[DDI-users] Re: use of source attribute

[Sanda Ionescu]

Hi, Elizabeth.
When your nested elements have different sources (some provided by the 
producer, and some by the archive) there really are only two options for 
filling in this attribute in the "parent" element - either you specify the 
dominant source (that has provided most of the information) or you leave 
the attribute empty. Obviously, none of these solutions is perfect, and the 
choice is really yours. You need to be aware though that if you go with the 
second option, some browsers will automatically display the default, which 
is "producer". This is exactly what happened in the example you're citing 
from study 6084, where we did not fill in the source attribute (as far as I 
remember) and "producer" is being displayed by default.

Sanda.

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>Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:17:25 -0500
>From: Elizabeth Bennett <ezb@Princeton.EDU>
>To: ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu
>Subject: [DDI-users] More questions about source attribute
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>How do other DDI users handle the source= attribute in nested elements?
>I'm especially interested in what you do when there are nested elements
>with different attributes. For example, suppose you are marking up the
>Data Access section. Some of the elements in this section are provided
>by you (archive) and some by the PI for the study (producer). What
>attribute would you use for the entire Data Access section, which
>contains information from both archive and producer?
>
><dataAccs source="????">
>         <setAvail source="archive"></setAvail>
>         <useStmt source="producer"></useStmt>
></dataAccs>
>
>Also, in the sample codebook at 6084rev.xml (CBS News Poll #2), I see
>that some fields that were clearly provided by ICPSR are nonetheless
>tagged source="producer". But shouldn't these by source="archive"? I'm
>thinking of e.g. <verResp source="producer">Mary Vardian, ICPSR
>Editor</verResp>. This information presumably wasn't provided by CBS
>News, so why is it tagged source="producer"?
>
>I'm sorry if these are basic questions, but I'm truly puzzled by them
>and will appreciate your help.
>
>--Elizabeth Bennett, CPANDA
>ezb@princeton.edu
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Sanda Ionescu
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