[DDI-SRG] minor time line revision (fwd)

[Wendy Thomas]

Just forwarding my response to Mary's question about the timing of work by 
the controlled vocabulary group. If any of this is inaccurate, let me 
know.

wendy

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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:19:09 -0600 (CST)
From: Wendy Thomas <wlt at pop.umn.edu>
To: Mary Vardigan <vardigan at umich.edu>
Subject: RE: minor time line revision

Mary

The way we are dealing with controlled vocabularies is as follows. Controlled 
vocabularies are of two types.

1 - Internally defined controlled vocabularies such as Identification type 
"Maintainable, Versionable, Identifiable" or Group grid definitions
2 - Externally defined controlled vocabularies

Type 2 will have a structure that allows you to put in content and declare the 
contolled vocabulary that is published using genericode structure. DDI (along 
with anyone else) can publish a controlled vocabulary. We assume that DDI will 
have a set based on the work the Controlled vocabulary group is working on. 
Ideally, DDI supporting institutions would create their own by importing a base 
DDI structure and then adding to it or disallowing items. This would support 
comparability between organizations while allowing them to provide organization 
specific content.

So the big thing is to have the elements requiring the preferred option of a 
controlled vocabulary. We would hope that publicaiton of the main list you are 
working on would take place in conjunction with the publication of DDI 3.0 so 
that people have controlled vocabulary lists available for use. In effect this 
takes some of the pressure off you and also allows for a controlled vocabulary 
creation and maintanence process that is not tied to the strict constraints of 
the schema development and versioning.

If this isn't clear, I'm working from home 651-645-7581

Wendy


On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Mary Vardigan wrote:

> So does this mean that the controlled vocabularies group should be
> finished as much as possible for the February release?
> 
> Mary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy Thomas [mailto:wlt at pop.umn.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:36 AM
> To: Mary Vardigan
> Subject: minor time line revision
> 
> Mary,
> 
> We had planned to get CR-3 out today and then do a CR-4 in another 3-4
> weeks. A number of last minute bugs were files by TIC members and a few
> of these are still being nailed down. Given that and Arofan's travel
> schedule we are doing the following to ensure that the later parts of
> the timeline are still viable:
> 
> 1) The optional CR-4 has been dropped
> 2) CR-3 will include all of the recent bugs and be published on Feb 11
> 3) Proposed major changes (datatype stuff, physicaldatastructure as
> scheme, and propietary data storage structure) will be sent out to TIC
> prior to Feb 11 for final review by individuals.
> 4) All changes (which we believe will be minor in nature) after Feb 11
> publication will be done in real time (we discuss on TIC call, decide,
> and update schema during call)
> 
> We decided we preferred have CR-3 contain all the significant changes
> we'd discussed in Dagstuhl and since rather than have to do a CR-4
> 
> Wendy
> 
> 
> 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
>

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