[DDI-users] Invitation to EDDI Sprint - Nov. 26-30, 2018

[Kelly Chatain]

Dear DDI Community,

This year I am very pleased to invite you to participate in a joint
Technical Committee and DDI 4 Development sprint to be held at DIW Berlin,
November 26-30, 2018. Participation is open to the entire DDI community and
is a great opportunity to contribute to the DDI standard. We would like to
encourage everyone to consider participating, even if you are unable to
attend all five days.

The work will fall into the following two, concurrent tracks with exchanges
and joint sessions planned where appropriate and as needed:

DDI Roadmap

   -

   Finalization of 3.3 based on review
   -

   Prepare COGS to accept 3.3 schema content and generate output
   -

      XML schema (this would be a future version)
      -

      UML model of 3.3 to reflect Moving Forward approach
      -

      Documentation infrastructure
      -

      OWL/RDF output
      -

   Evaluate differences between 3.3 and output from COGS
   -

   Transition paths between versions across DDI


DDI 4 Moving Forward Project

   -

   High-level and conceptual discussion on the direction of DDI 4 regarding
   content and modeling
   -

   Review of post-prototype issues and prototype public release feedback
   -

      Role of UML
      -

         Use of UML features
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         Refinement of modeling rules
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      Binding transformation rules
      -

      Role of Canonical XMI as an expression of the model
      -

   Plans for new production framework (COGS)
   -

      Production process entering content and COGS production line
      -

      Clarification of validation checks for entered content
      -

   Creation of an iteration cycle regarding modeling, representations, and
   prototype software implementation to ensure a robust specification on all
   of these levels.
   -

   Creation of validation suites on all of these levels and integration
   into the production framework
   -

   Structured documentation



Location and Travel Information for DIW Berlin.
<https://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.102305.en/about_us/diw_berlin/how_to_visit_us/how_to_visit_us.html>

Please let us know if you are interested in joining us, even if not
confirmed, and RSVP using this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf29Jb_09FTIBK4xKWo-_KaIh9L2j6vOTl01ONXjoOF6-uJLw/viewform?usp=sf_link>
by October 7, 2018. For questions, please contact Kelly Chatain (
kchatain at umich.edu). Note that there is a limited amount of funding
available for the meeting.  Funding guidelines and the request form
<http://www.ddialliance.org/alliance/funding-guidelines-and-request-form>
are available online..

Thank you for considering this invitation and we look forward to meeting
with you at Berlin!

Jared Lyle

Director, DDI Alliance

ICPSR, University of Michigan


-- 
Kelly Chatain
Associate Archivist
Survey Research Operations, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
734-647-2204 - phone
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