[DDI-users] RE: Section 3 - File DescriptionInterpretation

[A. Michelle Edwards]

Hi Karen...

Thank you for your reply...

I'm not a librarian - but we do have someone at one of our partner
universities cataloguing our datasets.  They are not in the DDI format yet -
but hopefully in the future they will be...

Michelle


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Harker" <Karen.Harker at utsouthwestern.edu>
To: <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] RE: Section 3 - File DescriptionInterpretation


> While I have not yet implemented DDI, I can offer another perspective.
> Library catalogers have been creating metadata for centuries and the
> standard today is to describe the work "in-hand". This approach would
> agree with Sanda's recommendation.
>
> BTW, this leads to a question I had about the DDI community...are there
> any librarians and particularly library catalogers on this list? Are you
> charged with "cataloging" datasets? It just seems to be a logical use of
> human resources to hire someone who has been trained to analyze and
> describe "things" using standards.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >>> edwardsm at uoguelph.ca 4/26/2004 11:56:18 AM >>>
> Thanks Sanda...
>
> Is this how everyone else who has been working with the codebooks has
> been
> interpreting this section as well?  I'm just trying to get a consensus
> and a
> better understanding..
>
> Michelle
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sanda Ionescu" <sandai at icpsr.umich.edu>
> To: <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:48 PM
> Subject: [DDI-users] RE: Section 3 - File Description Interpretation
>
>
> >
> > >Hi, Michelle.
> >
> > Since the codebook you're creating is supposed to accompany the data
> file
> > that you are distributing to your own users,
> > I say in section 3 you should describe the data file in the format
> that
> you
> > are providing (i.e. SAS dataset file, in your example).
> >
> > Sanda.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Michelle Edwards [mailto:edwardsm at uoguelph.ca]
> > >Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:20 AM
> > >To: ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu
> > >Subject: [DDI-users] Section 3 - File Description Interpretation
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Good morning all!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >I was hoping someone could clarify the interpretation of Section 3
> of the
> > >DDI DTD.  Should this section be describing the original datafile
> that we
> > >receive as data providers?  OR the datafile that we create?  Let me
> explain
> > >a bit more...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >If I go to ICPSR and download a study - I will receive a datafile in
> a
> CSV
> > >format for example.  To make it accessible to my users at my
> institution
> I
> > >create a SAS dataset for our retrieval system.  When I create my
> DDI
> > >codebook - should I be referring to the CSV file or the SAS dataset
> file
> for
> > >Section 3?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks and have a great day!
> > >
> > >MIchelle
> > >
> > >___________________________________
> > >A. Michelle Edwards, Ph.D.
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