[DDI-users] Issue 585

Mon May 20 09:53:05 EDT 2013

In fact I gave Arofan the same answer during the discussion of Spatial
Coverage. however, you see I am persuadable when it comes down to actually
having to create the external controlled vocabulary. I see no point in
doing this for "Country" in Organization/ContactInformation but do see it
as worthwhile in aupport of geographic definitions. :-)

Actually this does result in 2 ways of doing something, Note the element
"Country" in a SpatialCoverage would map to DublinCore "spatial" but would
be a limited subset of the DC element as it would a) contain ONLY a country
code and b) be limited to ISO 3166 options (2ch, 3ch, numeric).

Wendy

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Johan Fihn <johan.fihn at snd.gu.se> wrote:

>  Dear Wendy,****
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> The issue with the difficulties of having to create a
> GeographicLocationScheme + GeographicStructureScheme is something I brought
> up during the Q&A session on EDDI in Gothenburg. IIRC your answer then was
> to use the corresponding Dublin Core field instead. What I would like to
> say with this is the same as I said then. The current structure is way too
> complicated if all you want to do is say that a study covers e.g. Sweden or
> Germany. I am in full support of your suggested solution.****
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> *Från:* ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:
> ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] *För *Wendy Thomas
> *Skickat:* den 19 maj 2013 20:22
> *Till:* DDI Structural Reform Working Group.; Data Documentation
> Initiative Users Group; Alistair Hamilton
> *Ämne:* [DDI-users] Issue 585****
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> This is in regard to externalizing the enumerated set of country codes
> currently in DDI. Our intent is to externalize this list in a way that
> enforces use of ISO 3166 (2ch, 3ch, numeric) both current and former valid
> codes. ****
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>  ****
>
> NOTE REGARDING USAGE ETC.****
>
> In working out this issue I have discovered a) this is used ONLY by the
> field Country in the ContactInformation of an Organization or Individual,
> and b) there is no means of creating a simple country coverage list in
> Spatial Coverage. ****
>
> For the purposes of DDI 3.2 we seem to be talking overkill for a seldom
> used field. However, publishing the union set of ISO 2,3 char and numeric
> country codes seems a logical thing to do. It would provide an external
> authority list for individual GeographicLocation at the country level that
> was both stable and inclusive of earlier codes which have changed over
> time. (see Issue 585 for particulars)****
>
>  ****
>
> It also brings to mind Arofan's comment that one can't do a "simple"
> SpatialCoverage...I assume that would be a list of country codes as is
> possible in 2.5 without doing the full GeographicLocationScheme. ****
>
> If we are going to do the work for the external controlled vocabulary we
> should probably add the following to GeographicCoverageType right after
> Description:****
>
> <xs:element ref="Country" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>     <xs:annotation>
>         <xs:documentation>The identifier for the country level spatial
> coverage. If only a portion of a country is covered indicate the parent
> country. May be repeated to include multiple countries. The element uses a
> predefined external controlled vocabulary that allows for use of the ISO
> 3166-1 options of 2 character, 3 character, or numeric country codes. The
> DDI controlled vocabulary retains former country codes annotating them with
> valid dates and information on specific changes.</xs:documentation>
>     </xs:annotation>
> </xs:element>
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>  ****
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> Any thoughts on this?
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