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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Greetings and Salutations!</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">On behalf of the DDI4 Project Management Group, I would like to invite you to join the effort in making the DDI4 prototype a success by contributing your expertise in producing documentation for the release (mid-2018).</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Specifically, we will be producing: </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"></p><ul style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A high-level overview document describing the model, how it functions, and how it fits into the DDI Alliance work products. This will include the definition and description of the views.<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Class-level descriptions in Drupal that include language about examples.<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Individual document for each use case to include description and method/rationale along with an example in xml:<br></font></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Codebook</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Simple questionnaire and flow</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Non-question based data (various sources)</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Data description (various formats)</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Data processing/transformation (various processes)</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Statistical classification</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Geographic classification</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Archived study/study description</font></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"></p><ul style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mapping to DDI v2.5<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mapping to DDI v3.2 (or v3.3?)<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mapping to GSIM v1.1<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">RDF-S/OWL Vocabulary<br></font></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">In short, we have a lot of work to do, so the more the merrier! If you are interested in participating, we would appreciate a time commitment of bi-weekly meetings over the course of two-to-three months (mid-Feb to early-May) with the majority of the work completed from late February through early April. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">You are also invited to a three-day work meeting prior to the NADDI Conference this year in Washington, D.C., April 2-4. There is a one day of overlap with the NADDI workshops on April 4th, so if you are unavailable that day, we would welcome you for two days instead of three. This meeting would be focused on the review of the completed documentation and organization. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">If you would like to join us, please send an email to Kelly Chatain, project manager for the DDI 4 Prototype Release, at <a href="mailto:kchatain@umich.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">kchatain@umich.edu</span></a>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you!!!</font></p>

<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Kelly Chatain</div><div>Associate Archivist</div><div>Survey Research Operations, Institute for Social Research</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>734-647-2204 - phone</div></div>
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