[DDI-users] converting from DDI 2

[Wendy Thomas]

sorry my mail hiccuped and sent without this last piece:

Web development team
Michael Iannaccone, ICPSR (Chair)
Olof Olsson, Swedish National Data Service (SND)
Stephanie Roth, Swedish National Data Service (SND)

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Wendy Thomas <wlt at umn.edu> wrote:

> Hi Libbie!
>
> There is a spreadsheet that maps 2.1 elements to the 3.0 version of DDI-L.
> While there have been changes in later versions they have mostly been
> additions and while individual objects may have been modified, the mapping
> is similar overall. I don't see this spreadsheet on the DDI site and will
> look up a copy and send it to the list. As you proceed with this work,
> please get back to me with any specific questions. I'm happy to help. I'll
> be off-line for a few weeks but will be back on 5 January.
>
> BTW any time you encounter specific broken links on the DDI page please
> inform the Web Development Team. The current members are
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Libbie Stephenson <
> libbiesarchive at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> this is a really low-level inquiry.  We have been using DDI 2 for some
>> time because most of our files are legacy files with just one simple
>> dataset and codebook.  We've been using Colectica for Excel recently.  Now
>> we want to begin to work with DDI life cycle.
>>
>> We have spent a lot of time with the legacy to life-cycle chart and now
>> our eyes are crossed. We have reviewed the working papers and we know what
>> kind of information we want to record.
>>
>> What we really want is to be able to have a list of the tags we currently
>> use and have something that will show us exactly where they are used in
>> live-cycle.  We are using Colectica Designer to move the DDI legacy XML
>> over.  We have spent a lot of time with the items on this page:
>> http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/ and with a conversion tool but
>> none of them provide what we want to see.
>>
>> Also, the DDI site has numerous broken links or pages simply will not
>> load.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way that we can more easily see the ways that our
>> current use of DDI legacy would map into DDI life-cycle?
>>
>> --
>> Libbie Stephenson, Director
>> UCLA Social Science Data Archive
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> Box 951484
>> Los Angeles, CA. 90095-1484
>> 310-825-0716
>> libbie at ucla.edu
>> http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da
>>
>> …[L]arge efforts are generally plagued by stupidity, error and
>> corruption. But by the sheer act of stumbling forward, it’s possible,
>> sometimes, to achieve important things. David Brooks, NY Times
>>
>> When I was young and naïve, I believed that important people took
>> positions based on careful consideration of the options. Now I know better.
>> Paul Krugman, NY Times
>>
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>
> --
> Wendy L. Thomas                              Phone: +1 612.624.4389
> Data Access Core Director                 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
> Minnesota Population Center             Email: wlt at umn.edu
> University of Minnesota
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>



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Wendy L. Thomas                              Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director                 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center             Email: wlt at umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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