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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Guillaume,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Apologies for this delayed response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I spoke with Gina-Qian Cheung, Chief Technology Officer of Survey Research Operations Technical Services at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Gina headed up the development of the MQDS software. She said that MQDS-type functionality is part of the Blaise 5 features list, but she doesn’t know the timetable for that. Gina also said that SRO would be willing to share the MQDS schema if people are interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your inquiry. It’s great to hear about your metadata repository.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ddi-users-bounces@icpsr.umich.edu [mailto:ddi-users-bounces@icpsr.umich.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Duffes Guillaume<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 05, 2012 9:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [DDI-users] DDI-L & Blaise<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>Insee, the French National Statistical Institute, has started a project aiming at building a metadata repository. We have been working on the specification of social survey questionnaires in DDI. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>In this context, the question of the crosswalk between DDI and the Blaise datamodels (that are currently used for our CAPI questionnaires) has quickly arisen.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>We are aware of tools, such as Colectica and MQDS bridging the gap between DDI and Blaise, but we are wondering what kind of governance structure underpins and endorses this mapping?<span style='color:blue'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>In the same line of thinking, as <span style='color:black'>a</span><span style='color:blue'> </span>National Statiscal Institute, it would certainly be of great benefit to get to an articulated scheme of versioning between Blaise and DDI (especially in the light of the upcoming Blaise 5 and DDI 3.2) in fine. What is the DDI Alliance's stance on that? <span style='color:blue'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>Thank you very much for your help.<span style='color:blue'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:blue'>Guillaume Duffes</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:blue'>(33)141175278</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:blue'>INSEE (French National Statiscal Institute)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:blue'>France</span><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:blue'> <img id="_x0000_i1025" src="outbind://8-000000006B41099322E0874983D027E1D4B83E8E44462200/No%20AttachName" alt="Image Microsoft Photo Editor 3.0"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>