[DDI-users] converting from DDI 2

[Jane Fry]

Thanks for that question, Libbie.
It is also something I have been looking for.
And than you all for your replies.
Something to work on in the New year!

Cheers,

Jane

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Wendy Thomas <wlt at umn.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> Mary has sent me the URN for a listing of various mappings. I'm sharing
> the gift...
>
> http://www.ddialliance.org/metadata-resources
>
> Wendy
>
> 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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Jane Fry, MA, MLIS
Data Specialist
Data Centre, MacOdrum Library
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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