[DDI-users] Crosswalk Bettwen DDI and MODS/METS

[Zenk-Möltgen, Wolfgang]

Dear Minglu,
concerning your question about metadata schemes for archiving social science data I'd like to recommend to look at the da|ra metadate schema available here:
dara metadata schema: http://www.gesis.org/dara/en/home/technical-information/dara-metadata/
dara Homepage http://www.gesis.org/dara/en/home/?lang=en
( a German working paper is available at http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/forschung/publikationen/gesis_reihen/gesis_arbeitsberichte/WorkingPapers_2011-14.pdf )

The da|ra project is part of the DataCite community that registers DOI Names for research datasets. The DataCite metadata schema is found here:
http://schema.datacite.org/
In the DataCIte documents you will find a DataCite to DDI mapping in the appendix (e.g. http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-2.2/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.2.pdf ) However, the DataCite metadata schema does not contain social science specific information.

We also have an updated version of the dara metadata schema (corresponding to DataCite 2.2), but we are still working on the DDI mapping of it. If you are interested, I can make it available to you in before we publish it.
Best,
Wolfgang





Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Datenarchiv für Sozialwissenschaften (DAS)
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln

E-Mail: wolfgang.zenk-moeltgen at gesis.org<mailto:wolfgang.zenk-moeltgen at gesis.org>
URL: http://www.gesis.org/

Tel. +49 (0)221 47694-0
Tel. +49 (0)221 47694-450


Von: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] Im Auftrag von Minglu Wang
Gesendet: Montag, 30. Januar 2012 23:45
An: ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu
Betreff: [DDI-users] Crosswalk Bettwen DDI and MODS/METS

Dear DDI User Community,

Our institution is trying to develop the data repository and use our current Fedora based digital repository, which is using MODS as the metadata standard.

I am writing to ask is there metadata crosswalk documentation already developed between DDI 3 and MODS or METS? Would you please give me some guidance on that?

I have found one from the the VDCIntegration Wiki (http://pledge.mit.edu/index.php/VDCIntegration), but only very brief DDI fields were mapped. Are there more detailed mapping developed?

Also, how DDI is comparable for using in archiving science data? Are there research/practice on the topic? If an institutional data repository is trying to develop its metadata standard in order to be able archive research data in both social sciences and sciences subjects, what would you suggest on that?

Thank you!
--
Minglu Wang
Data Services Librarian
John Cotton Dana Library
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
185 University Avenue
Newark, New Jersey 07102-1814

Telephone: (973)353-3810
Email: minglu at rutgers.edu<mailto:minglu at rutgers.edu>


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