DDI 3: Possibilities for Implementors (1st Session)

Background

• 3rd year in a row that a DDI 3 tools panel has been presented at IASSIST– 1st year: “People are really going to do it – it’s

not just talk!”– 2nd year: “Lots of people are really going to do

it – it’s not just talk – seriously!”– This year… “Which tools are there for me to

use?”

Scope

• This panel is not comprehensive – there are some other tools being presented here at IASSIST (Session D1 – Thursday 10:30)– Paul Lambert: A Data Curation Application

Using DDI: The DAMES Data Curation Tool– Alerk Amin: Building the Infrastructure for

Enhanced Publications Using DDI 3– Andias Wira-Alam: Implementing DDI 3: A

Case Study of the German Microcensus

First and Second Sessions

• First Session: Tools now available, or to be made available very soon– Some are commercial, some open source,

some available on other terms

• Second Session: Tools to be made available on a longer time-frame– Also addresses some common topics of

interest to all implementers, not only tools

Panel

• Colectica (Jeremy Ivreson, Dan Smith, Algenta)• DDI Editing at DDA (Jannik Vestergard Jensen, Danish

Data Archive)• DDI4RDC: Metadata framework for the Canadian RDC

Network (Pascal heus, Metadata Technology)• Documenting and Disseminating Longitudinal Data

Online with DDI 3 (Alerk Amin, CentERdata, Tilburg University)

• XSLT and DDI: Using Metadata to Drive Data Capture and Processing (Samuel Spencer, Australian Bureau of Statistics)

Final Note

• At the DDI Expert Committee meeting, a further commitment was made to enhancing and maintaining the DDI Tools database