<div dir="ltr"><div>Are you working in DDI 3.2 or asking in regard to 4? </div><div><br></div><div>This issue in 3.x is that an object is unique within its parent maintainable and therefore to retain the same parent it would have to be in the same scheme (different version).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If the object is unique at the agency level then it can pretty well live where it wants to. </div><div><br></div><div>Wendy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Wackerow, Joachim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Joachim.Wackerow@gesis.org" target="_blank">Joachim.Wackerow@gesis.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m wondering if a new version of a QuestionItem needs to be in the same QuestionScheme as the old version or can the new version be in a different QuestionScheme.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The use case is that a question of an old study could be used in a new study with a slightly changed question text, basically a time-related adaption of the wording. It wouldn’t make sense to add a new version to the old question scheme,
because this set of metadata is just archived.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is this possible:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QuestionScheme old - ddi:urn:de.agency_A:id_11:1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> QuestionItem - ddi:urn:de.agency_A:id_12:1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QuestionScheme current - ddi:urn:de.agency_A:id_521:1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> QuestionItemReference ddi:urn:de.agency_A:id_12:1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> QuestionItem - ddi:urn:de.agency_A:id_12:2<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any comments welcome,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Achim<u></u><u></u></p>
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