Wendy Thomas DDI Technical Implementation Committee TIC DDI

Wendy Thomas – DDI Technical Implementation Committee (TIC) DDI SPECIFICATION: CURRENT STATUS AND OUTLOOK

DDI - Codebook Recently approved – will be officially published soon Incorporates new metadata needed to capture portions of the GSBPM Adds features that will facilitate automated translation to DDI-Lifecycle Supports XHTML, qualified Dublin Core, and Controlled Vocabularies

DDI Lifecycle Identification Issue Broad range of requirements Thanks to all who contributed to the discussion Clearer model of an identifiable object in terms of its administrative and payload content Increased flexibility in supporting various implementations of DDI White paper covering the issue and solution will be published prior to 3. 2

DDI 3. 2: review January 2012 Range of consistency corrections International strings Question structures Representations Simplified Organization Scheme Corrected Data Relationship and Statistics Revised Geographic Structure and Location to make it truly reusable

Working process and input Identify an integrated system for bug tracking, commenting, discussion, and subversion Provide access for direct submission of bugs and commenting on bugs, discussions, and solutions Continue to support a subversion site for development versions of DDI

Contacts TIC ddi-srg@icpsr. umich. edu Wendy Thomas – TIC Chair wlt@umn. edu Achim Wackerow – Vice Chair Arofan Gregory – Technical Consultant Pascal Heus Jeremy Iverson Dan Smith