DDI 3: Possibilities for Implementors (1 st Session)

Background 3 rd year in a row that a DDI 3 tools panel has been presented at IASSIST –1 st year: “People are really going to do it – it’s not just talk!” –2 nd 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