[DDI-SRG] What we promised in terms of Proof of Concept

[Mary Vardigan]

Thanks for the very helpful call this morning. In looking back to our
Montreal meeting minutes, this was the text of the resolution agreed to:
 
Resolved: That DDI 3.0 be moved to Candidate Release status. A set of
production use cases will be identified, involving each of the major
features of DDI 3.0 throughout the lifecycle. These cases will result in
documentation of each case and accompanying DDI 3.0 XML instances. In
combination with tools implementation of the standard, these cases will
be used to identify bugs and issues for fixing, and will also provide
the basis for evaluation of the standard. No new features will be added
during this period. A vote as called for by the existing bylaws will be
taken at the end of the Candidate Release period, which will last no
longer than 9 months.

We also had suggestions for use cases in these areas:

Suggested use cases, of which we need around 10-15, include:

*	A demonstration that 3.0 does what 2.0 does. For this we may be
able to get output from the IHSN toolkit.

*	Instrumentation - 2000 Census questionnaire

*	Concepts - Statistics Canada IMDB

*	Comparison - GESIS-ZUMA

*	Geography - IPUMS

*	Complex Files 

*	Resource package

*	Question bank

I will start a list that groups the implementations and use cases we
have into categories and you can refine it.
 
Mary
 
Mary Vardigan
Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR)
Phone: 734-615-7908
Fax: 734-647-8200
 
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