[DDI-SRG] [disco] issues on missing values for numeric response domain and on conceptual variable

[Wackerow, Joachim]

Benjamin Zapilko and I are currently reviewing the open issues of Disco. The goal is to resolve the issues and to prepare Disco finally for publication.

Now I have questions on two issues:

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There is an issue on how to describe missing values for a numeric response domain.
Details and my comment see at https://github.com/linked-statistics/disco-spec/issues/130.

My question:
Is there really missing something in Disco? I don't have the impression. But maybe I misunderstood something.

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The other issue is that the conceptual variable of DDI 3.2 does not exist in Disco.
The hierarchy is only Variable, RepresentedVariable, skos:Concept.
Details and my comment see at https://github.com/linked-statistics/disco-spec/issues/226.

The whole approach of Disco is to focus on a simple subset of DDI Codebook and DDI Lifecycle for Discovery purposes. It is not a 1:1 representation.

My question:
Is it really important to be able to search for the ConceptualVariable in addition to Variable, RepresentedVariable, and Concept.
Is this addition really worth it? This might result in some work for Disco.
Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thanks
Achim


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