[DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

[Janet Heslop]

Pascal,
Thank you for the additional information.
Janet


Janet Heslop
CISER, IT Associate Director
Cornell University
391 Pine Tree Road
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607)255-8531


-----Original Message-----
From: Pascal Heus [mailto:pascal.heus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:14 PM
To: Wendy Thomas
Cc: Janet Heslop; TIC list; Mary Vardigan
Subject: Re: [DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

Janet:
just to complement Wendy's inputs:
- The SurveyLang survey instrument (http://www.surveylang.org) I'm
working on with Jostein use an internal XML based on DDI 3.0 (so export
to DDI 3 will be possible).
- I'm also working on question bank for the International Household
Survey Network (http://www.surveynetwork.org) whose internal XML is
likewise based on DDI 3 (likewise, export to DDI 2 or 3 will be possible)
- I have recently received a new version of the metadata export tool for
CSPro (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/cspro/) that produces DDI 2
compliant metadata. Support for DDI 3 is planned (but I need to write
the CSPro-XML to DDI 3 transform). This will later on also be integrated
in the CSPro package.
I expect outputs for these projects to become available second half of
this year (SurveyLang is for 2010).
I'm also talking to other agencies interested in 3.0 but too early to
share info.
best
*P

Wendy Thomas wrote:
> Janet,
>
> This is what I have to date on the use of DDI 3.0. There are a number of 
> places currently reviewing it for use or doing internal development with 
> DDI 3.0 but nothing viewable. Given training, content development and 
> programming to put a new structure online, this is pretty good in less 
> than a year.
>
> Usage of DDI 3.0 (2009-01-28)
>
> ICPSR is using it in the sense that their database is DDI 3 complient.
> Export capabilities are not yet available but the display of variables in
> the new variables database will be DDI 3.
>
> There was a meeting on the usage of DDI in GESIS. They are currently in 
> the process of
> collecting information on the use of DDI 2 elements in the
> various GESIS areas and which elements of 3.0 are planned for usage.
>
> The Canadian RDC network DDI 3 material is only available within an RDC.
> This is also true of the IAB. Pascal and Jostein
> have just delivered on a project called SurveyLang which is DDI 3.0-based
> educational training. There is the LISS CentreData project we saw
> at Dagstuhl - the survey is online.
>
>
>
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