[DDI-SRG] Working group topics

[Mary Vardigan]

These are great suggestions, thanks.

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Thomas [mailto:wlt at pop.umn.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:20 PM
To: Mary Vardigan
Cc: TIC list
Subject: Working group topics

Mary,

Two topics came up during our bug review that involve new features and 
call for more comprehensive develop i.e. working groups.

The first is Archive Management Information. We've talked about this 
before when creating the Archive module. The intent of this management 
piece would be to identify those generic management features that one 
might want to keep attached to metadata during its lifetime within a 
specific archive. It needs to be developed to address a wide range of 
needs from different sizes and different types of organizations and so
any 
working group needs to have broad representation or at minimum to gather

information from a broad range of organizations. As DDI starts being
used 
by different organizations (archives, producers, registries etc.) it
seems 
a good time to start addressing this.

The second address Quality Issues in data collection, processing,
analysis 
via registries from any source (people, registries, administrative).
We've 
talked about this a bit in means of collecting paradata in surveys but 
quality is an issue in survey data, register data, administrative data, 
etc. We think a working group composed of people familier with different

types of data collection and analysis processes could examine what
common 
issues and information as well as what additional pieces of information 
are unque to sepecific sources, data collection practices, or analysis.

We assumed that part of the Expert Committee meeting will be directed 
towards identifying new working groups and wanted you to have time to 
think about these two areas.

Wendy





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