[DDI-SRG] DDI Profile for applications

[Wendy Thomas]

I'd like to capture as a documentation bug if it really is one. See the 
content in DDI 3.0 Part II User Guide section 2.9 lines 766-793 to see if 
this is captured sufficiently before filing a bug.

wendy


On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, arofan.gregory wrote:

> Pascal:
>
> This was the original intent of profiles, at least in part - I don't think
> we need to file a bug on this. I don't think this drives any changes to the
> schemas at all (unless we find that we missed something when we did the
> original design).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Arofan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ddi-srg-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Pascal Heus
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:15 AM
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> Subject: [DDI-SRG] DDI Profile for applications
>
> All:
> This is just an idea regarding DDI Profile but I'm thinking that
> profiles could also be used by application to describe the set of DDI 3
> elements they can consume/process or to accompany instances they
> produce. This could be useful when you need for example submit DDI to a
> service or a tools and need to prepare your metadata ((this becomes a
> bit the equivalent oa WSDL for DDI), to know what is the potential
> content to the tool output as you may want to further process it, or
> possibly for application to application metadata exchange. I don't think
> this has a direct impact on the schema (though we may come up with
> additional elements/attributes for machine processing), this idea could
> simply be integrated in the documentation. Will also file this in Mantis.
> best
> *P
>
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