From amber.leahey at utoronto.ca Mon Jun 26 11:31:45 2017 From: amber.leahey at utoronto.ca (Amber Leahey) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:31:45 +0000 Subject: [DDI-users] Dataverse - DDI development: variable tags question Message-ID: <13ED502B16C8B543AB47E5173AFDDF49010C069348@arborexmbx1p.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> Hi folks, We are trying to compile a list of DDI fields at the variable-level for recommended use in Dataverse http://dataverse.org . This could include variable tagging to improve system understanding for weighting, restricted data, visualization, etc. As well as variable metadata editing, including the ability to add and edit variable-level metadata in Dataverse. See Issue: 962 1. What DDI field would you use to tag variable data types? E.g. string, category, ordinal, nominal etc. What about weights, time, or geographic variables? a. What fields in DDI-Codebook or Lifecycle do you recommend? 2. Are there controlled vocabularies for this that can be used to further the structure around variable-level tagging in Dataverse? Many thanks for your help, apologies if this seems scattered I'm just starting the investigating and recommendation process. Best, Amber Leahey Data and GIS Librarian Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries 416 978 7217 amber.leahey at utoronto.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20170626/471a40da/attachment.html From larryhoyle at ku.edu Mon Jun 26 12:00:47 2017 From: larryhoyle at ku.edu (Hoyle, Larry) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:00:47 +0000 Subject: [DDI-users] Dataverse - DDI development: variable tags question In-Reply-To: <13ED502B16C8B543AB47E5173AFDDF49010C069348@arborexmbx1p.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> References: <13ED502B16C8B543AB47E5173AFDDF49010C069348@arborexmbx1p.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> Message-ID: <9f8d0896746a4b759034872f945f13c0@ex13-ell-cr-13.home.ku.edu> Should Dataverse metadata be able to produce a reasonably complete codebook description of a variable? The DDI4 notion of what is needed would be found here: http://lion.ddialliance.org/ddiobjects/instancevariable -- --- Larry From: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Amber Leahey Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 10:32 AM To: ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu Subject: [DDI-users] Dataverse - DDI development: variable tags question Hi folks, We are trying to compile a list of DDI fields at the variable-level for recommended use in Dataverse http://dataverse.org . This could include variable tagging to improve system understanding for weighting, restricted data, visualization, etc. As well as variable metadata editing, including the ability to add and edit variable-level metadata in Dataverse. See Issue: 962 1. What DDI field would you use to tag variable data types? E.g. string, category, ordinal, nominal etc. What about weights, time, or geographic variables? a. What fields in DDI-Codebook or Lifecycle do you recommend? 2. Are there controlled vocabularies for this that can be used to further the structure around variable-level tagging in Dataverse? Many thanks for your help, apologies if this seems scattered I'm just starting the investigating and recommendation process. Best, Amber Leahey Data and GIS Librarian Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries 416 978 7217 amber.leahey at utoronto.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/pipermail/ddi-users/attachments/20170626/1ac55ada/attachment.html From sandai at umich.edu Mon Jun 26 12:21:43 2017 From: sandai at umich.edu (Sanda Ionescu) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:21:43 -0400 Subject: [DDI-users] DDI-users Digest, Vol 141, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Amber. 1. For variable data types, in DDI-C you can use the attribute "intrvl" to indicate whether the variable is discrete or continuous, the attribute "type" to indicate whether your variable is character or numeric, and the attribute "category" to describe the kind of data represented, including date, time, currency, or "other". Other useful attributes are "wgt" to indicate whether the variable is a weight, and "dcml" to indicate the number of decimal points on a variable. 2. For lists of recommended elements, please see the section "Recommended elements sets" here: http://www.ddialliance.org/resources/ddi-profiles -- more specifically, the DDI-C Lite for DDI-C and the DDI-L 3.0 core for DDI-L. 3.The DDI Alliance has published a number of controlled vocabularies to be used with both flavors of DDI, more details about usage (including the appropriate fields) in the specs for each vocabulary. A list of available vocabularies, as well as documentation and links to downloads are available here: http://www.ddialliance.org/controlled-vocabularies. Thanks Sanda. Sanda Ionescu ICPSR University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Phone: 734-615-2932 On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Send DDI-users mailing list submissions to > ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.icpsr.umich.edu/mailman/listinfo/ddi-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ddi-users-request at icpsr.umich.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ddi-users-owner at icpsr.umich.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of DDI-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 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