Forschungstreffen 16433
DDI Moving Forward: Improvement and Refinement of Selected Areas
( 23. Oct – 28. Oct, 2016 )
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Organisatoren
- Michelle Edwards (Cornell University, US)
- Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation - Tucson, US)
- Wendy Thomas (University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, US)
- Joachim Wackerow (GESIS - Mannheim, DE)
Kontakt
- Heike Clemens (für administrative Fragen)
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Background
The DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) metadata standard, originally created in 1995 to document social science research data, has in recent years become relevant to new user groups, including the official statistics and medical research communities. In order to respond to these new users, DDI is developing a model-based specification (DDI Version 4) that can be expressed in XML Schema, RDF-S/OWL, relational database schema, and program languages. Such a data model will make it easier to interact with other disciplines and other standards, to understand the specification, to develop and maintain it in a consistent and structured way, and to enable software development that is less dependent on specific DDI versions.
Throughout the past year, content modeling teams have been working virtually to model DDI 4 to ensure that it can document a broad spectrum of data. This year’s Dagstuhl “sprint” will focus creating re-usable multi-purpose documentation, controlled vocabularies, complex data capture and description, and funding proposals.
Goals
This workshop will extend and build upon the progress made during the past 3 years of development. The sprint will focus on four main areas of work:
Documentation: As DDI releases a first version of the Codebook Functional View to the community, documentation and documentation structure becomes essential for its successful implementation. The work during this week, will concentrate on developing both high-level and field-level documentation to assist archives, libraries, and statistical agencies, migrating from an older version of DDI to DDI 4.
Expansion of Data Capture and Description: More complex scenarios for data capture and data description will be explored.
Controlled Vocabularies: The development of the model will benefit from a closer working relationship with the Controlled Vocabularies Group as Controlled Vocabularies are used throughout the model.
Funding Opportunities: Explore opportunities and create documentation for potential funding proposals of the local, national, and international funders.
Results
- Develop a documentation structure which can be re-used for multiple purposes. Initial base content will be written that will support the needs of different user groups (i.e. technical perspective), applied usage in substantive content areas, etc. The modular form of the documentation will also provide the basis for training materials to be used by all DDI user communities.
- Controlled vocabularies will be created in the areas where a separation of a configurable set of allowed values from the specification make sense.
- The existing model on data capture and data description will be expanded for complex scenarios.
- Building blocks for funding proposals will be written.
Verwandte Seminare
- Forschungstreffen 07432: The Data Documentation Initiative [DDI] XML Standard: Support Preservation, Management, Access and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data (2007-10-23 - 2007-10-27) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 08452: The Data Documentation Initiative [DDI] XML Standard: Support Preservation, Management, Access & Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data (2008-11-02 - 2008-11-07) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 09442: The Data Documentation Initiative [DDI] XML Standard: Support Preservation, Management, Access & Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data (2009-10-25 - 2009-10-30) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 10432: The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) XML Standard: Using DDI 3 to Support Production, Management, Dissemination, and Preservation Systems for Data in the Social Sciences and Economics (2010-10-24 - 2010-10-29) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 11372: Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Web (2011-09-11 - 2011-09-16) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 12422: Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Linked Data Web (2012-10-14 - 2012-10-19) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 13432: Facilitating Process and Metadata-Driven Automation in the Social, Economic, and Behavioural Sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) (2013-10-20 - 2013-10-25) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 14422: DDI: Facilitating Process and Metadata-Driven Automation in the Social, Economic, and Behavioural Sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative (2014-10-12 - 2014-10-17) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 15423: DDI: Facilitating Process and Metadata-Driven Automation in the Social, Economic, and Behavioural Sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative (2015-10-11 - 2015-10-16) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 17433: DDI Moving Forward: Integration of Core Components / DDI-based Infrastructure Vision (2017-10-22 - 2017-10-27) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 18393: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) - Train the Trainers (2018-09-23 - 2018-09-28) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 19403: DDI 4 Core - Development of a Robust and Sustainable Model (2019-09-29 - 2019-10-04) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 21383: DDI Cross Domain Integration for FAIR Data Sharing across Discipline Boundaries (2021-09-19 - 2021-09-24) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 23393: DDI-CDI: Realising interoperable data services in the metadata ecosystem (2023-09-24 - 2023-09-29) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 24413: Aligning Technology Architectures with Cross-Domain Metadata Models (2024-10-06 - 2024-10-11) (Details)
- Forschungstreffen 25463: Metadata Models and Services Typologies in Digital Resource-Sharing Frameworks (2025-11-09 - 2025-11-14) (Details)
