[DDI-users] Stat/Transfer does DDI - setting the agency ID

[Stefan Kramer]

The section of the Stat/Transfer manual Achim found (thanks!) says:
"The specification requires that elements within the Schema be identified by an "agency". This is typically a url. By default it is "example.org", but you should change it to something more appropriate at Output Options(1) of the Options dialog box."
I wonder what best (or at least decent ;-) practice would be in an organization where there's a Stat/Transfer site license with potentially hundreds to thousand of independently acting users, like a university.

Try to set all installations to the agency ID registered for the organization - does that then imply that any DDI generated by any student, faculty, staff member (in the university case) is "by that organization"?  Is that the idea?

Create a "sub agency" as described at http://registry.ddialliance.org/Help?

Leave it as "example.org" and tell any users who wonder about that in their generated DDI [*] that ... it doesn't matter?

Set it something else that's made up and looks better than "example.org" but isn't registered?

Any thoughts and ideas welcome.

(This isn't, strictly speaking, a Stat/Transfer question - if, for example, Colectica Express or Designer were widely used at a university, the issue would be the same, I think.)

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Stefan Kramer
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[*] esp. because it occurs so frequently in the output.

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From: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Wackerow, Joachim [Joachim.Wackerow at gesis.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:48
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Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Stat/Transfer does DDI

Reading and writing should be possible of DDI 3.1.

Some more information is available on pages of Stat/Transfer. See:

Formats
http://www.stattransfer.com/stattransfer/formats.html#ddi

Manual
http://www.stattransfer.com/support/manual/index.html?hs1175

Reports on experiences are welcome.

Achim

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From: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Kramer
Sent: Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011 21:52
To: DDI-users at icpsr.umich.edu
Subject: [DDI-users] Stat/Transfer does DDI

>From http://www.stata.com/products/transfer.html:

“Stat/Transfer Version 11 has added support for the following formats:

 *   Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Schemas …”
Haven’t tried it yet.

Stefan Kramer
Research Data Management Librarian
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Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
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