[DDI-users] New ODaF papers on DDI in NSIs and metadata models for Open Government

Pascal Heus pascal.heus at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 12:34:19 EDT 2011


*** Apologies for any cross posting ***

Dear all:
We have recently published a couple of white papers concerning the
growing interest in DDI among National Statistical Institutes and the
issues in Open Government about the use of standard metadata models in
combination with RDF-based technologies and standards.  Visit the ODaF
web site at http://odaf.org/?lvl1=resources&lvl2=papers or see below for
more information. Comments/feedback most welcomed.
best
Arofan Gregory, Pascal Heus,  Rob Grim
ODaF Executive Managers

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*"The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI): An Introduction for National
Statistical Institutes",
*/Arofan Gregory, Open Data Foundation, Jul 2011/
http://odaf.org/papers/DDI_Intro_forNSIs.pdf
This paper introduces DDI to those coming from national statistics
institutes (NSIs). While there is a large amount of information
regarding DDI available today, sometimes it is difficult to know where
to start, and much of it comes from domains which are not familiar to
those working with official statistics. Here, we attempt to characterize
the flavors and uses of DDI, give some general background on the
standards organization (the DDI Alliance), describe available tools, and
relate the DDI to other initiatives and standards which are more
familiar to this audience.

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*"Open Data and Metadata Standards: Should We Be Satisfied with 'Good
Enough'?"
*/Arofan Gregory, Open Data Foundation, Jun 2011/
http://odaf.org/papers/Open%20Data%20and%20Metadata%20Standards.pdf
This paper provides a brief description of how the collaboration between
open government initiatives, the Linked Data/RDF community, and experts
in the field of statistics and research data management could
significantly improve the usability of quantitative government data on
the Web.



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