DDI Publications

Below are DDI-related publications, presentations, posters, working papers, and workshops. If you know about content not already listed, please see our Add Publications page.

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How Initiative Benefits the Research Community - the Data Documentation Initiative
Miller K, Vardigan M.  2005.  How Initiative Benefits the Research Community - the Data Documentation Initiative. First International Conference on e-Social Science.

This paper describes the development, establishment and adoption of an international XML-based standard for the content, presentation, transport, and preservation of documentation for datasets in the social and behavioural sciences. It...
1042.
Bring your tables to the Web
1043.
Strengths and weaknesses of the DDI Aggregate Data Extension in directly driving an on-line data visualisation system
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Inside view of DDI Version 3.0: Structural Reform Group report
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DDI Comparative Data Working Group: introduction and status
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Fitting the life course of the General Social Survey Cycle 17 in the Data Documentation Initiative
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The Data Documentation Initiative: The Value and Significance of a Worldwide Standard

Effective secondary analysis of social science data requires good documentation. Especially because Internet access has become standard, the problems of reading and understanding the contents of data files have become acute. Resolving these...
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DDI 101: Codebook Creation for Beginners
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A DTD for Qualitative Data: Extending the DDI to Mark-up the Content of Non-numeric Data
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Can DDI Records Be Accurately Transformed to Catalog-ready MARC 21 Format?