[DDI-SRG] Bugs mentioned in DDI Best Practices

[Wendy Thomas]

I should have caught and entered but I will double check from your list

wendy


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Mary Vardigan wrote:

> In going through the Best Practice documents, I noted annotations about
> the following bugs. Not sure if they are already entered in Mantis.
> -Mary
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> (1) The versioning practices and structure of the maintaining
> organization should be recorded in the description of the Organization
> within the Organization scheme. Currently, there is no specific location
> or element for the information. It is strongly recommended that a Note
> of type VersionStructure be created within the description of the
> Organization. All DDI Instances require a reference to this organization
> which insures that information on the version structure will be relayed
> to the end user.
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> (2) Users need to know when major reviews and versioning take place and
> when they will be available through publication. Both versioning
> schedules and a publication schedule (if different from the versioning
> schedule) should be provided in the metadata. There is currently not a
> specific location for this information in the resource package, and so
> it should be included in the abstract.
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> (3) When an instance is published for the purpose of reuse or reference,
> the publisher should indicate this as a means of ensuring the user of
> the intent to persist the metadata. This is currently not an available
> feature of DDI and should be listed in the Purpose statement of the
> Resource Package (see discussion of isPublished in discussion section
> below). A bug has been filed on the current DDI structure to add a
> "final" flag to differentiate between a set of metadata packaged for
> publication (actually published) as opposed to packaged for internal
> development. Discussion focused on both the desirability of such a flag
> and the fact that what it was really indicating was whether the packaged
> metadata had been officially published. A comment will be filed on this
> bug suggesting that a more accurate flag would isPublished with a
> Boolean value of true indicating that the metadata has been officially
> published and that any future changes would be reflected in a version
> change.
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> (4)  If a study contains a standard weight this should be entered as a
> numeric value in weighting. It is to be expected that future versions of
> the standard will have a machine-actionable home for the standard
> weight.
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> Mary Vardigan
>
> Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
> Research (ICPSR)
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> Phone: 734-615-7908
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> Fax: 734-647-8200
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>

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