[DDI-SRG] DDI Agency pre-registration

[Joachim Wackerow]

Pascal,

I think, I didn't respond to that.

This are good news.
Yes, I think pre-assigning ID's to members of the Alliance would help to 
speed the process.

For GESIS I would think on gesis.de.ddi

But there is a German company which has the domain gesis.de. I know the 
DDI id is independent from domain names, but does that company see it in 
the same way? gesis.org has the suffix org, but is no international 
organization. Do you have any advise how to deal with that?

Achim

Pascal Heus wrote:
> All:
> I've been working with Mary and Arofan on proposal for the 
> implementation of a public registry for DDI agency identifiers. This is 
> actually not trivial and presents both technical and organizational 
> challenges. Since this need to be further reviewed and will take some 
> time to be implemented, we have decided to setup a web page for the 
> pre-registration of Agency identifiers at 
> http://tools.ddialliance.org/?lvl1=community&lvl2=agencyid
> 
> The rationale behind it is that there are organizations and individuals 
> that are producing DDI 3 today and they shouldn't have to wait to get an 
> official ID for their agency. The proposed scheme is based on format 
> similar to domain names but that do not change across time. the 
> structure is:
> [organization].[country].ddi
> - The [organization] part is typically the abbreviation of the agency
> - The [country] is the 2-letter country code or .org/.int for 
> international organizations (.com is not allowed).
> - The .ddi identifies this as an ID in the DDI registry to prevent 
> conflict with other registries or classifications.
> Few example: icpsr.us.ddi, odaf.org.ddi, ukda.uk.ddi
> More details on the format/rules are in the web page.
> 
> There is at this point no formal process associated with the attribution 
> of IDs (basically at our discretion at this time) and we cannot 
> guarantee 100% that the format will remain the same (but will likely 
> be). We feel however that it is urgent to move forward on this and would 
> rather provide a simple mechanism rather than wait and have 
> organizations make up their own IDs.
> 
> Could we add this as a topic for this week CC (that unfortunately I 
> can't join, but can talk later in the day) with the idea that, unless 
> there are strong objections, we move forward with this. We will then 
> include a short blurb in the upcoming DDI newsletter (next week) and 
> post announcements on various mailing lists. Suggestion/contributions 
> most welcomed. Should we pre-assign ID's to members of the Alliance?
> 
> thanks
> Pascal
> 
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