[DDI-users] Reminder - Final month of DDI4 Prototype Review

[Wendy Thomas]

*Reminder that this is the last month of the review period for DDI4
Prototype. Please submit your comments by 31, March 2019. We appreciate
general comments as well as specific issues and both can be filed in JIRA
(see below). Wendy Thomas, Chair, DDI Technical
Committee***************************************Dear colleagues,Last
December we provided an update
<http://www.ddialliance.org/announcement/update-on-ddi-work-product-development>
about development of DDI work products to express continued support for our
stable work products <http://www.ddialliance.org/explore-documentation> --
including DDI-Codebook (DDI 2) and DDI-Lifecycle (DDI 3) -- and to
communicate a mid-2018 prototype release of a new work product called DDI
4.We’re happy to announce the prototype release of DDI 4.  This preliminary
version is not intended for production but provides an opportunity to test
and provide feedback on how the DDI 4 model describes and documents some
basic research material, such as a dataset, an instrument, and a codebook.
 DDI 4 is based on an information model that can be expressed in different
technologies, including standard RDF vocabularies and XML structures. This
form of model-based standard is a best practice in the standardization
world, and several other domains have used this approach for years to
structure their domain-specific standards. The development of DDI 4 will
enable the standard to stay abreast of current technological changes and
guarantee alignment across different technology implementations. More
details about the history and origin of DDI 4 can be found on the “Work
Products of the DDI Alliance” web page
<http://www.ddialliance.org/about/work-products-of-ddi-alliance>.We look
forward to the DDI community testing this prototype release and providing
constructive feedback on its future development. Links to the specification
and use cases, as well as instructions for comment, are found at: DDI 4
Comment and Review Page
<https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/491666/DDI+4+-+Comment+and+Review>We
would love to have as much feedback as possible for our next development
meeting on November 26th, but the comment period will extend beyond that.
We hope to hear from you!  Please feel free to contact
ddisecretariat at umich.edu <ddisecretariat at umich.edu> with questions.Jared
LyleDirector, DDI AllianceICPSR, University of Michigan+1
734-763-6075lyle at umich.edu <lyle at umich.edu>*

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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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