[DDI-SRG] DDI 3.0

[Joachim Wackerow]

Janet,

Here are my two cents:

As you saw at the demo of Andias in Dagstuhl GESIS is working in the 
MISSY II project (based on DDI 3.0) on a custom DDI 3.0 editor and on a 
custom web visualization tool for the German Microcensus. The 
predecessor information system MISSY I (based on DDI 2.1) is available 
at (only German):
http://www.gesis.org/missy-test/
(the URL is misleading, it is a production site).

I'm working on a new version of a on-line tabulation system Exanda. The 
new version is based on DDI 3 documents and generates DDI 3 inline ncube 
documents on the fly. The user-interface and the processing of the 
metadata is internationalized. It is planned to present the new version 
at IASSIST. A old version is available (only in German) with the German 
Welfare Study:
http://exanda.zuma-mannheim.de/Study_Wohlfahrtssurvey/Form.html

Achim

Pascal Heus wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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>> 225 19th Avenue South
>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
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