Wendy Thomas – DDI Technical Implementation Committee (TIC)

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  Wendy Thomas – TIC Chair  Achim Wackerow – Vice Chair  Arofan Gregory – Technical Consultant  Pascal Heus  Jeremy Iverson  Dan Smith