[DDI-users] Dataverse - DDI development: variable tags question

[Hoyle, Larry]

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



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From: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Amber Leahey
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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<https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/962#issuecomment-310900929>


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<mailto:amber.leahey at utoronto.ca>

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