The DDI Alliance is pleased to announce that the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University has joined the Alliance. Ann Starkey will serve as the representative to the Expert Committee.
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The DDI Alliance has approved the latest version of the DDI specification, DDI 3.0, and the specification has now been officially published. The Alliance reviewed the specification and related use cases and implementations during the month of April and then voted to ratify DDI 3.0 officially. A Web page devoted to DDI 3.0 is available for those who are interested in learning more about the specification.
The latest version of the DDI specification, the DDI 3.0 Candidate Release Version 3, is now available. Until publication of DDI 3.0 in April 2008, some new versions of Candidate Release Version 3 may become available. They will be labeled as Candidate Release Version 3 but with different dates. A final version of the Candidate Release is scheduled for April 3, 2008, with official publication of DDI 3.0 scheduled for April 28, 2008
The latest version of the DDI specification, the DDI 3.0 Candidate Release version is now available. This version corrects some bugs discovered in the development of use cases. A final version of the Candidate Release is scheduled for the end of December, with official publication of DDI 3.0 scheduled for first quarter 2008.
The DDI Alliance has recently published a new brochure to be used in promoting the DDI initiative. The trifold brochure is in 8-1/2 by 11 format and a PDF version is available. The brochure is a product of the DDI Usability and Outreach Working Group and is targeted at a general audience to raise awareness of the DDI project. To order print copies for distribution, please contact ddi@ddialliance.org.
The first issue of the DDI newsletter called DDI Directions is also now available for download as a PDF file. The newsletter will be issued quarterly, and suggestions for content can be sent to Mary Vardigan, DDI Alliance Director, at vardigan@umich.edu.
GESIS is sponsoring a workshop on "Using DDI 3.0 to Support Preservation, Management, Access, and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data," to take place in Wadern, Germany, on October 24 - 26, 2007. Course Instructors are Arofan Gregory (Open Data Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA); Wendy L. Thomas (Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA); and Joachim Wackerow (GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany).
The latest version of the DDI specification, the DDI 3.0 Candidate Release version is now available, following a vote of the DDI Alliance at its annual meeting, held this year in Montreal, Quebec, on May 19.
The release of the Candidate Version signals the beginning of an Implementation Period not to exceed nine months during which developers can use the Candidate Version for software development. The specification will remain stable during this period, although bugs that are discovered should be reported and will be fixed. The Candidate Release period is tentatively scheduled to end early in 2008. The DDI Alliance requests that current and prospective implementers who are interested in working with the Candidate Version register with the DDI's Technical Implementation Committee (TIC).
The DDI Alliance has produced an updated Strategic Plan (PDF 149K) to provide guidance to the Alliance in coming years.
Two new members have joined the DDI Alliance, beginning July 1, 2007. The new members are University of Guelph (Michelle Edwards is the Expert Committee representative) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago (Eric Jodts is the representative). The Alliance extends a sincere welcome to these institutions and their representatives.
The Expert Committee of the DDI Alliance met in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday, May 27, 2006, following the IASSIST annual conference on the University of Michigan campus. Minutes of the meeting are now available.