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

[Wendy Thomas]

Stefan,

I think this is a better suggestion than what is currently contained.
In particular, "org" is not a valid first level extention of a DDI
agency. Rather than anything that looks like a URL such as the .org
example below, something like "agency.RegisteredDDI". Part of this
will hing on whether we provide a regExp for the agency name in the
DDI Schema. If so, it should be something that parses. We should make
StatTransfer aware of this issue but may wish to complete the DDI
Idenficiation discussion before suggesting an alternative.

Wendy

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Stefan Kramer
<stefan.kramer at cornell.edu> wrote:
> I expect others from the DDI Alliance will weigh in here, but a problem I see with "example.org" as the placeholder is that it may suggest (to the Stat/Transfer user, or sysadmin configuring Stat/Transfer site-wide) that that string should simply be replaced with another Internet domain name, like "cornell.edu" or "dda.dk" or what have you, when it's really supposed to be a DDI agency ID, which is different - as in the example of "gesis.org" (domain name) vs. "de.gesis" (DDI agency ID).  I wonder whether there would be a case for making the placeholder registry.ddialliance.org or somethink else controlled by the DDI Alliance that could then make something useful happen if the placeholder wasn't changed?  Again, I believe this doesn't only affect Stat/Transfer, but also Algenta's Colectica suite of products suppoting DDI 3.
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> Stefan Kramer
> stefan.kramer at cornell.edu
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> From: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dubnoff [sdubnoff at circlesys.com]
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>  Set it something else that's made up and looks better than "example.org" but isn't registered?
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> Any thoughts and ideas welcome.
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> (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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> Hello All:
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> I am the developer of Stat/Transfer's DDI support and I welcome comments and suggestions on our implementation.  For one, if someone has a better idea for a default than "example.org", do let us know.
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> Best,
>
> Steve
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