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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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Metadata Specification

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international program to produce a metadata specification for the description of social science data resources. The program was initiated in 1994 by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and...
1072.
The Metadata Toolbox: A User's Perspective on DDI
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DDI: The Data Documentation Initiative – An Introduction to the Standard and its Role in Social Science Data Access
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ICPSR's Use of DDI
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Leveraging Gains in Metadata-based Knowledge Management and Data Access Systems: The DAIS NESSTAR Project
1076.
DDI as a Communication Protocol

The development of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) has begun at an opportune time in the evolving life of the web. The inexpensive telecommunications...
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Using DDI Extensions as Intermediary for Data Storage and Data Display
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Using DDI Extensions as an Intermediary for Data Storage and Data Display
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Behind the Curtains of DDI, Why Not a Relational Metadatabase?

The initiative taken in 1995, to develop a new format for metadata, was an important one and the scheme we work with at present, in its XML tenure, very...
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Tabular Data in DDI 1.1