[DDI-users] Re: [DDI-SRG] When the Author of a DDI isn't the Archive

[Wendy Thomas]

Mark,

There are currently 3 sections that identify the source, intellectual
content and current XML instance in the DDI. Section 1.1 describes the
current document. If all your system is doing is importing an extant XML
instance verbatim then generally the only thing that would change in this
section is the holdings and deposit information. If you are creating an
XML instance from another source this it the section you would use to
record the "authorship" of the XML version. Your source documents would go
in section 1.2. This would include an XML version where you made changes
or incorporated additional materials when importing an XML. The original
XML would be cited in section 1.2. Section 2.1 provides the citation for
the original study (concept data collection process etc.).

As Reto suggests this seems inadequate for documenting the modular and
sub-modular level changes occuring in a life cycle model. It is the
primary reason for providing the reusable class "citation" to allow for
tracking the provinance and source of descrete pieces of information.
There is a need to track the path the XML followed to get to its present
state. This should be kept in the "archive" module as it is dynamic in
nature and varies archive by archive. Right now this module is not well
defined. It is definately something that uses will need to hammer on a bit
when testing out the proposed 3.0 structure.

Wendy



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