> 		-----Original Message-----
>> 		From: Wendy Thomas [mailto:wlt at pop.umn.edu]
>> 		Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:29 AM
>> 		To: Joachim Wackerow
>> 		Cc: DDI Technical Implementation Committee; Mary
> Vardigan
>> 		Subject: Re: [DDI-SRG] Examples for candidate draft
> version or 
>> schemas
>> 		for public review version?
>>
>> 		I know that Sanda was working on updating her PR
> versions to CD 
>> version
>> 		but don't know if they were posted. I'm copying this to
> Mary to see 
>> if
>> 		she knows as Sanda is out of town.
>>
>> 		Wendy
>>
>>
>> 		On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Joachim Wackerow wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 			On the users list it is asked for valid DDI 3
> examples.
>> 			Do exist valid examples according the candidate
> draft version?
>> 			If not we can point to the examples according
> the public review
>> 			version on the DDI Alliance web site. But I
> cannot find any 
>> download
>> 			for the public review version schemas at the DDI
> site nor at
>>
>> 		sourceforge.
>>
>>
>> 			Does anybody know a download link?
>>
>> 			Achim
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> 
> Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
> Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
> Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
> University of Minnesota
> 50 Willey Hall
> 225 19th Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55455


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